UC Santa Barbara Marine Laboratory SCUBA Compressor Improvement

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）获得了一笔拨款，用一种既能提供空气又能提供混合气体氮的升级型号替换过时的SCUBA空气压缩机。UCSB海洋实验室（http://msi.ucsb.edu）支持美国最大的研究潜水项目，教师和学生在各个校园部门进行国家科学基金会（NSF）资助的研究，包括：生态、进化和海洋生物学（EEMB）、分子、细胞和发育生物学（MCDB）、地理、地质、物理和工程以及海洋科学研究所、布伦环境科学与管理学院和地球研究所。升级后的SCUBA空气压缩机提供空气和氮气，将极大地提高校园潜水项目的安全性，培养更多受过良好教育和有能力的研究潜水员，并通过允许更长的海底时间和更短的研究潜水间隔来提高研究效率。氮氧潜水需要额外的生理、安全和装备方面的训练。有了这些资源，校园潜水项目可以提高美国水下科学学院（AAUS）潜水员培训的水平，高于行业标准，并改善我们与其他教育机构的培训合作。UCSB海洋潜水社区将得到新的SCUBA压缩机的支持，与当地非营利组织、教育机构、县和州当局以及社区外展组织合作。通过升级设备，在UCSB提供一个更安全、更方便的研究潜水项目，对当地、地区甚至全球都有深远的影响。研究潜水员在无数的专业领域工作，包括海洋酸化，海带森林生态学，生物材料，渔业，管理和可持续性。该实验室还为国内外访问研究人员提供资源，并为远至日本的众多教育和推广项目做出贡献。随着科学世界的发展，UCSB海洋实验室和潜水项目继续站在最前沿，帮助支持新的和通常后勤困难的研究项目。

The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is awarded a grant to replace an obsolete SCUBA air compressor with an upgraded model that supplies both air as well as mixed gas nitrox.The UCSB marine laboratory (http://msi.ucsb.edu) supports the largest research diving program in the United States with faculty and students conducting National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research across a variety of campus departments including: Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB), Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB), Geography, Geology, Physics, and Engineering as well as the Marine Science Institute, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and the Earth Research Institute. An upgraded SCUBA air compressor that provides air and nitrox gas will dramatically increase the safety of the campus diving program, produce more educated and capable research divers and increase the efficiency of research by allowing for longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals between research dives. Nitrox diving requires added training in physiology, safety, and equipment. Having this resource available allows the campus diving program to increase its level of American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) diver training above industry standards as well as improve our training collaborations with other educational institutions. The UCSB marine diving community that will be supported by the new SCUBA compressor collaborates with local non-profits, educational institutions, county and state authorities, and community outreach organizations. Providing a safer and more accessible research diving program at UCSB through upgraded equipment has far reaching effects on a local, regional, and even global scale. Research divers work in a myriad of specialties that include ocean acidification, kelp forest ecology, biomaterials, fisheries, management and sustainability. The lab also provides resources to visiting researchers, both domestic and foreign, and contributes to a multitude of education and outreach programs as far reaching as Japan. As the scientific world evolves the UCSB marine lab and diving program continues to stay at the forefront helping to support new and often logistically difficult research programs.