Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope (SEM)

缅因州大学寻求资金为其海洋实验室达林海洋中心购买扫描电子显微镜(SEM)，供1)常驻教职员工和学生，2)附近毕格罗海洋科学实验室的科学家，3)众多访问调查人员，以及4)美杜莎成员使用。一个由60多名海洋本科生海洋科学教员组成的联盟，他们有权特别访问该中心的设施。扫描电子显微镜将支持大学常驻教员的研究，涉及浅水和深海无脊椎动物配子和生殖系统的功能形态，甲壳类动物的比较形态、系统学和系统发育，珊瑚藻类的系统学和生物学，植物-草食动物相互作用的研究，蓝藻形成叠层石的过程，深海有孔虫的古生态研究，作为全球气候变化研究的一部分。该课程将融入我们的暑期教学计划，以丰富现有课程，并建立新的课程。该仪器将用于支持毕格罗实验室海洋浮游植物培养中心的科学家的研究，以识别用于常驻研究并提供给世界各地其他研究人员的甲藻和硅藻的物种。扫描电子显微镜还将用于支持访问该中心的调查人员的多样化研究，包括在该中心正在制定的一项新的海洋生物多样性计划的支持下的无脊椎动物系统学家。

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.