Expansion of a Seawater Facility for Marine Organisms at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc

该合同为百慕大生物研究站（BBSR）海水设施的扩建和改进提供了部分支持。这笔资金将用于建造一座新建筑，以容纳装有流动海水的水箱，并购买扩大海水系统容量所需的设备。该项目将提高居民和访问学生和科学家参与需要使用良好控制的高质量海水系统的研究项目和教育活动的能力。将从扩建后的设施中受益的研究活动包括：评估人类对百慕大近海海洋生态系统的影响；海洋浮游生物群落生理生态学研究研究马尾藻海生态系统对全球变化的响应；了解热带海洋生态系统在有机体、细胞和分子水平上的功能。受益的教育活动包括BBSR夏季课程，与罗德岛大学合作的秋季学期课程，与杜克大学合作的春季学期课程，BBSR的研究生实习项目，以及本科生开放海洋和亚热带海洋研究经验项目。

This award provides partial support for the expansion and improvement of the seawater facility at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. (BBSR). Funds will be used to construct a new building to house tanks with flowing seawater, and to purchase equipment needed to expand the capacity of the seawater system. The project will enhance the ability of resident and visiting students and scientists to engage in research programs and educational activities that require the use of a well-controlled, high-quality seawater system. Among the research activities that will benefit from the expanded facility are programs designed to: assess human impact on Bermuda's inshore marine ecosystem; study the physiological ecology of oceanic plankton communities; examine the response of the Sargasso Sea ecosystem to global change; and understand the function of tropical marine ecosystems at the organismal, cellular and molecular levels. Among the educational activities that will benefit are the BBSR summer courses, the fall semester courses run in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, the spring semester program run in collaboration with Duke University, the BBSR's Graduate Intern Program, and the Open Ocean and Sub-Tropical Marine Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.