FSML:Expansion and Enhancement of Analytical Facilities at the Shannon Point Marine Center

西华盛顿大学香农角海洋中心（SPMC）位于普吉特海湾盆地北部的战略位置，提供了从大陆到各种海洋和河口栖息地的直接通道，这些栖息地支持丰富多样的生物群。地理位置和设施为沿海流域和湿地的生产力、营养循环和再生、微生物生态学、底栖生物代谢以及当地鱼类、无脊椎动物和海洋植物物种的生活史现象的过程导向研究提供了独特的机会。SPMC积极参与本科和硕士的学术课程，包括作为高年级课程的网站，并支持广泛的本科和研究生研究。学生既来自本地机构，也来自全国各地的学院和大学。本科专业包括本科生科研体验专业、海洋科学少数民族本科专业和科学教育与研究本科专业。为了促进研究和培训，SPMC开发了一个可供访客和远程调查人员访问的数据库。与附近的帕迪拉湾国家河口研究保护区合作，SPMC已经确定了一些模型研究地点，可以支持该地区的长期研究，特别是关于西海岸河口异常广泛的海草群落。为了对这些社区的调查提供更多的关注，既可以为富有成效的合作研究提供基础，又可以解决当地和区域管理问题，SPMC正在开发一个适当的领域和分析设施基地。随着两艘新考察船的加入，海事处装备精良，可进行实地调查。然而，由于近年来研究和培训活动的大大增加，分析实验室空间已成为一个严重的限制因素。为了进行地球化学和生物化学过程的研究，并满足来访研究人员的兴趣，spmc将翻新和适当布置现有的实验室空间，作为一个额外的分析实验室，从而使可用空间增加一倍。SPMC还将购买新的分析和支持仪器，这将提高设备的研究能力。

Western Washington University's Shannon Point Marine Center(SPMC) is strategically located in the northern Puget Sound basin, providingdirect access from the mainland to a wide variety of marine and estuarinehabitats that support a rich and diverse biota. The location and facilities providedistinctive opportunities for process-oriented research on productivity of coastalwatersheds and wetlands, nutrient cycling and regeneration, microbial ecology, andbenthic metabolism and on life history phenomena of local fish, invertebrate,and marine plant species. SPMC is actively involved in both undergraduate and Master's of Science academic programs including serving as a site for upper division courses and supporting extensive undergraduate and graduate research. Students come from both the home institution and from colleges and universities from around the country. Programs for undergraduates include Research Experiences for Undergraduates, the Minorities in Marine Science Undergraduate Program and the Science Education and Research Undergraduate program. To promote research andTraining, SPMC has developed a database accessible to visitors and remote investigators. In cooperation with the nearby Padilla Bay National EstuarineResearch Reserve, SPMC has identified a number of model study sites that can supportlong-term research in the region, particularly with respect to seagrass communitiesthat are unusually extensive for west coast estuaries. In order to provide additionalfocus to investigations of these communities that can both provide the basis forproductive collaborative research and address local and regional managementconcerns, SPMC is developing an appropriate field and analytical facilities base.With the addition of two new research vessels SPMC is well-equipped to pursueon-site field investigations. Because of greatly increased research and trainingactivity in recent years, however, analytical laboratory space has become a severelylimiting factor. In order to pursue studies of geochemical and biochemicalprocesses and to accommodate the interests of visiting investigators, SPMCwill renovate and properly furnish existing laboratory space for use as anadditional analytical laboratory, thus doubling available space for this purpose.SPMC will also purchase new analytical and support instrumentation not presentlyavailable that will enhance the facilities capacity for research.