FSML: Living Resources Care System

海洋实验室是杜克大学的一个附属校区。尼古拉斯环境学院位于北卡罗莱纳州海岸，靠近瞭望角，距离主校区180英里。其任务是在沿海海洋学、生态学和政策方面进行研究和教育。它为杜克大学和许多北美海外机构的研究人员、教育工作者和学生提供服务。其中许多用户机构已与杜克大学结成正式联盟，以推进共同目标，例如，海洋科学教育联盟（MESU）、杜克大学/北卡罗来纳大学海洋学联盟（D/UNCOC）和NOAA渔业海洋学合作研究所（CIFO）。作为一个服务于不同客户的沿海野外站，DUML有期望和义务为其用户提供观察和实验研究的动物护理设施。这些设施必须：1)遵守越来越严格的美国农业部动物福利法和国土安全部有关实验动物的照顾和使用的政策。2)为维持海洋生物群提供最优质的海水，并为研究提供各种处理的海水，如环境、过滤、混合盐度、加热和冷藏。为了履行其义务，海洋实验室将对其现有的流动海水和动物护理基础设施进行维修、翻新和现代化改造，使其成为一个生物资源护理系统的功能状态。维修、翻新和现代化将包括以下五个要素：1) 4个新的25m3头箱，用于将颗粒和气体平衡的海水重力输送到两个独立系统中的8个接收站，2)为1902年的室外储罐库提供覆盖结构，3)为两个接收站提供快速砂过滤和筒滤海水，4)为一个接收站提供有限的冷冻和加热海水。5)对所有动物护理实验室进行翻新，以符合美国实验动物护理认证协会（AAALAC）的指导方针，包括脊椎动物。

The Marine Laboratory is a satellite campus of Duke University. Nicholas School of the Environment, located on the coast of North Carolina near Cape Lookout and 180 miles from the main campus. Its mission is research and education in coastal oceanography, ecology and policy. Its serves researchers, educators and students from Duke University and from many North American overseas institutions. Many of these user institutions have formed formal consortia with Duke University to advance common goals, e.g., the Marine Science Education Consortium (MESU), the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium (D/UNCOC) and the NOAA Cooperative Institute of Fisheries Oceanography (CIFO). As a coastal field station serving a diverse clientele, the DUML has the expectation and obligation to provide its users with animal care facilities for observational and experimental studies. These facilities must: 1) comply with the ever more rigorous USDA Animal Welfare Act and DHHS policies related to the care and use of laboratory animals. 2) provide the highest quality sea water for the maintenance of marine biota, and provide sea water variously processed for research, e.g., ambient, filtered, mixed salinity, heated and chilled. To meet its obligation, the Marine Laboratory will repair, renovate and modernize its existing running sea water and animal care infrastructure to the functional status of a living resources care system. Repair, renovation and modernization will include the following five elements: 1) four new 25m3 headboxes to gravity feed particle and gas equilibrated sea water to eight receiving stations in two separate systems, 2) a covering structure for a 1902 outdoor tank farm, 3) provision of fast sand filtered and cartridge filtered sea water to two receiving stations, 4) provision of chilled and heated sea water on a limited basis to one receiving station, and 5) renovation of all animal care laboratories to comply with American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) guidelines, both for vertebrate animals.