Renovation of Research Laboratories in the College of Marine Science-MSL Building

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目翻修南佛罗里达大学海洋科学学院海洋科学实验室的一套13个连续、陈旧和功能不全的研究实验室及其相关基础设施。翻新将允许在这些设施中工作的学生和教师在珊瑚礁，海洋光学，海洋质谱化学，海洋地球化学循环，气候变化，生物指示剂和化学传感器开发，海洋酸化和浮游生物研究等各种专题领域开展由NSF和其他机构资助的最先进的海洋研究。装修包括白蚁维修和安装金属外壳，安装新的通风柜，并更新电气，70岁的管道系统，25岁的暖通空调，并建立空气处理。 翻修将改善已成为健康和安全问题的不利条件。更广泛的影响包括通过提供现代化和安全的研究设施来增加科学基础设施，并大大提高研究生和本科生的研究培训和外部用户合作的能力。这项工作还将有利于当地在职K-12科学教师培训计划，以及该机构和教师通过夏季海洋学计划和中学科学学生通过海洋科学教师教授的电视海洋学课程向高中女生推广的努力。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project renovates a suite of 13 contiguous, outdated and marginally functioning, research laboratories and their associated infrastructure in the Marine Science Laboratory at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. Renovations will allow students and faculty working in these facilities to carry out state-of-the-art marine research funded by NSF and other agencies in a variety of topical areas such as coral reefs, ocean optics, marine mass spectrochemistry, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, bio-indicator and chemical sensor development, ocean acidification, and plankton studies among others. Renovations include termite repair and installation of metal casework, installation of new fume hoods, and updates to the electrical, 70 year-old plumbing system, 25 year-old HVAC, and to building air handling. The renovation will ameliorate negative conditions that have become health and safety issues. Broader impacts include increasing the infrastructure for science by providing modern and safe resaerch facilities and dramatically increasing capacity for graduate and undergraduate student research training and external user collaborations. the work will also benefit local in-service K-12 science teacher training programs as well as the institution's and faculty's efforts outreach to high school girls through summer oceanography programs and middle school science students via a televised oceanography courses taught by Marine Science faculty.