FSML: Acquisition of Controlled Environmental Spaces for Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Skidaway海洋学研究所获得了一笔赠款，以提高Skidaway海洋学研究所（SkIO）的能力，为海洋科学的实验研究提供环境控制条件。额外的基础设施改进是对分析设施的重要补充，并将允许研究人员在使用实验室和仪器的同时进行受控的微观实验或在校园内维持敏感的生物体。基础设施的升级包括两个部分：(1)要求资金用于建设两个流动海水实验室，其中的空气温度、海水温度和光线可以控制在适度的公差范围内；(2)要求资金用于购买和安装两个步入式环境室，这些环境室将为要求更高的实验工作提供严格监管的环境。新设施将被安置在校园现有的结构中，方便实验室使用。拟议的设施将大大改善SkIO？具备在校园开展实验生物研究和生态研究的能力。更广泛的影响：Skidaway服务于非常多样化的学生群体，是佐治亚大学系统中大量其他部分的研究生教育中心。他们与K-12的学生和老师以及当地社区都有很好的联系。他们与附近的几所HBCU机构有密切的合作。与克拉克亚特兰大大学合作的环境创业项目将直接受益于基础设施的改善。此外，研究所于2007年为本地社区举办海洋科学日，向他们介绍本地的海洋研究和环境问题，有超过3000人参加。该研究所设有一个演讲者局，每年向当地社区提供50多场讲座。该研究所有一个双向电话会议系统，使SkIO的讲座可以传送到格鲁吉亚各地约300个地点，而且由于对格鲁吉亚内陆地区接触的增加，使人们对实验室的研究和培训机会更加感兴趣。

The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is awarded a grant to improve the capacity of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) to provide environmentally-controlled conditions for experimental studies in the marine sciences. The additional infrastructure improvements are an essential complement to the analytical facilities, and will allow researchers to perform controlled microcosm experiments or maintain sensitive organisms on campus while using the laboratories and instrumentation. The upgrades to infrastructure have two components: (1) funds are requested for the construction of two flowing seawater laboratories in which air temperature, seawater temperature, and light can be controlled to modest tolerances, and (2) funds are requested for the purchase and installation of two walk-in environmental rooms that will provide tightly regulated environments for more demanding experimental work. The new facilities will be housed within an existing structure on campus that is convenient to laboratories. The proposed facilities will significantly improve SkIO?s capacity to do experimental biological research and ecological research on campus.Broader Impacts: Skidaway serves a very diverse population of students and is a hub for graduate education at a large number of other parts of the Univ. of Georgia system. They have good outreach to K-12 students and teachers, as well as to the local community. They have strong collaborations with several nearby HBCU institutions. The Environmental Entrepreneurship Program in collaboration with Clark Atlanta University will directly benefit from the infrastructure improvements. In addition, the Institute hosts a Marine Science Day for the local community which was attended by over 3000 people in 2007 and informs them of local marine research and environmental issues. The Institute maintains a speaker's bureau which provides more than 50 lectures/year to local communities. The Institute has a bi-directional teleconferencing system that permits lectures at SkIO to be transmitted to some 300 locations around Georgia and this increase exposure to the land-locked areas of Georgia has increased interest in research and training opportunities at the lab.