UC Santa Barbara Marine Laboratory SCUBA Compressor Improvement

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校(UCSB)获得了一笔赠款，用来更换过时的潜水空气压缩机，以提供空气和混合气体氮氧化物。UCSB海洋实验室(http://msi.ucsb.edu))支持美国最大的研究潜水计划，教职员工和学生开展国家科学基金会(NSF)资助的各种校园系的研究，包括：生态学、进化和海洋生物学、分子、细胞和发育生物学、地理学、地质学、物理学和工程学，以及海洋科学研究所、布赖恩环境科学与管理学院和地球研究所。升级的Scuba空气压缩机提供空气和氮氧化物气体，将极大地提高校园潜水计划的安全性，培养更多受过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表面间隔来提高研究效率。Nitrox潜水需要额外的生理、安全和设备培训。有了这些资源，校园潜水项目就可以提高其美国水下科学学院(AAU)潜水员培训的水平，超过行业标准，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，该社区与当地非营利组织、教育机构、县和州当局以及社区外联组织合作。通过升级设备在UCSB提供更安全、更容易获得的研究潜水项目，在当地、地区甚至全球范围内都会产生深远的影响。研究潜水员从事各种专业，包括海洋酸化、海藻森林生态、生物材料、渔业、管理和可持续发展。该实验室还为国内外的访问研究人员提供资源，并为一系列远至日本的教育和外展项目做出贡献。随着科学界的发展，UCSB海洋实验室和潜水项目继续处于领先地位，帮助支持新的、往往在后勤方面困难的研究项目。

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.