. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. R2 Annual Report. For more than a decade, MBL scientists have led a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project on the arctic tundra around Toolik Lake in Alaska. In 1997. scientists at the Center secured another LTER project grant of nearly $ million over six years from the National Science Foundation to study the Plum Island Sound system in northeastern Massachusetts. An LTER grant is important scientifically and institutionally because it allows long-term data collection and analysis in the same location and provides
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. R2 Annual Report. For more than a decade, MBL scientists have led a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project on the arctic tundra around Toolik Lake in Alaska. In 1997. scientists at the Center secured another LTER project grant of nearly $ million over six years from the National Science Foundation to study the Plum Island Sound system in northeastern Massachusetts. An LTER grant is important scientifically and institutionally because it allows long-term data collection and analysis in the same location and provides a solid base of funding with which to recruit scientists and research technicians for the project. We are proud of the Ecosystems Center team because they were the only group that was funded out of 21 proposal submissions nationwide. In the southern hemisphere, our scientists have also been compiling data for more than a decade on the effects of deforestation on soil fertility and trace gas emissions in the rainforests in Brazil. Their work continues as they evaluate what effects changing and more aggressive agricultural practices are having on the Amazon Basin and the world. In 1997. the MBL received a challenge grant of $1 million from The Clowes Fund. of Indiana, to provide support for new and expanded facilities for The Ecosystems Center. Thanks to this grant, the MBL is now in the early stages of planning renovations and expansion that will nearly double the Center's existing laboratory. Held staging, and office space. The plans also call for the creation of a new computer teaching laboratory in the Center. The Marine Resources Center Dr. Roger Hanlon has advanced his research agenda in the Marine Resources Center (MRC) with the introduction of the Program in Sensory Biology and Neuroethology and the Program in Scientific Aquaculture. An MRC Advisory Committee has been constituted to review research directions and scientist recruitment strategies. Members of the Comm
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