Upgrading Middlebury College's Floating Laboratory: A State-of-the-Art Research Vessel

升级明德学院的浮动实验室：最先进的研究船

• 批准号: 0963443
• 负责人: Patricia Manley
• 金额: $ 173.14万
• 依托单位: Middlebury 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: 2010-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963443&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrading; Middlebury; College; Floating; Laboratory

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project replaces the R/V Baldwin, a floating research laboratory used by Middlebury College in Vermont for hands-on, experiential, research training of students on Lake Champlain. The R/V Baldwin has reached the end of its useful life and will be replaced by a new, larger, more highly capable, "green", and seaworthy vessel outfitted to allow college student and faculty research projects to be carried out. Middlebury College is an undergraduate institution that is widely considered as an important engine for educating and training undergraduates who continue on to graduate school in the environmental sciences. The new vessel will double the number of people that can be present on the boat at any given time. Unlike the present vessel, which is restricted to shallow parts of the lake, the new ship will be able to fully navigate the lake, which will dramatically increase the types and numbers of research projects that can be carried out. The new vessel will impact research in disciplines as diverse as geology, biology, environmental science, and chemistry, enabling research in areas as diverse as hydrodynamics, paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, sedimentology, geophysics, aquatic ecology, and environmental chemistry. Broader impacts of the project include increasing the infrastructure for interdisciplinary science and the research training of large numbers of undergraduate students at Middlebury College and other local colleges and universities in Vermont, which is an EPSCoR state. It will also provide jobs in Washington State where the ship will be built. Other impacts include improved environmental assessment and monitoring of the 6th largest freshwater lake in the nation; one that serves the recreational and economic needs of a large number of people in the northeastern US. Research training of K-12 teachers who will use the vessel will be implemented. Public outreach using data collected by researchers using the vessel will be carried out through involvement with local maritime museums.

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。该项目取代了R/V Baldwin，这是佛蒙特州米德尔伯里学院用于对尚普兰湖上的学生进行动手、体验式研究培训的浮动研究实验室。R/V Baldwin已经达到其使用寿命的尽头，将被一种新的、更大、更高性能、“绿色”和适航的船所取代，以允许大学生和教职员工进行研究项目。米德尔伯里学院是一所本科院校，被广泛认为是教育和培训继续攻读环境科学研究生院的本科生的重要引擎。这艘新船将使在任何给定时间可以在船上的人数增加一倍。与目前仅限于湖浅部分的船不同，新船将能够完全在湖上航行，这将极大地增加可以开展的研究项目的类型和数量。这艘新船将影响地质学、生物学、环境科学和化学等多个学科的研究，使水动力学、古人类学、古气候学、沉积学、地球物理学、水生生态学和环境化学等领域的研究成为可能。该项目的更广泛影响包括增加跨学科科学的基础设施，并为米德尔伯里学院和佛蒙特州的其他地方学院和大学的大量本科生进行研究培训。佛蒙特州是EPSCoR州。它还将在华盛顿州提供就业机会，这艘船将在那里建造。其他影响包括改善了对全国第六大淡水湖的环境评估和监测；这个淡水湖服务于美国东北部大量人的娱乐和经济需求。将对将使用该船的K-12教师进行研究培训。将通过与当地海洋博物馆的参与，利用研究人员使用该船收集的数据进行公共宣传。