ARFMP: Modernization of Environmental Science and Engineering Facility at MIT

学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP） 研究设施办公室的一项奖励为 马萨诸塞州理工学院的改造和 修复拉尔夫M。帕森斯水资源实验室 环境工程，其中包括环境科学 和工程研究及研究培训活动 土木工程署。 这座建筑建于 1950年，最后一次翻修是在1969年。 非洲区域渔业管理方案赠款70万美元， 受赠方提供的859 000美元分摊费用将用于 使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。 这 该项目将解决需要改善目前的研究 （a）更新环境化学， 生物实验室，以便最先进的研究可以 现代研究设备可以最有效地 （B）巩固流体动力学设施， （c）更有效地利用 空间，以便新环境微生物学实验室， 增加了计算机工作站的容量， 学生研究助理人数的增长可能是 办妥了一批 从这次翻新中获得的好处可以是 预计不仅要提高清洁和安全的 研究环境，而且要提高效率， 研究，解决环境工程问题的能力， 涉及非常危险的物质和样品的科学问题 只含有微量的感兴趣的化学物质， 将现代微生物学与目前占主导地位的 物理和化学环境研究活动， 培养更多学生的能力。 该奖项有助于科学的基础设施， 通过提供更好的行为环境， 研究和培养高质量的本科生， 研究生在一个部门与坚定的承诺， 招收少数民族学生和女学生。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the renovation and repair of the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Environmental Engineering which houses the environmental science and engineering research and research training activities of the Civil Engineering Department. This building was constructed in 1950 and last renovated in 1969. The ARFMP grant of $700,000 and $859,000 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 (a) refurbishing the environmental chemistry and biology laboratories so that state-of-the-art research can be performed and modern research equipment can be most effectively used in them; (b) consolidating the hydrodynamics facilities to enhance their utility; and (c) making more efficient use of the space so that a new environmental microbiology laboratory can be added, the capacity of computer work stations can be expanded, and growth in the population of student research assistants can be achieved. The benefits that accrue from this renovation can be expected not only to improve the cleanliness and safety of the research environment but also to enhance the efficiency of research, the capacity to address environmental engineering and science problems involving very hazardous substances and samples containing only trace quantities of chemicals of interest, the ability to blend modern microbiology with the currently predominant physical and chemical environmental research activities, and the ability to train more students. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science and engineering by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate and graduate students in a department with a strong commitment to the recruitment of minority and women students.