Housing and Facility Enhancements for Visiting Scientists and Students at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

俄勒冈海洋生物学研究所访问科学家和学生的住房和设施增强

• 批准号: 0435692
• 负责人: Craig Young
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0435692&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Housing; Facility; Enhancements; Visiting; Scientists

A grant has been awarded to the University of Oregon under the direction of Dr. Craig Young for partial support of construction costs for new facilities that will be used by visiting investigators and students at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, Oregon. OIMB provides course work for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in many aspects of marine biology and supports year-round research using marine organisms. The lab, which occupies a 140-acre coastal campus with 26 buildings, has research facilities and laboratory space for visiting scientists, graduate students, and student groups. The new facilities will include dormitory updates and renovations, completion of meeting rooms, visitor offices and common-use computer laboratories and a new three-apartment housing unit for visiting investigators. The new facilities will permit broader usage of the running seawater labs and increased access to a diversity of field sites on the Oregon Coast. OIMB has become a center for studies of early life-history biology of marine animals and plants, as well as a destination for studies of estuarine biology, marine mammal studies, and the biology of introduced species. The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve occupies laboratory space on the OIMB campus and visitors to this nationally important natural area conduct a wide variety of research projects on estuarine ecology, conservation and restoration. In addition, OIMB supports research on deep-sea biology throughout the world oceans and many visitors come to work with resident faculty on deep-sea projects and expeditions. Students attend OIMB for course work in all aspects of marine biology, including but not limited to invertebrate biology, developmental biology, animal behavior, marine ecology, estuarine biology, marine birds and mammals, molecular physiology and phycology. OIMB supports education at the K-12 level through the MARE program, which serves as the science curriculum for local elementary schools and currently involves more than 2700 students in 110 classrooms taught by University of Oregon graduate students. The institution also serves as a focal point for community education in science and conservation, with numerous groups using the institute for conferences, lectures and courses. A quarterly public lecture series is well attended by the local community. Research at OIMB is mostly in the area of basic science, but it finds immediate application in regionally important fishery issues, in the science underlying marine protected areas in both deep and shallow water, in the impacts of exotic marine species, and in determining the mechanisms by which organisms adapt to changing environmental conditions on various time scales.

在克雷格·杨博士的指导下，俄勒冈州大学获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持新设施的建设费用，这些设施将由俄勒冈州查尔斯顿的俄勒冈州海洋生物研究所（OIMB）的访问调查人员和学生使用。 OIMB为高级本科生和研究生提供海洋生物学许多方面的课程，并支持全年使用海洋生物的研究。该实验室占地140英亩，拥有26栋建筑，拥有研究设施和实验室空间，可供来访的科学家，研究生和学生团体使用。 新设施将包括更新和翻修宿舍，完成会议室、访客办公室和共用计算机实验室，以及为来访调查员新建一个三套公寓的住房单元。 新设施将允许更广泛地使用运行中的海水实验室，并增加进入俄勒冈州海岸各种现场的机会。 OIMB已成为海洋动植物早期生活史生物学研究中心，也是河口生物学研究，海洋哺乳动物研究和引进物种生物学的目的地。 南斯劳国家河口研究保护区占据了OIMB校园的实验室空间，这个国家重要的自然区域的游客进行各种各样的河口生态，保护和恢复的研究项目。 此外，OIMB支持世界各地海洋的深海生物学研究，许多游客前来与深海项目和探险的常驻教师合作。 学生参加OIMB的课程工作在海洋生物学的各个方面，包括但不限于无脊椎动物生物学，发育生物学，动物行为，海洋生态学，河口生物学，海洋鸟类和哺乳动物，分子生理学和藻类学。 OIMB通过MARE计划支持K-12级别的教育，该计划作为当地小学的科学课程，目前涉及俄勒冈州大学研究生教授的110个教室的2700多名学生。 该机构还作为科学和保护社区教育的协调中心，许多团体利用该研究所举行会议，讲座和课程。 当地社区踊跃参加季度公开讲座系列。 在OIMB的研究主要是在基础科学领域，但它发现直接应用于区域重要的渔业问题，在科学基础的海洋保护区在深水和浅水，在外来海洋物种的影响，并在确定机制，生物体适应不断变化的环境条件在不同的时间尺度。