Laboratory renovation at the Ocean Research College Academy at Everett Community College

埃弗里特社区学院海洋研究学院的实验室改造

• 批准号: 0963104
• 负责人: Ardi Kveven
• 金额: $ 27.61万
• 依托单位: Everett Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; renovation; Ocean; Research; College

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project transforms makeshift research laboratory space at Everett Community College into a mainstream research laboratory with adequate electrical, water, and gas, a fume hood, seawater holding tank, and other requirements necessary for carrying out marine science research. The renovated lab will support the shore-based analytical and modeling aspects of on-going field studies of the environmental monitoring by students and faculty of the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) at Everett Community College. ORCA has pioneered a unique and effective research training program for high-school students, many of them from disadvantaged backgrounds or who are from groups under-represented in the sciences. ORCA students learn first-hand, though inquiry-based, hands-on, research experiences that foster the questioning nature of science and how to use data to support ideas and hypotheses. ORCA science focuses on environmental research and the monitoring of the northeastern arm of Puget Sound, a location local to the college and for which the local community has a high level of interest in preserving and understanding its present and future environmental functioning and vitality. ORCA research involves monthly research expeditions aboard a local charter vessel that allows students to collect data and analyze trends in ocean chemistry, seabed composition, plankton diversity, and marine bird and marine mammal abundance and distribution. The new facility will allow studies of CO2 and nutrient cycling in the Sound and their impact on its water chemistry and organism development to be realized. Broader impacts of the newly renovated facility include enhancing infrastructure for science that fully integrates education and research for students from under-served populations engaged in carrying out environmental research of an important part of the Washington State coastline. Additional impacts include improving facilities that serve ORCA faculty, most of whom are women, two of whom are of Native American descent, and all of whom serve as positive role models for students. The project also enables collection and publication of data that addresses environmental concerns in the Puget Sound area, includes student-driven public outreach that showcases research results and demonstrates the excitement of discovery through scientific investigation.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。该项目将埃弗雷特社区学院的临时研究实验室空间改造成一个主流研究实验室，拥有足够的电力、水和天然气、通风柜、海水储水箱以及开展海洋科学研究所需的其他条件。翻新后的实验室将支持埃弗雷特社区学院海洋研究学院(ORCA)的学生和教职员工正在进行的环境监测实地研究的岸基分析和建模方面。虎鲸为高中生开创了一项独特而有效的研究培训计划，他们中的许多人来自贫困背景或来自科学界代表性不足的群体。虎鲸学生通过以探究为基础的亲身实践研究经验，培养了科学的质疑性质，以及如何使用数据来支持想法和假设。虎鲸科学专注于环境研究和对普吉特湾东北部分支的监测，普吉特湾是该学院的一个地方，当地社区对保护和了解其现在和未来的环境功能和活力有着高度的兴趣。虎鲸的研究包括每月在当地一艘租船上进行研究探险，允许学生收集数据并分析海洋化学、海底组成、浮游生物多样性以及海洋鸟类和海洋哺乳动物的丰度和分布的趋势。新的设施将使研究海湾中的二氧化碳和营养循环及其对水化学和有机体发育的影响得以实现。新翻修的设施的更广泛影响包括加强科学基础设施，为从事华盛顿州海岸线重要部分环境研究的服务不足人群的学生充分整合教育和研究。其他影响包括改善为ORCA教职员工服务的设施，他们中的大多数是女性，其中两人是美洲原住民后裔，所有这些人都是学生的积极榜样。该项目还能够收集和发布数据，解决普吉特湾地区的环境问题，包括由学生推动的公共宣传，展示研究成果，并展示通过科学调查发现的兴奋。