ARFMP: Modernization of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）向关岛大学提供资金，用于关岛大学海洋实验室的翻新和维修，该实验室进行海洋科学研究和研究培训活动，是该地区唯一的美国海洋实验室设施。这座建筑建于1970年，最后一次翻修是在1975年。ARFMP拨款130,795美元将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化，这些设施位于恶劣和腐蚀性的热带海洋自然环境中，需要异常大量的设施维护和维修。该项目将通过增加和更换实验室计数器，为显微摄影和微生物学提供实验室空间，以及为船舶储存提供能力，解决改善当前研究基础设施的需求。并消除了水温、盐度波动、外部水位及水族区藻类污染等问题。该奖项通过为进行研究和培养本科生和硕士生提供更好的环境，为科学基础设施做出了贡献。关岛海洋实验室由于其地理位置和它所代表的具体研究专门知识，在国家的科学基础中起着独特的作用。它为生活在美国附属的密克罗尼西亚群岛上的太平洋岛民提供了研究机会，事实上，除了数千英里之外的夏威夷，它是唯一一个当地人可以获得本科和研究生学位经验并进行涉及当地海洋环境研究的设施。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the University of Guam for the renovation and repair of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory which houses marine sciences research and research training activities and is the only U.S. marine laboratory facility in the region. This building was constructed in 1970 and last renovated in 1975. The ARFMP grant of $130,795 will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities which are located in a harsh and corrosive tropical marine natural environment that necessitates an unusually large amount of maintenance and repair of facilities. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by adding and replacing laboratory counters, providing a laboratory space for photomicrography and microbiology and a capacity for boat storage, and eliminating the problems of fluctuations in water temperature and salinity and algal fouling of the outside water table and aquarium area. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of undergraduate and master's degree students. The Guam Marine Laboratory plays a unique role in the nation's scientific base due to its geographical location and the specific research expertise that it represents. It provides research opportunities for native Pacific Islanders living on the U.S.- affiliated islands of Micronesia, and indeed, outside of Hawaii, which is many thousands of miles away, it is the only facility where local people can obtain undergraduate and graduate degree experience and conduct research involving the local marine environments.