A multipurpose seawater flume

华盛顿大学获得一笔赠款，用于购买一个带有力平衡的海水水槽，以升级星期五港实验室的研究设施。 FHL位于太平洋西北部的圣胡安群岛，为来自世界各地的研究人员提供服务。这个水槽将提供所有的研究生产力的破旧跑道水槽它取代，并将吸引新的研究人员到实验室。自动化多轴力平衡还将利用实验室的优秀模型构建设施。该水槽的仪器尚未用于比较生物力学研究，将为附着的生物体提供最完整和生物相关的力测量。这一设备的广泛影响将在许多层面和长期及短期内感受到。 FHL是一个NSF REU网站，几位导师将利用新的功能。 研究生教育将通过在感觉神经生物学，生物力学和鱼类功能形态学课程中使用水槽来加强。研究生的研究将受益，因为驻地科学家将指导学生的水槽为基础的项目，和主校园导师也将利用该系统。 水槽也是FHL最受欢迎的公共宣传工具之一。 在开放日和图尔斯参观期间，水槽中的静态模型和流动中的生物是我们最受欢迎的站点之一。 所有这些影响都是即时的，并将在购买新水槽时显现出来，但也有对被吸引到实验室的研究人员的方向和质量的长期影响。 我们的发展轨迹在一定程度上是由我们过时的赛道水槽塑造的，来自不同国家的许多用户专门来到FHL使用该设备。新的水槽将吸引新的研究人员基地，并加强与现有研究界的联系。更多信息可以在http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/上找到。

The University of Washington is awarded a grant to acquire a seawater flume with a force balance to upgrade the research facility at the Friday Harbor Laboratories. FHL is located in the Pacific Northwest, in the San Juan Islands, and serves a diverse community of researchers from around the world. This flume will provide all of the research productivity of the decrepit racetrack flume it replaces, and will draw new researchers to the labs. The automated multi-axis force balance will also leverage the excellent model building facilities at the labs. The instrumentation with this flume has not been used in comparative biomechanics research and will provide the most complete and biologically relevant force measurements for attached organisms. The broader impacts of this equipment will be felt at many levels and both long and short time frames. FHL is an NSF REU site and several mentors will make use of the new capabilities. Graduate education will be enhanced through the use of the flume in the Sensory Neurobiology, Biomechanics, and Functional Morphology of Fishes courses. Graduate student research will benefit because resident scientists will mentor students on flume based projects, and main campus mentors will also make use of the system. The flume is also one of FHL's most popular public outreach tools. During the open house and tours static models in the flume and organisms in flow have been one of our most popular stations. All of these effects are immediate and will be manifest upon purchase of the new flume, but there is also the long-term effect on the direction and quality of the researchers who are attracted to the labs. Our trajectory has, in part, been shaped by our outdated racetrack flume, with many users from different countries specifically coming to FHL to use that equipment. The new flume will attract a new researcher base and strengthen ties with the existing research community. More information may be found at http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/.