FSML- Renovation of Dauphin Island Sea Lab's Wet Lab Facility

Dauphin Island海洋实验室(DISL)服务于阿拉巴马州在海洋科学方面的研究和教学需求。所有教育水平的学生，包括K-12学生、本科生和研究生、培训教师、老年宿舍参与者和普通公众，都从DISL提供的课程中受益。尽管DISL的学术人员和物理工厂在其存在的四分之一个世纪期间一直在稳步增长，但其教育和研究任务一直受到缺乏足够的湿实验室设施在受控条件下进行实验的阻碍。DISL拥有一个由10名学术教员组成的大学项目工作人员，他们都是活跃的研究人员和教师。该学院研究海洋学和海洋生物学中的各种基本和应用问题，并为行业、政府和公众提供建议。研究领域包括时空尺度对海草群落食草性的影响、幼体阶段对重要商业鱼类的捕食、从单个生物体到整个生态系统的营养物质流动和质量转移、富营养化对近海生态系统水柱动态的影响、有机硫化物的化学海洋学、古海洋学和古生物学以及胶状浮游动物的生态学。DISL目前的湿实验室设施是在1987年组装的，并在1955年被飓风Opal摧毁。它目前运行在基本水平，主要用于保存标本和最低限度的教学目的。DISL的每一位大学计划教员都需要一个更先进的教学和研究设施。改进的湿实验室将极大地加强DISL教职员工和研究人员在地区、国家和国际层面的合作。这个充满活力的项目将支持网络实验室的部分翻新，使其达到与DISL正在成长的海洋科学机构相称的运作水平。现有的建筑将进行翻新，包括一个浮游生物和幼鱼养殖室；用于流动生物力学实验的室内循环水槽；以及用于存放标本的室内湿桌子。将使用现场计算机设施监测海水、淡水、电力和相关控制系统；提供数据管理和处理能力；并通过万维网向其他研究人员提供数据。

The Dauphin Island Island Sea Lab (DISL) serves Alabama's research and instructional needs in the marine sciences. Students at all educational levels, including K-12 pupils,undergraduate and graduate students, teachers-in- training, elderhostel participants, and the general public, benefit from the programs offered at DISL. Although DISL's academic staff and physical plant have been growing steadily during the quartercentury of its existence, its educational and research missions have been hindered by the lack of adequate Wet Lab facilities for experimentation under controlled conditions. DISL has a University Programs staff of ten academic faculty, all of whom are active researchers and teachers. The faculty study a variety of basic and applied problems in oceanography and marine biology, and they provide advice to industry, government, and the public. Research areas include the effects of spatio-temoral scale on herbivory in seagrass communities, predation on commercially important fish at the larval stage, flow and mass transfer of nutrients at scales ranging from the individual organism to the whole ecosystem, the effects of eutrophication on water-column dynamics in near-coastal ecosystems, the chemical oceanography of organosulfur compounds, paleoceanography and paleobiology, and the ecology of gelatinous zooplankton. DISL's current Wet Lab facility was assembled in 1987 and destroyed by Hurricane Opal in 1955. It is at present running at a basic level and being used primarily for holding specimens and for minimal instructional purposes. Each member of the University Programs faculty at DISL has need of a far more sophisticated facility for teaching and research. Collaborations between DISL faculty and researchers at regional, national, and international levels would be greatly enhanced by an improved Wet Lab. This vibrant project will support the partial renovation of the Web Lab, bringing it to a level of operation commensurate with the growin g marine science institution that is DISL. The existing building will be refurbished to include a plankton and larval fish culture room; indoor recirculating flumes for experiments on the biomechanics of flow; and indoor wet tables for holding specimens. An on- site computer facility will be used to monitor the seawater, freshwater, electrical, and associated control systems; provide data management and processing capabilities; and make data available to other researchers through the World Wide Web.