Acquisition of Research Instrumentation and Small Research Vessel for the Darling Marine Center

为达令海洋中心采购研究仪器和小型研究船

• 批准号: 9512278
• 负责人: Kevin Eckelbarger
• 金额: $ 9.82万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-03-01 至 1998-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Research; Instrumentation; Small; Vessel

PROJECT SUMMARY The Darling Marine Center is the marine laboratory of the University of Maine System. Since 1991, the University has made an unprecedented financial commitment to modernize the facility and to expand teaching and research programs to benefit both University faculty and visiting researchers. Lab and office space for visiting scientists has been increased 5 fold, nearly all of the Center's 16 original building have been renovated or improved, visitor housing has been increased by 65%, a new dining hall has been built, a shoreside Dive & Field Staging Building has been erected to support SCUBA work, two additional classrooms have been constructed including a new shoreside Visiting Investigator/Classroom building, and the research library has been expanded. The inauguration of a formal Visiting Investigation program in 1991 has resulted in an unexpected surge of visitors that is increasing annually. A concerted effort has been made to involve visitors in planning future facility improvements and, based on their evaluations, the University has targeted three areas of facility weaknesses at the Darling Center, two of which are the focus of this proposal: 1) additional improvements to the small vessel operation and 2) the upgrade of research instrumentation for visitors. This project will support the purchase of a 24' research vessel with enclosed cabin space for conducting all-weather research and teaching activities, as will the purchase of several research instruments that are most frequently requested by visiting investigators will be supported. The University will provide no funds to construct a shoreside 40 x 50' x 20' Vessel Operations building that will be used for repair, maintenance and storage of the Center's boat fleet.

Darling海洋中心是缅因州系统大学的海洋实验室。 自1991年以来，该大学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，使大学教师和访问研究人员受益。 访问科学家的实验室和办公空间增加了5倍，几乎所有中心的16个原始建筑都进行了翻新或改进，游客住房增加了65%，建造了一个新的餐厅，建造了一个海滨潜水&场舞台建筑以支持SCUBA工作，另外建造了两个教室，包括一个新的海滨访问调查员/教室大楼，并扩大了研究图书馆。 1991年正式的访问调查计划的就职典礼导致了游客的意外激增，每年都在增加。 已经作出了协调一致的努力，让游客参与规划未来的设施改进，并根据他们的评估，该大学有针对性地在达林中心，其中两个是本提案的重点设施薄弱的三个领域：1）额外的改进，以小型船舶操作和2）研究仪器的游客升级。 该项目将支持购买一艘24英尺的研究船，船上有封闭的船舱空间，用于开展全天候的研究和教学活动，还将支持购买访问调查人员最经常要求的几种研究仪器。该大学将不提供资金来建造一个岸边40 x 50' x 20'船舶运营建设，将用于维修，维护和中心的船队存储。