ARFMP: Renovation of Multi-Disciplinary Research Facilities

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)奖为加州大学圣地亚哥分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所提供资金，用于Sverdrup大厅的翻新和维修，该大厅容纳了地球物理、地球化学、生物化学、空间物理、海洋地质学和生物海洋学方面的各种研究活动。这座建筑建于1960年，之前从未翻修过。受赠方提供的550,000美元和585,303美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊，将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将解决通过翻新电力系统和供暖、通风和空调(暖通空调)系统改善现有研究基础设施的需要，以便能够运行现代研究设备和计算机，并保护样品和设备不受暴露在盐-空气环境中的有害影响。该奖项为科学基础设施建设作出了贡献，特别是为开展更多和更好的海洋科学研究提供了更好的环境，并提高了在Sverdrup Hall进行的所有研究和研究培训的有效性。它将使斯克里普斯的科学家能够继续进行研究，并快速有效地进入新的研究领域，它将促进培养出更高质量的研究生，他们将像过去一样，进入全国各地的教职员工职位，在那里他们将对这一代和未来几代人的海洋科学质量产生影响。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Scripps Institute of Oceanography of the University of California San Diego for the renovation and repair of Sverdrup Hall which houses a wide diversity of research activities in geophysics, geochemistry, biochemistry, space physics, marine geology, and biological oceanography. This building was constructed in 1960 and has not previously been renovated. The ARFMP grant of $550,000 and $585,303 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by renovating the electrical power system and the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system so that modern research equipment and computers can be operated and samples and equipment can be protected from the deleterious effects of exposure to the salt-air environment. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of more and better research in marine sciences in particular and for the increased effectiveness of all research and research training conducted in Sverdrup Hall. It will enable scientists at Scripps to pursue ongoing investigations and to move quickly and efficiently into new areas of research, and it will facilitate the production of even higher quality graduate students who will, as they have in the past, move on to faculty positions throughout the nation where they will have an impact on the quality of ocean sciences in this and future generations.