Improvements to the Darling Marine Center

9310551达林海洋中心是缅因州大学系统的海洋实验室。该中心位于缅因湾的战略位置，为常驻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、各种粒度的软底和岩石硬底。在过去的两年里，该大学做出了史无前例的财政承诺，对设施进行现代化改造，并扩大教学和研究项目，使大学和客座教师和研究人员都受益。在1992年期间，为来访的科学家增加了实验室和办公空间，翻新或改善了现有建筑的三分之二，访客住房增加了65%，建造了新的餐厅墙，建造了海滨潜水和露天临时大楼，建造了一个小型潮湿教室，为研究船队增加了一艘新船，并扩大了研究图书馆。1993年，暑期课程和讲习班的数量将比1992年增加一倍，并将启动一个独特的海洋生物多样性方案，以开始建立一个生物数据库。1993年秋季，将为密歇根大学的本科生设立一个新的“海边学期”项目。由于该中心的常驻教员和访问教员的使用率突然上升，该大学要求拨款建造一座小型海滨访问调查员实验室/教学楼，以帮助减少拥挤，并有效地整合海滨附近的所有教学和访问调查员活动。该建筑将包括：1)供夏季参观者使用的白天实验室/办公空间，可在学年期间转换为教室；2)流动海水实验室；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. ***