CAREER: From Substrate to Surface: Quantifying the Impact of Aquatic Vegetation on Exchange Processes

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项目编号	1753200
	CAREER: From Substrate to Surface: Quantifying the Impact of Aquatic Vegetation on Exchange Processes
	Rafael Omar Tinoco Lopez
主持机构	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
项目开始年	2018
	2018-05-15
项目结束日期	2023-04-30
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Continuing grant
项目经费	104257(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	This project seeks to understand the effects of flow and vegetation on gas transfer in natural waters, from the water-sediment interface to the water surface. Understanding such processes, from substrate to surface, will allow development of process-based models for management and restoration of wetlands, estuaries, and vegetated coastal areas, and will inform models of global greenhouse gas fluxes in natural waters. The research effort addresses challenges at the interface of Geomorphology, Ecology, and Fluid Dynamics. It is coupled with an education and outreach plan that will foster a STEM-oriented, school-to-college pipeline for at-risk young boys; and will develop advanced but accessible educational material for Universities, agencies, and policy makers dealing with floodplains, wetlands, and coastal areas worldwide. The project seeks integration of the various impacts of aquatic ecosystems in sediment and oxygen dynamics in natural waters. An extensive experimental study, using quantitative flow imaging, acoustic, and optical sensors, will fully characterize coupled water-air-vegetation-sediment interactions, by monitoring turbulent flows, sediment-oxygen demand, and their impact on gas transfer. The four unique, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities to be used will recreate unidirectional and oscillatory flow conditions at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, representative of streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. 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.
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/72611
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rafael Omar Tinoco Lopez.CAREER: From Substrate to Surface: Quantifying the Impact of Aquatic Vegetation on Exchange Processes.2018.