A proposal to improve plankton culturing facilities at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

毕格罗海洋科学实验室是独一无二的， 集中研究海洋浮游植物，这种微小的漂浮植物， 构成了世界海洋食物链的基础。 劳顾会是 被常驻和访问科学家积极使用。 莫林医生 凯勒是实验室的常驻科学家， 一个雄心勃勃的计划，以扩大实验室的能力， 实验室中的浮游植物， 条件 凯勒博士提议的这些新实验室设施 促进对海洋生物生长和生理学的新研究 浮游生物，并允许在毕格罗实验室培养极地物种 第一次 毕格罗实验室培养设施的扩建计划 将容纳更多的研究项目，并将促进新的 研究的途径。 这种扩张将建立一种独特的 能够控制温度培养至极地 条件，并将增加实验室的其他影响 设施，如最近获得的透射电子 显微镜和海洋的重要参考收藏 浮游植物

The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is unique in its focus on marine phytoplankton, the microscopic floating plants that form the base of the food chain in the world's oceans. The Lab is actively used by resident and visiting scientists. Dr. Maureen Keller is a resident scientists at the Lab, and she has embarked on an ambitious plan to expand the Lab's ability to grow phytoplankton in the laboratory under carefully controlled conditions. These new lab facilities proposed by Dr. Keller would facilitate novel research into the growth and physiology of marine plankton, and would allow culturing of polar species at Bigelow Lab for the first time. The proposed expansion of the Bigelow Lab's culturing facility would accommodate more research projects and would facilitate new avenues of research. This expansion would establish a unique capability for controlled temperature culturing down to polar conditions, and would increase the impact of the Lab's other facilities, such as a recently acquired transmission electron microscope and an important reference collection of marine phytoplankton.