Student Housing for Instructional Programs and Field Research

在詹姆斯·桑德斯博士的指导下，斯基德韦海洋研究所获得了一笔赠款。斯基德韦海洋研究所是佐治亚州大学系统的一个单位，是了解海洋环境的门户，并帮助整合整个大学系统的海洋项目。这一使命和研究所偏远、原始的地理位置为研究所提供了丰富的来访科学家和学生，他们寻求接触SKIO的教职员工、设施、附近的研究环境和独特的实践教育机会。该研究所地处偏远，因此现场住宿是必要的。许多游客和学生无法使用汽车交通工具。在过去的10年里，SKIO为学生和来访的科学家建造和翻新了一些公寓和住房单元。这一住房设施的组合全年都保持满或接近满的状态，接待学生、访问科学家和实习生，过去两年约有300名游客使用住房。在这种使用水平下，住房的可获得性限制了我们的教育和研究计划。关于具体研究或教学计划的相对优先次序，已经做出了艰难的决定，如果不建造额外的住房设施，SKIO就无法成功地完成或扩大其通过实地研究教育学生的使命。这项提案要求提供部分资金，以建造一套八间卧室的住房单元，其设计方式足够灵活，可以为最多16名学生的短期密集班提供服务，同时在实地项目不在驻地时仍可容纳规模较小的长期研究小组或个人。

A grant has been awarded to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, under the direction of Dr. James Sanders. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, a unit of the University System of Georgia, serves as a gateway to marine environments and helps to integrate marine programs throughout the University System. This mandate and the Institute's remote, pristine location have provided the Institute with a wealth of visiting scientists and students, seeking access to SkIO's faculty, facilities, near-by research environments, and unique, hands-on educational opportunities. The Institute's remote location makes on-site housing a necessity. Many visitors and students do not have access to automobile transportation. In the past 10 years, SkIO has built and renovated a number of apartments and housing units for students and visiting scientists. This combination of housing facilities remains filled at or near capacity throughout the year with students, visiting scientists and interns, with approximately 300 visitors using housing over the past two years. With this level of use, availability of housing has limited our educational and research programs. Difficult decisions have been made concerning the relative priorities of specific research or instructional programs, and SkIO cannot successfully meet or expand its mission to educate students through field oriented research without the construction of additional housing facilities. This proposal requests partial funding to construct an eight bedroom housing unit which is designed in a manner that is flexible enough to serve short-term, intensive classes of up to sixteen students while still accommodating smaller, longer-term research groups or individuals when field programs are not in residence.