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

北卡罗来纳州威尔明顿大学海洋研究中心。UNCW获得了一笔赠款，用于扩大和更新海洋研究中心（CMS）目前的码头设施。CMS提供的主要设备或共用设备作为核心设施运营。每个设施都有一个确定的教师作为设施的领导者，与CMS维护的技术支持和服务合同。这些设施是区域资源，可供教师和学生从任何其他组成校园（消耗品的成本）在一小部分的成本，将在其他地方收取。研究船运营核心设施的形成是为了管理和维护大学的研究船队。CMS运营着22艘大小不等的船只，从4米（13英尺）到11米（35英尺）的R/V海鹰到21米（68英尺）的R/V海角恐惧。CMS唯一直接进入该领域的是通过一个235米（770英尺）长的码头，该码头直接在沿海水道上设有一个大型平台，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分期研究。这笔赠款将通过在现有码头上增加72英尺（21米）的扩展来扩大现有码头，其中包括8个小船滑道，4个带船升降机的滑道和4个不带升降机的1 - 35英尺（11米）泊位，用于R/V Seahawk，以及额外的研究项目和贝类养殖。这一扩建/扩建将大大方便船只的使用，以满足海洋科学项目不断增长的科学、教育和推广需求。一个可靠的海洋科学项目需要可靠、装备精良的船只，便于进入海洋环境。此外，UNCW及其旗舰海洋科学计划的目标是增加各级海洋科学的体验式学习。CMS为100名教师提供实验室和现场访问，约500名本科生（海洋生物学，海洋学和物理学，可选择物理海洋学），约100名M.S.攻读海洋科学学位的学生;约20名攻读博士学位的学生。海洋生物学学位，60多名员工。专门用于研究、教育和公共宣传。随着大学的认证最近捆绑到质量提升计划，重点是通过应用学习体验变革教育（eTEAL）建立在大学的使命作为国家的沿海大学，预计使用我们的小船舰队在未来十年为“应用学习的启发跨学科和学科的探索”显着增加。此外，该中心与MarineQuest和沃森教育学院合作，为K至12岁的学生提供了30年的体验式学习机会;为18，000多名对海洋环境感兴趣的年轻人（进入第三代）提供了令人兴奋的学术充实机会，仅去年就有8，000多人。几乎新汉诺威县的每一个学生都曾参加过一个海洋探索项目，其中许多项目需要方便地进入船只。仅去年夏天，就有来自全国各地和国外的500多名10至17岁的学生参加了夏令营，他们使用了CMS的研究船。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/.