Improvement of Research Facilities at Marine Science Center,Mahant, MA

东北大学海洋科学中心是唯一一个拥有全年研究和教学设施以及常驻教职员工的海洋站，位于科德角以北的新英格兰海岸。它也是大波士顿地区大多数大学一小时车程内唯一的这样的海洋实验室。该地点位于波士顿港口以北，为实地研究和生物采集提供高质量的海水和绝佳的潮间带和潮下生境。海洋科学中心资助的研究包括海洋生态学、行为学、神经生物学、结构生物学、生物化学和分子生物学的各种项目。目前，新项目的开发和新的常驻和访问调查人员的增加受到现有研究空间的严重限制。这项奖励将通过提供部分资金，在目前的实验室建筑基础上增加6000平方英尺的面积和两件急需的设备，从而增加研究空间。扩建将为常驻教师、东北大学的其他研究人员以及波士顿地区、美国其他地区和海外其他学术机构的访问研究人员资助的项目提供急需的空间。

The Marine Science Center of Northeastern University is the only marine station with year-round research and teaching facilities, as well as resident faculty and staff, located on the coast of New England north of Cape Cod. It is also the only such marine laboratory within an hour's drive of most universities in the greater Boston area. The location, well north of Boston Harbor, provides high quality seawater and excellent intertidal and subtidal habitats for field study and organism collection. Funded research at the Marine Science Center encompasses a variety of projects in marine ecology, behavior, neurobiology, structural biology, biochemistry and molecular biology. At present, development of new projects and addition of new resident and visiting investigators are severely limited by available research space. This award will increase research space by providing partial funding for a 6000 square foot addition to the present laboratory building and two pieces of badly needed equipment. The expansion will provide space critically needed for funded projects by resident faculty, other investigators from Northeastern University, and visiting researchers from other academic institutions in the Boston area, other parts of the U.S. and overseas.