FSML Planning for the Future of the Darling Marine Center

缅因州大学获得拨款，为位于缅因州中部海岸的达林海洋中心(The Center)进行战略规划。该中心正在转型，最近常驻教员的组成、资金来源和领导层都发生了重大变化。目标是为该中心制定一个十年远景，并为头五年制定具体的执行计划。它将包括目前和未来潜在的广大用户群体，目的是加强对该中心的研究、培训和教育用途。规划活动将包括常驻当地大学校园的教职员工之间的内部讨论、来访者委员会的深入审查和分析、当地利益攸关方研讨会，以及参观其他海洋实验室。将对该中心的数据管理政策、费用结构和营销策略进行评估。将根据在战略规划活动期间收集的信息编写一份报告，其中包括可采取行动的优先事项。该中心使访问和常驻研究人员能够通过其功能强大的R/V Ira C号进入河口和缅因湾开阔水域的各种微环境。访问和常驻研究人员在实验室进行的研究涉及广泛的主题，涉及沿海海洋生态系统的生态研究、关键物种的生理、生殖和发育生物学，以及包括人类在内的物种之间的相互作用。浮游生物研究包括对浮游生物及其对气候变化的反应的时间序列测量。拟议的规划活动及其对研究方案和基础设施的审查，将增强该中心的研究能力。该中心研究的许多物种具有很高的经济价值(例如龙虾和水产养殖的双壳类)，并与缅因州的经济直接相关。人类对缅因湾生态的影响直接影响到缅因州沿海社区的社会结构。该中心目前通过各种正式和非正式项目对从K到研究生院的学生进行教育和培训。COSEE-OS计划提供专业培训机会和网络研讨会，远远超出缅因州的范围。拟议规划进程的一个目标是扩大我们的教育和培训活动，并与服务于新英格兰代表性不足的少数族裔的机构建立新的联系。该中心是下一代学生的理想教室，也是决定我们未来如何最好地可持续利用地球资源的缩影。欲了解更多有关该中心的信息，请访问网站：http://www.dmc.maine.edu.

The University of Maine is awarded a grant to carry out strategic planning for the Darling Marine Center (the Center), located in mid-coast Maine. The Center is in transition with recent major shifts in the composition of resident faculty members, funding sources and leadership. The goal is to develop a decadal vision for the Center with concrete implementation plans for the first five years. It will be inclusive of the broad groups of present and potential future users, with the goal of enhanced research, training and educational uses of the Center. Planning activities will include internal discussion among faculty members resident at local university campuses, an in-depth review and analysis by a Committee of Visitors, local stakeholder workshops, and visits to other marine labs. Data management policies, fee structure, and marketing strategies for the Center will be evaluated. A report, with actionable and prioritized items, will be produced based on information gathered during the strategic planning activities. The Center enables access for visiting and resident researchers to a wide diversity of microenvironments along the estuary and to the open Gulf of Maine waters through its capable vessel, the R/V Ira C. The research carried out at the laboratory by visiting and resident researchers addresses a broad range of topics, spanning ecological studies of coastal marine ecosystems, the physiology and reproductive and developmental biology of key species, and the interactions among species including humans. Planktonic studies include time-series measurements of plankton and their responses to a changing climate. The proposed planning activity, with its review of research programs and infrastructure, will enhance the Center's capacity for research. Many of the species studied at the Center are of high economic value (e.g., lobster and aquacultured bivalves) and of direct relevance to Maine's economy. The impact of humans on the ecology of the Gulf of Maine has a direct feedback to the social fabric of Maine's coastal communities. The Center currently educates and trains students from K through graduate school through its various formal and informal programs. The COSEE-OS program provides professional training opportunities and webinars that reach far beyond the State of Maine. A goal of the proposed planning process is to expand our educational and training activities and establish new links to institutions serving underrepresented minorities in New England. The Center is an ideal classroom for the next generation of students and a microcosm for determining how we can best use Earth's resources sustainably in the future. For more information about the Center, please visit the website at http://www.dmc.maine.edu.