Improvements to the Darling Marine Center

9310551埃克尔巴格达林海洋中心是缅因州系统的大学海洋实验室。 战略上位于缅因州湾，该中心提供了无与伦比的研究和教学机会，居民和访问教师和学生谁需要准备进入各种各样的近岸和潮下带栖息地，包括盐沼，海滩，海草床，所有粒度类型的软底，和岩石硬底。 在过去的两年中，大学已经作出了前所未有的财政承诺，以现代化的设施，并扩大教学和研究计划，使大学和访问教师和研究人员都受益。 在1992年，额外的实验室和办公空间被创建为来访的科学家，三分之二的现有建筑物进行了翻新或改善，游客住房增加了65%，一个新的餐厅墙建成，一个shoreside潜水场分期建设，一个小湿教室被创建，一艘新船被添加到研究船队，并扩大了研究图书馆。 1993年，提供的夏季课程和讲习班的数目将比1992年增加一倍，并将开始执行一项独特的海洋生物多样性方案，开始建立一个生物数据库。 在1993年秋季，一个新创建的“海边学期”计划将开始为UM本科生。 由于该中心经历了居民和访问教师使用的突然好转，大学要求资金建造一个小的岸边访问调查员实验室/教室大楼，以帮助减少拥挤，并有效地巩固所有教学和访问调查员活动附近的海滨。 该大楼将包括：1）白天的实验室/办公室空间为夏季游客，可以在学年期间转换为教室，2）运行的海水实验室，3）小型凭证标本博物馆，以及4）化学/放射性示踪剂实验室。 ***

9310551 Eckelbarger The Darling Marine Center is the marine laboratory of the University of Maine System. Strategically located on the Gulf of Maine, the Center offers unparalleled research and teaching opportunities for resident and visiting faculty and students who require ready access to a wide variety of inshore and subtidal habitats including salt marshes, beaches, seagrass beds, soft bottoms of all grain size types, and rocky hard bottoms. Over the last two years, the University has made an unprecedented financial commitment to modernize the facility and to expand teaching and research programs to benefit both University and visiting faculty and researchers. During 1992, additional lab and office space was created for visiting scientists, two-thirds of the existing buildings were renovated or improved, visitor housing was increased by 65%, a new dining wall was built, a shoreside Dive & Field Staging Building was constructed, a small wet classroom was created, a new boat was added to the research fleet, and the research library was expanded. In 1993, the number of summer courses and workshops offered will be doubled over 1992 and a unique Marine Biodiversity Program will be inaugurated to begin building a biological database. In the fall 1993, a newly created "Semester-by-the-Sea" program will be initiated for UM undergraduates. Because the Center has experienced an abrupt upturn in use by resident and visiting faculty, the University requests funds to construct a small shoreside Visiting Investigator Lab/Classroom building to help reduce crowding and to efficiently consolidate all teaching and visiting investigator activities near the waterfront. The building would contain: 1) day lab/office space for summer visitors that can be converted to a classroom during the academic year, 2) a running seawater lab, 3) a small voucher specimen museum, and 4) a chemical/radioactive tracer lab. ***