Controlled Environment Facilities for the Marine Biological Laboratory

海洋生物实验室受控环境设施

• 批准号: 2128820
• 负责人: Anne Giblin
• 金额: $ 43.7万
• 依托单位: Marine Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2128820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Controlled; Environment; Facilities; Marine; Biological

This project will provide funds for new controlled environment facilities at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL - https://www.mbl.edu). This will provide new capabilities to expand research on plant and soil processes, and microbial interactions with plants and animals. Global change is a multi-factor phenomenon making the study of how organisms and ecosystems will respond to future changes all the more challenging. Facilities which can simultaneously control multiple relevant environmental drivers are needed to address relevant global change questions. These facilities will be used to support research and education on a broad array of topics, which include the effects of climate change and human land use on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, controls on greenhouse gas release from soils and sediments, studies on the evolution of photosynthesis, studies on the microbiome of plants and animals, and investigations into the metabolic capabilities of microbial communities and microbes living in extreme environments. The facility will be used by faculty, visiting scientists and students. The project will install two new Conviron growth chambers equipped with state of the art temperature, CO2, humidity, and lighting systems to replace older systems. The two new chambers will also be equipped with a new control system allowing for remote monitoring of the chambers and experiments. The room housing the new growth chambers will be greatly improved by moving three compressors outside, reducing the noise in the room. For studies of environmental controls over microbial activities the project will also include the installation of a Coy anaerobic chamber enabling preparation of anaerobic microbial cultures and experiments requiring strict anaerobic conditions. This chamber will enable new capacity for diverse work with anaerobic microbes year-round at the MBL. The room housing the new growth chambers will be greatly improved by moving three compressors (those for the two new chambers, and one for an existing chamber) outside, greatly reducing the noise in the room. MBL’s growth chambers have been heavily used for education at all levels, from high school to Ph.D. level work and students will continue to have access to the new facilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将为海洋生物实验室（MBL -https：//www.mbl.edu）提供新的受控环境设施的资金。这将为扩展有关植物和土壤过程的研究以及与动植物的微生物相互作用提供新的功能。全球变化是一种多因素现象，可以研究生物和生态系统如何应对未来的变化。需要轻松控制多个相关环境驱动因素的设施可以解决相关的全球变更问题。这些设施将用于支持各种各样的主题研究和教育，包括气候变化和人类土地使用对陆地和水生生态系统的影响，对光合作用和沉积物的温室气体释放的控制，对光合作用的研究的研究，对植物和动物，动物的微生物组，对微生物和微生物的微生物的研究研究，对微生物的生命以及微生物的生命群体和微生物群体进行了研究。该设施将由教师，访问科学家和学生使用。该项目将安装两个新的Conviron增长室，配备有最先进的温度，二氧化碳，湿度和照明系统，以替代较旧的系统。这两个新室还将配备一个新的控制系统，允许对腔室和实验进行远程监视。通过将三个压缩机移到外面，降低房间的噪音，将大大改善包含新的生长室的房间。为了研究微生物活动的环境控制，该项目还将包括安装coy厌氧室，以制备厌氧微生物培养物以及需要严格厌氧条件的实验。该腔室将使潜水员全年在MBL上与厌氧微生物一起工作。在外面移动三个压缩机（两个新房间的压缩机（一个用于现有房间的压缩机）将大大降低房间中的噪音，将大大改善新的生长室的房间。从高中到博士学位，MBL的成长室在各个层面上都被大量用于教育。级别的工作和学生将继续访问新设施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。