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）的新受控环境设施提供资金，这将为扩大植物和土壤过程以及微生物与植物和动物相互作用的研究提供新的能力。全球变化是一种多因素现象，使得研究生物体和生态系统如何应对未来的变化变得更具挑战性，需要能够同时控制多个相关环境驱动因素的设施来解决相关的全球变化问题。支持广泛的研究和教育主题包括气候变化和人类土地利用对陆地和水生生态系统的影响、土壤和沉积物温室气体释放的控制、光合作用进化的研究、植物和动物微生物组的研究以及代谢研究该设施将供教师、访问科学家和学生使用，该项目将安装两个配备最先进温度、二氧化碳、湿度和环境的新 Conviron 生长室。两个新的生长室还将配备新的照明系统，以便远程监控生长室和实验，通过将三台压缩机移到室外，可以大大改善房间的噪音。为了研究微生物活动的环境控制，该项目还将安装 Coy 厌氧室，以便准备需要严格厌氧条件的厌氧微生物培养物和实验。该厌氧室将为各种工作提供新的能力。通过将三台压缩机（两个新生长室的压缩机和一个现有生长室的压缩机）移至室外，MBL 的厌氧微生物将得到极大改善，从而大大降低了房间内的噪音。生长室已被大量用于从高中到博士水平的各级教育，学生将继续使用新设施。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用评估被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。