FSML: Research Space for the Marine Biological Laboratory's Marshview Field Station

海洋生物实验室（MBL）获得了一笔赠款，用于扩大其在波士顿北部梅岛湾附近的马什维尤野外站的设施。梅岛地区的研究包括对周边流域的研究，以及对河口地区和广阔的潮汐沼泽的研究。梅岛沼泽被认为是新英格兰地区最大、最重要的盐沼之一。除了支持主要的商业和休闲鱼类和贝类渔业外，该地区还是世界著名的候鸟栖息地。该地点吸引了来自全国各地的研究人员，是梅岛生态系统长期生态研究地点的所在地。拟议的项目将在现有的谷仓上增加一个附加部分，从而将现场实验室的空间增加1345平方英尺，是目前可用空间的三倍多，并且还提供符合ADA标准的空间。该项目将密封现有谷仓的外壳，使其不受风雨影响，并改善照明、管道和电气服务。这将允许研究人员使用谷仓干储存，冰箱和冰柜。这些改进还将为支持该地区自动化仪器的计算机提供全年的加热空间。服务器当前位于站点外的未加热空间。该项目的完成将大大提高研究人员使用该站点的能力，使MBL能够继续扩大其研究基础，并通过将更多来自其他机构的科学家和学生纳入梅岛的研究和教育，促进跨站点的比较。此次翻新还将极大地增强我们项目的教育和推广成分：1)允许来自不同项目的本科生和研究生进行互动；2)提供足够的实验室空间，供大学班级在春季和秋季使用该场地进行夜间实地考察；3)为我们的教育活动提供基本的实验室空间，包括K-12和高中教师培训；4)以无害环境的方式进行翻新，从而加强我们对公众的宣传活动，重点关注人类用水和污水处理对流域的影响。欲了解更多关于Marshview野外站的信息，请访问http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/content/research-facilities。

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is awarded a grant to expand its facilities at the Marshview Field Station near Plum Island Sound, north of Boston. Research in the Plum Island area includes research on the surrounding watersheds, as well as the estuarine areas and extensive tidal marshes. The Plum Island marshes are considered to be among the largest and most important salt marshes left in New England. In addition to supporting major commercial and recreational finfish and shellfish fisheries, the region is a world-renowned habitat for migratory birds. The site attracts researchers from all over the country and is home to the Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research site. The proposed project will build an addition onto an existing barn and thereby increase the field laboratory space by 1,345 ft2 more than tripling the space currently available, and also provide space that is ADA compliant. The project will seal the shell of the existing barn to make it weather tight and provide for improvements in the lighting, plumbing and the electrical service. This will allow researchers to use the barn for dry storage, refrigerators, and freezers. The improvements will also provide year-round heated space for the computers that support automated instrumentation in the area. The server is currently in unheated space off site. Completion of this project will significantly improve the ability of researchers to use the site, allow the MBL to continue to broaden its research base, and facilitate cross-site comparisons by incorporating more scientists and students from other institutions into research and education at Plum Island. The renovations will also greatly enhance the educational and outreach components of our program by: 1) allowing undergraduate and graduate students from different programs to interact; 2) providing laboratory space sufficient for University classes to use the site for overnight field trips during the spring and fall; 3) providing basic lab space for our educational activities, which include K-12 and high school teacher training, 4) renovating in an environmentally sound manner, thereby strengthening our outreach activities to the general public, which focus on the impacts of human water use and sewage disposal in the watershed. For more information about the Marshview Field Station, please visit http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/content/research-facilities.