Upgrade of Sanitation and Communication Systems at Shoals Marine Laboratory

康奈尔大学获得了改善浅滩海洋实验室(www.sml.cornell.edu)的赠款，该实验室是缅因州阿普普莱罗岛上的一个季节性野外研究站。废水处理将进行升级，以提高以本科生为重点的独特知识界的研究和培训能力。安装商业堆肥厕所，以及2009年建造的化粪场，将：1)消除缅因州环保部规定的废物海洋排放；2)减少淡水使用；3)减少能源消耗；4)降低运营成本。从降低成本中收回的资金将再投资于支持学术项目。浅滩海洋实验室的使命是为本科生提供教育、研究和保护培训。阿普普莱诺尔岛是一座占地95英亩的岛屿，位于缅因湾内华达州朴茨茅斯东南6英里处，地理位置优越，可以方便地进入潮间带、潮下带、海洋和陆地栖息地，并有机会研究可持续工程以及电力、水和废水系统的整合。该站自1966年以来由康奈尔大学和新汉普郡大学运营，拥有6200名校友。每年夏天，来自世界各地的约170名本科生注册参加约20个学分课程。实习计划的目标是本科生研究人员、工程学学生和保护生物学家，他们成功地积极主动地实现了多样性和包容性。该设施为长期进行的主要研究和调查计划提供服务，保护阿普莱诺雷丰富的环境，并为航空地图的大气观测站(http://airmap.unh.edu/).)提供海洋平台低环境影响技术不仅被用来保护阿普莱索尔岛和周围水域，而且还被用来向所有岛屿游客展示这些技术。

Cornell Univeristy is awarded a grant to improve the Shoals Marine Laboratory (www.sml.cornell.edu), a seasonal field research station on Appledore Island, Maine. Wastewater treatment will be upgraded to increase capacity for research and training in a unique intellectual community focused on undergraduates. Installation of commercial composting toilets, together with a septic field built in 2009, will: 1) eliminate ocean discharge of wastes as mandated by Maine DEP; 2) reduce freshwater use; 3) reduce energy use; and 4) reduce operating costs. Funds recovered from reduced costs will be reinvested to support academic programs. The mission of Shoals Marine Laboratory is education, research, and conservation training for undergraduates. Appledore Island, a 95 acre island six miles southeast of Portsmouth, NH in the Gulf of Maine, is an extraordinary physical location that offers easy access to intertidal, subtidal, oceanic, and terrestrial habitats and opportunities to study sustainable engineering and integration of power, water, and wastewater systems. Operated by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire since 1966, the station has an alumni base of 6,200. Each summer, ~170 undergraduates from all over the world enroll in ~20 credit courses. The internship programs target undergraduate researchers, engineering students, and conservation biologists with a successful proactive approach to diversity and inclusiveness. The facility serves long-term ongoing major research and survey programs, conserves Appledore's rich environments, and provides an oceanic platform for AIRMAP's atmospheric observatory (http://airmap.unh.edu/). Low environmental impact technologies are used not only to protect Appledore Island and surrounding waters but also to demonstrate them to all island visitors.