MRI: Acquisition of Gas fluxes and Analyzers to Strengthen Interdisciplinary Research and Education at Murray State University

MRI：采购气体通量和分析仪以加强默里州立大学的跨学科研究和教育

• 批准号: 2215877
• 负责人: Bassil El-Masri
• 金额: $ 29.79万
• 依托单位: Murray State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Gas; fluxes; Analyzers

An award is made to Murray State University (MSU) to study the effects of changing climate on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in wetland and upland ecosystems. Given the climatic importance of the production and consumption of GHGs on land, this project will raise public awareness in protecting the local environment through monitoring and model development. The project will improve infrastructure at MSU for multidisciplinary research, training, and teaching of MSU students. This infrastructure will allow MSU faculty to conduct innovative research and increase student participation in cutting edge scientific inquiry. The system acquired through this research will be integrated into the curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate courses, including 6 courses being taught by the project team across the Earth and Environmental Sciences and Biology Departments, to provide enhanced training and teaching activities for more than 100 MSU students each year. The acquisition of the equipment will strengthen the project team abilities to attract women, first generation, and underrepresented students to the field and provide them with opportunities to strengthen their research skills and foster the development of successful future scientists. The research results will be disseminated to the public through web-based interactive activities in local farmer’s markets and MSU national public radio to help the public understand the carbon cycle.The equipment supported by this project will allow for real-time analysis of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere of GHGs exchanges including canopy carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and methane (CH4), and soil CO2, H2O, CH4, and nitrogen oxide (N2O). The soil CO2, O2, and CH4 sensors, co-located with gas analyzer systems and installed at different depths, yields insight into below ground reactions that produce or consume GHG. This integrated system will be used on research projects ranging from plant physiology, ecology, climate change to combined soil-vegetation atmosphere interactions. Specifically, the system will be used to address questions related to climate change effects on GHG exchange in a wetland ecosystem, soil greenhouse emissions in hydric soils, tree stem CH4 and N2O emissions, and variability of soil greenhouse gasses concentrations. The acquisition will allow the project team to conduct cutting-edge research projects that would be otherwise impossible at MSU. It will elevate student active learning and research experience and faculty research productivity.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.

默里州立大学 (MSU) 获得了一项研究气候变化对湿地和高地生态系统温室气体 (GHG) 排放的影响的奖项，鉴于陆地上温室气体的生产和消耗对气候的重要性，该项目将提高公众的认识。该项目将改善密歇根州立大学学生多学科研究、培训和教学的基础设施，使密歇根州立大学教师能够开展创新研究，并提高学生对前沿科学探究的参与度。 .系统获取通过这项研究将被纳入本科生和研究生课程中，其中包括项目团队在地球、环境科学和生物系教授的 6 门课程，每年为 100 多名 MSU 学生提供强化的培训和教学活动购买这些设备将增强项目团队吸引女性、第一代和代表性不足的学生进入该领域的能力，并为他们提供加强研究技能和培养成功的未来科学家的机会。研究成果将得到传播。向公众通过在当地农贸市场和密歇根州立大学国家公共广播电台开展基于网络的互动活动，帮助公众了解碳循环。该项目支持的设备将能够实时分析温室气体交换的土壤-植被-大气，包括冠层二氧化碳(CO2)、水 (H2O) 和甲烷 (CH4)，以及土壤 CO2、H2O、CH4 和氮氧化物 (N2O) 土壤 CO2、O2 和 CH4 传感器，与气体分析系统位于同一位置并安装在不同的深度，可以深入了解产生或消耗温室气体的地下反应。该集成系统将用于从生理学、生态学、植物气候变化到土壤-植被大气相互作用的研究项目。具体来说，该系统将用于解决气候变化对湿地生态系统中温室气体交换的影响、含水土壤中的土壤温室气体排放、树干甲烷和氧化亚氮排放以及土壤温室气体浓度变化等相关问题。允许项目团队开展在密歇根州立大学不可能实现的尖端研究项目，这将提高学生的主动学习和研究经验以及教师的研究生产力。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用评估来支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。