FSML: Experiential classroom modernization for the Duke University Marine Laboratory

杜克大学（Duke University）获得了一笔拨款，用于基础设施和设备改进，以作为其位于北卡罗来纳州博福特（Beaufort）的海洋实验室海洋科学体验式学习课程的所在地。这些改进措施包括安装视听系统，现代化和扩大个案工作，更换教学显微镜，更换海水台，以及升级设施以满足《美国残疾人法》的标准。这些教室服务于广泛的学术基础，包括杜克大学的本科生和研究生，以及来自30多所属于海洋科学与教育联盟（MSEC）的学院和大学的本科生。这些教室也被杜克人才识别项目暑期项目使用，该项目服务于全国各地的天才儿童（8至10年级），以及BOOST项目，该项目服务于代表性不足的小学和中学少数民族学生。海洋实验室是海洋系统的自然和社会科学研究和教育中心，在这里，nsf资助的研究人员和他们的学生研究人类与环境之间的相互作用。主要研究领域包括海洋哺乳动物保护生物学、海洋系统的生物声学和行为、海洋微生物和碳通量、环境社会学、海洋环境中的物理-生物相互作用、渔业政策和管理、化学生态学和地理空间生态学。海洋实验室位于北卡罗莱纳堰洲岛后面的海岸环境，易于进入自然和受干扰的环境，使其成为体验式学习的理想中心，拟议的教室改进将支持这些实地学习机会。

Duke University is awarded a grant for infrastructural and equipment improvements to a classroom building that serves as the home for experiential learning courses in marine sciences at its Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina. These classroom improvements include installation of audiovisual systems, modernization and expansion of casework, replacement of teaching microscopes, replacement of seawater tables, and upgrade of the facility to meet the standards of the American Disabilities Act. The classrooms serve a broad academic base that includes undergraduate and graduate students from Duke University and undergraduates from more than thirty colleges and universities that belong to the Marine Science and Education Consortium (MSEC). The classrooms are also used by the Duke Talent Identification Program summer program, which serves gifted children (grades 8 through 10) from around the country, and by the BOOST program, which serves under-represented minority students at elementary and middle school levels. The Marine Laboratory is a center for natural and social science research and education in marine systems, where NSF-funded researchers and their students study interactions between humans and the environment. Key research themes include conservation biology of marine mammals, bioacoustics and behavior in marine systems, marine microbes and carbon fluxes, environmental sociology, physical-biological interactions in the marine environment, fisheries policy and management, chemical ecology, and geospatial ecology. The coastal setting of the Marine Laboratory behind the barrier islands of North Carolina and the easy access to natural and disturbed environments makes it ideal as a center for experiential learning and the proposed classroom improvements will support these field-learning opportunities.