FSML Improvements: Provision of a molecular ecology laboratory at the Shannon Point Marine Center

西华盛顿大学因在香农点海洋中心(SPMC)开发分子生态学实验室而获得资助。该实验室目前拥有广泛的生态学研究项目，包括野外生态学、海洋学研究、实验生态学、化学和生理生态学。该实验室将把现有的研究能力扩展到海洋生物的分子机制。SPMC的科学家将能够将环境与生理和分子机制联系起来，并将系统发育和进化史与萨利什海和其他海洋系统的生态功能联系起来。因此，SPMC建议购买一台台式基因组测序仪，其规格将确保负担得起、灵活性，并提供快速的结果周转，可以支持涉及学生研究的短期项目以及教师的长期需求。将获得提供现场样品准备和文件以及数据存储和分析的设备，以满足常驻和访问科学家和学生的需求。维护有效的设施，以支持下一代海洋科学专业人员的培训和海洋环境方面的研究，是方案成功的关键，特别是考虑到许多访问小岛屿发展中国家的学生来自无法接触海洋环境的机构。SPMC培训当地社区学院的教员，将海洋科学纳入入门课程的课程，这些学生通常不会攻读海洋科学或任何学科的科学学位。讲习班将把在海洋科学中使用分子工具作为培训的一部分。SPMC的公共教育倡议将当地的海洋生物带到教室和公共活动中，并展示了海洋科学家用来研究海洋环境的工具和技术。拟议的分子生态学实验室及其成果将使我们能够将海洋科学研究中的这一重要元素添加到我们与公众共享的信息中。欲了解有关香农角海洋中心的更多信息，请访问网站：http://www.wwu.edu/spmc/.。

Western Washington University is awarded a grant for is the development of a molecular ecology laboratory at the The Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC). The lab currently hosts extensive ecological research programs including field ecology, oceanographic research, experimental ecology, chemical and physiological ecology. The lab will extend existing research capacity to molecular mechanisms in marine organisms. Scientists at SPMC will be able to link environment to physiology and molecular mechanisms and to link phylogeny and evolutionary history to ecological function in the Salish Sea and other ocean systems. Accordingly, SPMC proposes to purchase a benchtop genome sequencer whose specifications will assure affordability, flexibility and provide for the rapid turnaround of results that can support short term projects that involve student research as well as the longer term needs of faculty. Equipment to provide for on-site sample preparation and documentation as well as data storage and analysis will be obtained to satisfy the requirements of resident and visiting scientists and students.Maintaining effective facilities to support both training of the next generation of marine science professionals and research in the marine environment is essential to program success, particularly given that many students visiting SPMC come from institutions that have no access to marine environments. SPMC trains faculty from local community colleges in incorporating marine science into the curricula of introductory courses, populated by students who typically will not pursue degrees in marine science or science of any discipline. Workshops will incorporate the use of molecular tools in marine science as part of the training. SPMC's Public Education Initiative brings local marine biota to classrooms and public events and demonstrates the tools and techniques that ocean scientists use to study the marine environment. The proposed molecular ecology laboratory and its outcomes will permit us to add this important element in the study of ocean science to the information that we share with public audiences. For more information about Shannon Point Marine Center, visit the web site at http://www.wwu.edu/spmc/.