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

多芬岛海洋实验室（DISL）服务于亚拉巴马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，老年人宿舍参与者和公众，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世纪中一直在稳步增长，但其教育和研究任务一直受到缺乏足够的湿实验室设施的阻碍。DISL拥有10名学术教师的大学课程工作人员，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的各种基础和应用问题，并为工业，政府和公众提供建议。研究领域包括时空尺度对海草群落中食草动物的影响，对商业上重要的鱼类在幼虫阶段的捕食，从个体生物到整个生态系统尺度上营养物质的流动和质量转移，富营养化对近海岸生态系统水柱动力学的影响，有机硫化合物的化学海洋学，古海洋学和古生物学，以及凝胶状浮游动物的生态学。DISL目前的湿实验室设施于1987年组装，并于1955年被飓风Opal摧毁。该中心目前处于基本水平，主要用于保存标本和最低限度的教学目的。DISL大学课程教师的每个成员都需要一个更复杂的教学和研究设施。DISL教师和研究人员之间的合作在区域，国家和国际层面将大大提高了改进的湿实验室。这个充满活力的项目将支持网络实验室的部分翻新，使其达到与不断发展的海洋科学机构DISL相称的运作水平。现有的建筑物将进行翻新，包括一个浮游生物和仔鱼养殖室;室内循环水槽，用于流动生物力学实验;室内湿台，用于保存标本。一个现场计算机设施将用于监测海水、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.