Planning Activities: A Request to Improve Research Capacity

9411829该项目由俄勒冈州海洋生物研究所实施，将提供机构规划活动。该机构最近经历了一次扩张，导致常驻教师增加了一倍，支持人员增加了更多，活跃的研究项目增加了四倍。这一扩展还导致了研究生课程的扩大，并增加了游客对实验室设施的使用。积极的、受资助的研究项目的增加带来了对支持这些项目的可靠性的需求增加。具体地说，该项目将致力于制定一份合乎逻辑的长期规划文件，使该机构能够基于支持和促进研究和教育的新的创新方式来规划和阐明计划。该文件将指导未来的增长，并允许相对于增长计划更有效和适当地利用现有空间。将有两个相互关联的方面：1)作为长期设施规划的先决条件，教职员工将在一名协调员的帮助下，在OIMB制定一项长期研究和教育计划。该计划将阐明新教师的需求和期望，并将为未来的发展制定指导方针。2)设施计划将基于对当前需求和未来计划的彻底研究，以及对所有建筑物的建筑研究。该产品将是关于更有效地利用空间的建议，以及基于改善实验室安全和准入的进一步建议，以及费用估计和建议的优先顺序。

9411829 Shapiro, Lynda P. This project, conducted by the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, will provide for institutional planning activities. The facility has undergone a recent expansion, resulting in a doubling of resident faculty, an even greater increase in support staff, and a four-fold increase in active research programs. The expansion has also resulted in augmentation of graduate program, and increased use of laboratory facilities by visitors. The increase in active, funded research programs has carried with it an increase need for reliability in support of these programs. Specifically, the project will aim to develop a logical Long- Range Planning Document that will allow the institution to plan and articulate a program based on new and innovative ways to support and promote research and education. The Document will guide future growth, and allow the use of existing space more efficiently and appropriately relative to plans for growth. There will be two inter-related aspects: 1) As a prerequisite to long-range facilities planning, faculty and staff, with the aid of a Facilitator, will develop a long-range Plan for Research and Education at OIMB. This plan will articulate the needs and expectations of new faculty, and will document a guideline for future growth. 2) The Facilities Plan will be based on a thorough study of present needs and future plans, and architectural studies of all buildings. The product will be recommendations for more efficient use of space and further recommendations based on improved laboratory safety and access, with cost estimates and prioritization of recommendations.