Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope (SEM)

缅因州大学寻求资金购买扫描仪 电子显微镜（SEM）的海洋实验室， 达令海洋中心，供1）常驻教师和 学生，2）科学家在附近的毕格罗实验室， 海洋科学，3）许多访问调查员，以及4） MEDUSA是一个由60多名海军陆战队员组成的财团， 本科海洋科学教师谁被赋予特殊的 进入中心的设施。 SEM将支持 研究由大学教师在住宿涉及 配子和生殖系统的功能形态 浅水和深海无脊椎动物，比较 甲壳类的形态学、系统学和生殖发育学 珊瑚藻系统学和生物学，植物研究， 草食动物的相互作用叠层石的形成过程 蓝藻的形成和古生态学研究 深海有孔虫是全球气候变化的一部分 research. SEM将融入我们的夏季 教学计划，以丰富现有的课程，并建立 新的 该工具将用于支持研究 毕格罗实验室文化中心的科学家们 海洋浮游植物的种类，以确定 用于居民研究的甲藻和硅藻， 提供给世界各地的其他研究人员。 的SEM 还将用于支持各种研究， 访问中心的研究人员，包括无脊椎动物 在新的海洋生物多样性下支持系统学家 该中心正在制定计划。

The University of Maine seeks funding to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for its marine laboratory, the Darling Marine Center, for use by 1) resident faculty and students, 2) scientists at the nearby Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 3) numerous visiting investigators, and 4) members of MEDUSA, a consortium of over 60 Marine undergraduate marine science faculty who are given special access to the Center's facilities. The SEM would support research by University faculty in residence involving the functional morphology of gametes and reproductive systems of shallow water and deep-sea invertebrates, comparative morphology, systematics, and phylogeny of crustaceans, the systematics and biology of coralline algae, studies of plant- herbivore interactions, the process of stromatolite formation by cyanobacteria, and paleoecological studies of deep-sea foraminifers as part of global climate change research. The SEM would be integrated into our summer teaching program to enrich existing courses and to establish new ones. The instrument would be used to support research by scientists at the Bigelow Laboratory's Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton to identify species of dinoflagellates and diatoms used for resident research and supplied to other researchers throughout the world. The SEM would also be used to support the diverse research of visiting investigators to the Center including invertebrate systematists supported under a new Marine Biodiveristy Program being developed at the Center.