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

在Craig Young博士的指导下，俄勒冈大学获得了一笔拨款，用于部分支持新设施的建设成本，这些设施将用于俄勒冈州查尔斯顿的俄勒冈海洋生物研究所（OIMB）的访问研究者和学生。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进行研究。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，供访问科学家、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、访客办公室和公用计算机实验室，并为来访调查人员提供一个新的三间公寓住房单位。新设施将允许更广泛地使用正在运行的海水实验室，并增加进入俄勒冈海岸多种现场的机会。海洋生物研究所已成为海洋动植物早期生活史生物学研究的中心，也是河口生物学、海洋哺乳动物研究和引进物种生物学研究的目的地。南斯劳国家河口研究保护区占据了OIMB校园的实验室空间，游客可以在这个国家重要的自然区域进行各种各样的河口生态、保护和恢复研究项目。此外，OIMB还支持世界各地的深海生物学研究，许多游客来到这里与常驻教师一起进行深海项目和探险。学生在OIMB学习海洋生物学的各个方面的课程，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、分子生理学和生理学。OIMB通过MARE项目支持K-12阶段的教育，该项目作为当地小学的科学课程，目前有2700多名学生在俄勒冈大学研究生授课的110个教室中学习。该机构还作为科学和保护社区教育的中心，许多团体利用该机构召开会议、讲座和课程。每季度一次的系列公开讲座深受当地社区的欢迎。海洋局的研究主要是在基础科学领域，但它在区域重要渔业问题、深海和浅水海洋保护区的基础科学、外来海洋物种的影响以及确定生物在不同时间尺度上适应不断变化的环境条件的机制等方面立即得到应用。

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.