Development of an Outdoor Seawater Facility to Increase Research Capabilities

切萨皮克生物实验室(CBL)将被建议建造一个室外海水设施，以研究来自广泛分类群(细菌、藻类、无脊椎动物和鱼类)的生物的生态学、毒理学、能量学和生物化学。该设施将加强CBL目前在污染物营养转移、营养和群落动态、迁徙和招募方面的研究举措。这些举措取决于实验室方法和实地方法，但由于规模的考虑，这两种方法往往不能调和。室外海水设施将提供关键的中尺度水平，以补充实验室和实地调查中目前的CBL强度。户外海水设施将向CEES的科学家、研究生和几个学科的来访科学家开放。该设施包括一个167平方英尺的。带海水管道、排水、移动式天篷和灵活设计的水箱和跑道的水泥表。该设施将大大增强CBL的研究和培训计划的范围，也将是该地区唯一可供访问/合作调查人员使用的设施。建成后，该设施将成为CBL在其三个方案领域成功执行任务的主要贡献者：生态系统研究、渔业科学/生态学和环境化学/毒理学。

The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) will be suggested to construct an Outdoor Seawater Facility to study the ecology, toxicology, energetics, and biochemistry of organisms from a wide spectrum of taxa (bacteria, algae, invertebrates and fishes). The facility will enhance current research initiatives at CBL in trophic transfers of contaminants, trophic and community dynamics, migration, and recruitment. These initiatives depend upon both laboratory and field approaches which often cannot be reconciled because of scaling considerations. The outdoor Seawater Facility will provide a critical mesocosm-scale level to complement current CBL strengths in laboratory and field investigations. The Outdoor Seawater Facility will be available to CEES scientists, graduate students, and visiting scientists in several disciplines. The facility comprises a 167-sq. meter cement pad with seawater plumbing, drainage, portable canopies, and flexible-design tanks and raceways. The facility will significantly enhance the range of research and training programs at CBL and will also be a unique facility in the region available to visiting/collaborating investigators. When completed, the facility will be a major contributor to the success of CBL's mission in its three programmatic areas: Ecosystem Studies, Fisheries Science/Ecology, and Environment Chemistry/Toxicology.