Marine Organism Culture Facility

海洋生物养殖设施

• 批准号: 8909574
• 负责人: F. John Vernberg
• 金额: $ 21万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-01-15 至 1992-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8909574&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Marine; Organism; Culture; Facility

This award provides funds to aid in purchase of equipment needed for large scale culture of marine organisms at the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina. Although the University has already developed a strong program in marine biology, its researchers depend heavily on facilities at the Baruch Institute, which is on the coast at some distance from Columbia. The equipment will permit large scale culture of marine microorganisms and the culture and maintenance of marine animals. Key to both units is the installation of a large, recirculating seawater system that will use seawater brought from the coast by truck. The capacity and flexibility of the proposed system will permit it to satisfy current and future needs, and will permit other faculty, who do not now study marine organisms, to initiate such studies without major disruption to their current research programs. Experimental studies in marine biology have always struggled with a basic problem, the need for fresh seawater for the culture and maintenance of marine animals, plants and microorganisms. Although artificial substitutes for seawater now exist, their cost precludes their use on a large scale. Thus much marine biology has been done in specialized oceanside research laboratories which are often at considerable distance from the campuses whose faculty use them and are often used intensively only during the summer. This has tended to isolate marine biologists from other biologists, and has hindered the transfer of modern techniques, especially those of molecular biology, from other areas of biology. One solution to this problem is to truck large amounts of seawater to a university which is near, but not on the ocean, so that marine organisms can be grown "on site" is sufficient quantity for year round research programs. This solution also facilitates multi-investigator, multidisciplinary research programs that involve skilled researchers from non-marine disciplines. Such collaborations will be key to the development of new approaches to the study of marine organisms, and to the use of such organisms in biotechnology.

该奖项提供资金，以帮助购买设备 需要大规模培养海洋生物， 南卡罗来纳州大学的哥伦比亚校区。 虽然 该大学已经制定了一个强大的计划，在海洋 生物学，其研究人员严重依赖于设施， 巴鲁克研究所，这是在海岸上的一段距离， 哥伦比亚。 该设备将允许大规模培养 海洋微生物与海洋微生物的培养和维护 动物 这两个单位的关键是安装一个大的， 循环海水系统，将使用从 海岸卡车 建议的能力和灵活性 系统将使其能够满足当前和未来的需求， 将允许其他现在不研究海洋生物的教师， 启动此类研究，而不会对他们的工作造成重大干扰。 目前的研究计划。 海洋生物学的实验研究一直在努力 一个基本的问题是，养殖需要新鲜的海水 以及海洋动植物和微生物的养护。 虽然现在存在海水的人工替代品， 但是，由于成本原因，它们不能大规模使用。 如此多的海洋 生物学已经在专门的海边研究中完成， 的实验室 通常与那些 使用它们，并且通常仅在夏季密集使用。 这往往使海洋生物学家与其他 生物学家，并阻碍了现代技术的转让， 尤其是分子生物学领域的研究， 生物学 解决这个问题的一个办法是用卡车运送大量的 把海水输送到一所离海岸很近但不在海上的大学， 这样海洋生物就可以“就地”生长， 全年研究计划。 该解决方案还 促进多研究者、多学科研究 涉及非海洋技术研究人员的项目 学科 这种合作将是发展的关键 研究海洋生物的新方法， 在生物技术中的应用