Seawater system utilization improvements at the Shannon Point Marine Center

香农角海洋中心海水系统利用改进

• 批准号: 0434066
• 负责人: Stephen Sulkin
• 金额: $ 5.51万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0434066&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Seawater; system; utilization; improvements; Shannon

A grant has been awarded to Western Washington University, under the direction of Dr Stephen Sulkin to support renovation and expantion of seawater facilities for experimental marine research and education at Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC). Improvements to be made include: renovation and redesign of the sea water tables that occupy the 900 sq ft wet laboratory that is the principal holding area for live marine biota; new outdoor tanks in an area that receives natural sunlight; extension of the system to provide running seawater in a room in an existing laboratory that will become an additional instructional laboratory; and installation of instrumentation to improve monitoring of water quality parameters on a site-specific basis.Provision of high quality running seawater of adequate capacity and access is essential to virtually all of the research and instructional programs at Shannon Point marine Center (SPMC). A proper seawater system should permit marine science classes offered at SPMC to make collections and bring the material back to the classroom/lab for careful study; provide us the ability to make advance collections for main campus classes that come to SPMC on time-limited field trips, as well as for classes coming from other colleges on field trips; allow for the maintenance of plants and animals and for the spawning of larvae for use in experimental research; and permit application of proper experimental design directly in a flowing seawater environment. These are fundamental functions that support virtually all resident and visiting scientists and students who use SPMC as the site of their research and training activities.

在Stephen Sulkin博士的指导下，西华盛顿大学获得了一笔赠款，用于支持香农角海洋中心（SPMC）用于实验海洋研究和教育的海水设施的翻新和扩建。要做的改进包括：翻新和重新设计占据900平方英尺潮湿实验室的海平面，该实验室是活海洋生物的主要保存区；在接受自然阳光的区域新建室外水箱；扩展系统，在现有实验室的一个房间内提供流动海水，该实验室将成为一个额外的教学实验室；并安装仪器，以提高对特定地点水质参数的监测。提供足够容量的高质量流动海水对香农角海洋中心（SPMC）几乎所有的研究和教学项目都至关重要。适当的海水系统应允许海洋科学课程收集资料，并将资料带回教室/实验室仔细研究；为来SPMC进行有时间限制的实地考察的主校区班级以及来自其他学院的实地考察班级提供提前收款的能力；允许植物和动物的维持和用于实验研究的幼虫的产卵；并允许在流动的海水环境中直接应用适当的实验设计。这些基本功能支持几乎所有使用SPMC作为研究和培训活动场所的常驻和访问科学家和学生。