Acquisition of a Research and Teaching Salt Water Flume at Priest Landing, GA

在佐治亚州 Priest Landing 购买研究和教学盐水水槽

• 批准号: 0829448
• 负责人: Marc Weissburg
• 金额: $ 23.37万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0829448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Research; Teaching; Salt; Water

The Georgia Tech Research Corporation - Georgia Institute of Technology is awarded a grant to to build a flume at the Priest Landing Marine Laboratory, located adjacent to Wassaw Sound (Skidaway Island). The proposed flume at Priest Landing replaces an outdated flume located on the SkIO campus and fills a critical gap in facilities infrastructure in the region. The flume is designed to create flow conditions that mimic the tidal channels in the surrounding coastal environment near the lab. The size will be sufficient to generate realistic flow and boundary layer conditions and provide a large working section for animal experiments and will incorporate features such as Plexiglas channel walls, false bottom for a sediment section , and rails for an instrument carriage. The capabilities of the facility will support a variety of fluid physical, sediment transport, and behavioral or ecological studies including ecological interactions mediated by chemosensation tracking, the ecology of defensive chemical signaling, river/riverbed porewater contaminant exchange, transport of consolidated, cohesive sediments abraded by non-cohesive sediments, coherent structures in pulsatile flows, sediment erosion and bridge scour, and turbulence modeling in tidal flows. Potential users of the versatile flume facility include faculty and students from Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech Savannah, Savannah State University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Columbus State University, Georgia Southern University (affiliated with Tech through the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program, GTREP), the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO), and other institutions. The flume also will be used for graduate and undergraduate student training through laboratory and capstone courses, individual research projects, and NSF REU-Site programs on Aquatic Chemical Ecology and field ecology. Finally, use the facility will be used for K-12 science education via affiliation with the Savannah Science Seminar Series. Additional information about Priest Landing Marine Laboratory may be found at http://www.biology.gatech.edu/Priest_Landing_Marine.html.

该格鲁吉亚技术研究公司-格鲁吉亚技术研究所被授予赠款，以建立一个水槽在牧师登陆海洋实验室，位于毗邻瓦索湾（斯基德韦岛）。Priest Landing拟建的水槽取代了SkIO校园内过时的水槽，填补了该地区设施基础设施的关键空白。水槽的设计是为了创造流动条件，模仿潮汐通道在周围的沿海环境附近的实验室。尺寸将足以产生真实的流动和边界层条件，并为动物实验提供一个大的工作部分，并将包括有机玻璃通道壁，沉积物部分的假底和仪器托架的轨道等功能。该设施的能力将支持各种流体物理，沉积物输运和行为或生态研究，包括化学感觉跟踪介导的生态相互作用，防御性化学信号的生态学，河流/河床孔隙水污染物交换，固结的粘性沉积物的运输，粘性沉积物被非粘性沉积物磨损，脉动流中的连贯结构，沉积物侵蚀和桥梁冲刷，以及潮汐流中的湍流模型。多功能水槽设施的潜在用户包括来自格鲁吉亚理工学院、格鲁吉亚理工萨凡纳学院、萨凡纳州立大学、阿姆斯特朗大西洋州立大学、哥伦布州立大学、格鲁吉亚南方大学（通过格鲁吉亚理工区域工程项目隶属于理工学院）、斯基达韦海洋学研究所（SkIO）和其他机构的教师和学生。水槽还将用于研究生和本科生的培训，通过实验室和顶点课程，个人研究项目，和NSF REU现场计划水生化学生态学和现场生态学。最后，使用该设施将用于K-12科学教育通过隶属于萨凡纳科学研讨会系列。关于牧师登陆海洋实验室的更多信息可在http://www.biology.gatech.edu/Priest_Landing_Marine.html上找到。