Improvement of the Seawater System for the University of Guam Marine Laboratory

关岛大学海洋实验室将扩大和升级海水系统，以支持对空间日益增长的需求，以支持常驻教师和学生以及访问调查人员的研究。先前的设施改进包括升级海水泵，安装一个冗余系统，以便在不中断海水流动的情况下对泵进行维护和维修，以及增加一个带自动转换开关的备用发电机，使系统能够在电力短缺期间连续运行。目前海水系统的可靠性将加强实验和增加实验室设施的使用，以便在受控条件下进行操作实验，并进行长期的生长和生理研究。随着最近游客住房设施的建成，访问研究人员使用地下水位的需求也在不断增加。为了确保该设施能够满足驻地和访问科学家的研究需要，关岛大学海洋实验室将扩大和改进现有设施。具体的改进包括海水入口，扩大室外封闭空间，增加更多的海水台面和水箱，以及增加备用井，以便在热带风暴和台风期间持续提供海水。关岛大学海洋实验室支持8名全职教员、许多研究生和本科生以及访问调查人员的研究。由于实验室增加了新的教员，最近海洋实验室与夏威夷大学和琉球大学（日本冲绳）之间建立了合作方案，以及参加1992年6月在关岛举行的第七届国际珊瑚礁专题讨论会的550多名科学家认识到海洋实验室是珊瑚礁研究的资源，因此对该设施的研究需求有所增加。海水系统的改善，可为越来越多希望在实验室进行研究的访问科学家提供支持，从而改善研究环境。

The University of Guam Marine Laboratory will expand and upgrade the seawater system in support of the growing demand for space to support research by both resident faculty and students as well as visiting investigators. Prior facilities improvements have included an upgrade of the seawater pumps, installation of a redundant system that allowed for pump maintenance and repairs without interruption of seawater flow and the addition of a back-up generator with an automatic transfer switch which has enabled the system to run continuously during periods of power outrage. The dependability of the present seawater system will enhance experimentation and increase use of the laboratory facilities for manipulative experiments under controlled conditions, and for longer term growth and physiological studies. With the recent completion of a visitors housing facility there is also an increasing demand for the use of the water tables by visiting researchers. In order to ensure the facility can meet the research needs of both resident and visiting scientists, the University of Guam Marine Laboratory will expand and upgrade the present facilities. The specific improvements include the seawater intake, expansion of the outdoor enclosed space, addition of more seawater tables and tanks, and addition of a back-up well to allow continuous seawater availability during tropical storms and typhoons. The University of Guam Marine Laboratory supports the research of eight full-time faculty, numerous graduate and undergraduate students, as well as visiting investigators. The research demands on the facility have increased due to the addition of new faculty at the laboratory, the recent establishment of collaborative programs between the Marine Laboratory and the University of Hawaii and the University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan), and the awareness of the Marine Laboratory as a resource for coral reef research by over 550 scientists who attended the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium on Guam in June 1992. The improvements to the seawater system will allow the support of the increasing number of visiting scientists that wish to conduct research at the laboratory, which will in turn enhance the research environment.