FSML: Living Resources Care System

海洋实验室是杜克大学的卫星校园。 尼古拉斯环境学院，位于北卡罗来纳州海岸，靠近Cape Lookout，距离主校区180英里。 其使命是在沿海海洋学、生态学和政策方面进行研究和教育。 它为来自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。 这些用户机构中的许多已经与杜克大学形成了正式的联盟，以推进共同的目标，例如，海洋科学教育联合会、杜克/北卡罗来纳州大学海洋学联合会和海洋大气署渔业海洋学合作研究所。 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动物护理设施，以进行观察和实验研究。 这些设施必须： 1)符合美国农业部日益严格的动物 福利法和卫生与公众服务部有关实验动物护理和使用的政策。 2)提供最优质的海水， 维持海洋生物区系， 提供各种处理的海水用于研究，例如，常温、过滤、混合盐度、加热和冷却。 为了履行其义务，海洋实验室将修复、翻新其现有的自来水和动物护理基础设施并使其现代化，使其成为一个生物资源护理系统。 维修、翻新和现代化将包括以下五个要素：1）四个新的25立方米 流浆箱，用于将颗粒和气体平衡的海水重力供给到两个独立系统中的八个接收站，2）用于1902室外罐区的覆盖结构，3）向两个接收站提供快速砂过滤和筒过滤的海水，4）在有限的基础上向一个接收站提供冷却和加热的海水，和5）更新所有动物护理实验室，以符合美国实验动物护理认证协会（AAALAC）的指导方针，这两种指导方针都适用于脊椎动物。

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.