Visitors' Laboratory at the University of Guam Marine Lab

关岛大学海洋实验室访客实验室

• 批准号: 1223146
• 负责人: Terry Donaldson
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Guam
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1223146&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Visitors; Laboratory; University; Guam; Marine

The University of Guam is awarded funding to remodel an existing indoor, air-conditioned space at its Marine Laboratory (UOGML)to create a dedicated laboratory for visiting researchers and thus providing a resource currently lacking at the facility. Established in 1970, the UOGML http://www.guammarinelab.com/ serves the US-affiliated islands of Micronesia, including the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Belau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. As the only U.S. marine research station in the equatorial Pacific that includes a modern research laboratory, UOGML is important in meeting the research and educational needs of the region as well as supporting research by visiting scientists. No other U.S. facility provides both a well equipped laboratory and easy access to the diverse flora and fauna near the epicenter of marine biodiversity in the tropical western Pacific Ocean, thus serving as a research and educational gateway to a wide variety of biomes from shallow coral reefs to the Mariana Trench (the deepest biome in Earth's oceans).UOGML provides access to Guam's marine and terrestrial habitats with access to research assets and equipment as well as project support. The dedicated visitors' laboratory will help visitors make the most of these assets, increase visitor productivity and encourage the wider use of the UOGML by visitors. As a resource for scientific discovery, the new laboratory will also encourage scientists from around the world to conduct research at a geographically and academically isolated marine laboratory, thus expanding productive research activity at UOGML and also providing both faculty and students with a more vibrant intellectual atmosphere. The lab will promote new and higher levels of scientific collaboration between UOGML and other researchers, especially across disciplines and across biomes given Guam's unique geographical setting. UOGML is especially important to the under-served people of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific-island nations who depend on UOGML for training and scientific expertise. This group has relatively few other opportunities locally for academic training in marine biology or scientific research in general and also limited opportunity for interacting with the larger international scientific community. Thus, increasing visiting-scientist activity at UOGML will benefit the scientific and educational capacity of the region directly.

关岛大学获得资金，用于改造其海洋实验室现有的室内空调空间，为访问研究人员建立一个专门的实验室，从而提供该设施目前缺乏的资源。UOGML http://www.guammarinelab.com/成立于1970年，服务于美国附属的密克罗尼西亚群岛，包括关岛领土、北方马里亚纳群岛联邦、密克罗尼西亚联邦、贝劳共和国和马歇尔群岛共和国。作为美国在赤道太平洋唯一一个拥有现代化研究实验室的海洋研究站，UOGML在满足该地区的研究和教育需求以及支持访问科学家的研究方面发挥着重要作用。没有其他美国设施既能提供设备齐全的实验室，又能方便地接触热带西太平洋海洋生物多样性中心附近的各种植物群和动物群，因此，作为研究和教育的门户，从浅水珊瑚礁到马里亚纳海沟，UOGML为关岛的海洋和陆地生境提供研究资产和设备以及项目支持。专门的游客实验室将帮助游客充分利用这些资产，提高游客的生产力，并鼓励游客更广泛地使用UOGML。 作为科学发现的资源，新实验室还将鼓励来自世界各地的科学家在地理和学术上孤立的海洋实验室进行研究，从而扩大UOGML的生产研究活动，并为教师和学生提供更充满活力的学术氛围。该实验室将促进UOGML和其他研究人员之间新的和更高水平的科学合作，特别是考虑到关岛独特的地理环境，跨学科和跨生物群落的合作。UOGML对美国服务不足的人特别重要- UOGML是太平洋岛屿国家的附属机构，他们依赖UOGML提供培训和科学专业知识。 这一群体在当地接受海洋生物学学术培训或一般科学研究的其他机会相对较少，与更广泛的国际科学界互动的机会也有限。因此，增加UOGML的访问科学家活动将直接有利于该地区的科学和教育能力。