Improvements to the Darling Marine Center

达令海洋中心是缅因大学系统的海洋实验室。该中心位于缅因湾的战略位置，为居民和访问教师和学生提供无与伦比的研究和教学机会，他们需要随时进入各种近岸和潮下栖息地，包括盐沼，海滩，海草床，所有颗粒大小类型的软底和岩石硬底。在过去的两年里，大学做出了前所未有的财政承诺，使设施现代化，扩大教学和研究项目，使大学和访问教师和研究人员受益。在1992年期间，为来访的科学家创造了额外的实验室和办公空间，三分之二的现有建筑进行了翻新或改进，游客住房增加了65%，建造了新的用餐墙，建造了海岸潜水和现场表演大楼，建造了一个小教室，为研究船队增加了一艘新船，并扩建了研究图书馆。1993年提供的夏季课程和讲习班的数目将比1992年增加一倍，并将启动一项独特的海洋生物多样性方案，以便开始建立一个生物数据库。1993年秋季，澳门大学将为本科生开办一个新设立的“海上学期”项目。由于该中心的居民和访问教师的使用急剧增加，大学要求资金建造一个小型的岸边访问研究者实验室/教室大楼，以帮助减少拥挤，并有效地巩固所有教学和访问研究者在海滨的活动。该建筑将包含：1)夏季访客的日间实验室/办公空间，可以在学年期间转换为教室，2)运行的海水实验室，3)小型代金券标本博物馆，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. ***