FSML: Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies Animal Care and Experimental Aquaculture System

Romberg Tiburon环境研究中心是由旧金山州立大学（SFSU）运营的海洋实验室，该大学以本科生为主，少数民族学生占57%。Romberg Tiburon中心（RTC）是旧金山湾唯一的学术研究机构，旧金山湾是美国最大的河口之一。它是一个专注于研究任务的机构，旨在获得对旧金山湾及其周围环境的物理和生物过程的基本理解。在过去的五年中，RTC的研究科学家已经培训和支持了80多名研究生和本科生，并与其他大学、联邦和地方环境机构的科学家进行了广泛的合作。该中心的18名研究科学家及其学生目前正在进行的研究项目范围从河口无脊椎动物解毒机制的研究到南极浮游生物动力学的研究。1998年8月，三名新研究员和一名新终身教职员工加入RTC。为了继续证明其对该中心的贡献，该大学已承诺在未来五年内再雇用四名终身教职员工。此外，RTC于1996年启动了一项访问科学家计划，每年为中心的访问科学家提供支持。人员的急剧增加导致了研究和教学的多样化和丰富性，并相应地大幅度增加了本科生和研究生对中心的使用。RTC的研究和教育项目中还缺少一个基本的部分，那就是为河口和海洋生物的护理和实验操作提供流动海水的设施。一些RTC的教职员工(4)目前获得了NSF对包括活体实验工作在内的研究项目的支持。其他教师和科学家从美国能源部、美国国立卫生研究院和加州水资源部获得资金，进行需要流动海湾或海水的研究。旧金山湾区的合作伙伴对位于旧金山湾区的一个设施表示了浓厚的兴趣，该设施拥有最先进的海湾和海水系统，用于研究、动物护理和水产养殖。该提案的主要目标是通过提供水箱、地下水位、加热装置和用于精确控制该系统的最先进的计算机硬件和软件系统来创建一个现代化的海水设施。该设施将支持RTC内部科学家和外部当地教育工作者和科学家的众多研究和教育活动。

The Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies is a marine laboratory operated by San Francisco State University (SFSU), a predominantly undergraduate institution with a 57% minority enrollment. The Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) is the only academic research facility on San Francisco Bay, one of the largest estuaries in the U.S. It is a facility with a tightly focused research mission aimed toward gaining fundamental understanding of the physical and biological processes of San Francisco Bay and its surrounding environments. Research scientists at RTC have trained and supported over 80 graduate and undergraduate students in the last five years and have extensive collaborations with fellow university, and federal and local environmental agency scientists. Current research projects being conducted by the Center's 18 research scientists and their students range from studies of detoxification mechanisms of estuarine invertebrates to studies of plankton dynamics in the Antarctic. Three new researchers, and a new tenure track faculty member, joined RTC in August 1998. As continuing evidence of its dedication to The Center, the University has committed to hire four additional tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years. Additionally, RTC initiated a Visiting Scientist Program in 1996 that supports a visiting scientist at the Center annually. This dramatic increase in personnel has resulted in a diversification and enrichment of research and teaching, and a corresponding dramatic increase in undergraduate and graduate use of the Center.A remaining fundamental missing piece in the research and educational program at RTC is a facility to provide flowing seawater for care and experimental manipulation of estuarine and marine organisms. Several RTC faculty and staff (4) have current NSF support for research projects that include aspects of experimental work on live organisms. Other faculty and scientists have funding from DOE, NIH, and the California Department of Water Resources to conduct research which requires flowing bay or seawater. San Francisco Bay Area collaborators have expressed strong interest in a facility with a state-of-the-art bay and seawater system for research, animal care and aquaculture located on San Francisco Bay. The primary objective of this proposal is to create a modern seawater facility by providing the tanks, water tables, heating unit and a system of state-of-the-art computer hardware and software for precise control of the system. This facility will support the numerous research and educational activities of internal RTC scientists and external local educators and scientists.