FSML: Expansion of Small Boat Dockage Facility at the Center for Marine Research

北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校海洋研究中心。unw获得了一笔赠款，用于扩大和更新海洋研究中心（CMS）的现有码头设施。CMS提供的主要设备或共用设备作为核心设施运行。每个设施都有一名指定的教员作为设施负责人，由CMS维护技术支持和服务合同。这些设施是任何北卡罗来纳大学组成校区的教师和学生都可以使用的区域资源（消耗品费用），费用是其他地方收取的一小部分。科考船运作核心设施成立，以管理和维持大学的科考船队。CMS运营着22艘船，大小从4米（13英尺）到11米（35英尺）的R/V海鹰号到21米（68英尺）的R/V恐惧角号。CMS唯一的直接进入现场的途径是通过一个235米（770英尺）长的码头，该码头直接位于沿海航道上，只有一个永久泊位用于支持长达25米（80英尺）的研究船，通常由R/V Cape Fear占用，以及2个小型浮动平台用于进行研究。这笔拨款将通过在现有码头上增加一个72英尺（21米）的扩建部分来扩大目前的码头，该码头将包括8个小船码头，4个带船吊的码头和4个不带船吊的码头，1 - 35英尺（11米）的泊位，带R/V海鹰的起重机，以及用于其他研究项目和贝类养殖的空间。这一扩建/扩建将极大地方便船只的使用，以满足海洋科学项目不断增长的科学、教育和推广需求。一个可信的海洋科学项目需要可靠的、装备精良的船只，并能方便地进入海洋环境。此外，unw及其旗舰海洋科学项目的目标是增加各级海洋科学的体验式学习。CMS为100名教师，约500名本科生（海洋生物学，海洋学和物理学，物理海洋学选修），约100名攻读海洋科学学位的硕士学生提供实验室和实地访问；海洋生物学专业在读博士20人，教职工60余人。有专门的空间用于研究、教育和公众宣传。随着最近大学的认证与一项质量提升计划的联系，该计划的重点是通过应用学习体验变革性教育（eTEAL），该计划建立在大学作为国家沿海大学的使命基础上，预计在未来十年中，我们的小型船队将用于“跨学科和教学法探索的应用学习”，这将大大增加。此外，该中心与MarineQuest和沃森教育学院合作，为K至12年级的学生提供了30年的体验式学习机会；为超过18,000名对海洋环境感兴趣的年轻人（进入第三代）提供令人兴奋的学术丰富机会，仅去年就有超过8,000人。实际上，新汉诺威县的每个学生都曾参加过MarineQuest项目，其中许多学生都需要方便地使用船只。仅去年夏天，就有500多名来自全国各地和国外的10至17岁的学生参加了暑期寄宿营，他们利用了CMS的科考船。有关CMS的更多信息，请访问http://uncw.edu/cms/。

University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) Center for Marine Research. UNCW is awarded a grant to expand and update the current dockage facilities at the Center for Marine Researh (CMS). Major pieces of equipment or shared use equipment that are provided by CMS are operated as CORE Facilities. Each facility has an identified faculty member as the facility leader, with technical support and service contracts maintained by CMS. These facilities are regional resources available to faculty and students from any UNC constituent campus (for the cost of expendables) at a fraction of the costs that would be charged elsewhere. The Research Vessel Operations Core Facility was formed to manage and maintain the University's research fleet. CMS operates 22 vessels ranging in size from 4 meters (13 feet) to the 11 m (35 foot) R/V Seahawk to the 21-meters (68-foot) R/V Cape Fear. CMS's only direct access to the field is via a 235 meter (770 ft) long dock with a large platform directly on the Intracoastal Waterway with only one permanent berth for support of research vessels up to 25 meters long (80 feet), normally occupied by the R/V Cape Fear, and 2 small floating platforms for staging research. This grant will expand the current dock by adding a 72 ft (21 m) extension to the existing dock that will include 8 small boat slips, 4 slips with boat hoists and 4 without, 1 - 35 ft (11 m) berth with hoist for the R/V Seahawk, a well as space for additional research projects and shellfish culturing. This expansion/extension will greatly ease access to the boats for the ever expending scientific, educational and outreach needs of the marine science at program.A credible marine science program needs reliable, well-equipped vessels with easy access to the marine environment. In addition, UNCW and its flagship marine science program has a goal of increasing experiential learning in marine science at all levels, K to Gray. CMS provides laboratory and field access for 100 faculty, ~ 500 undergraduate students (Marine Biology, Oceanography and Physics with option in Physics Oceanography), ~ 100 M.S. students pursuing marine science degrees; ~ 20 students pursuing Ph.D. degrees in Marine Biology, and 60+ staff. with dedicated space for research, education and public outreach. With the recent tying of the University's accreditation to a Quality Enhancement Plan focused on Experiencing Transformative Education through Applied Learning (eTEAL) built upon the University's mission as the state's coastal university, projected use of our small boat fleet in the next decade for "applied learning inspired by explorations across academic disciplines and pedagogies" to increase dramatically. In addition, in partnership with MarineQuest and Watson School of Education, the Center offered experiential learning opportunities for K to 12 students for 30 years; providing exciting academic enrichment opportunities for over 18,000 young people (entering 3rd generation) interested in the marine environment, with over 8,000 just in the last year. Virtually every student in New Hanover County has at one time participated in a MarineQuest program, many of which have need of easy access to vessels. Last summer alone, more than 500 students ages 10 to 17 from across the country and abroad who participated in summer boarding camps made use of CMS research vessels. For more information about CMS visit http://uncw.edu/cms/.