An upgraded seawater system for the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island

萨佩洛岛乔治亚大学海洋研究所升级的海水系统

• 批准号: 1522464
• 负责人: Merryl Alber
• 金额: $ 35.62万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1522464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: upgraded; seawater; system; University; Georgia

The University of Georgia is awarded a grant to renovate the seawater delivery system at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island (http://ugami.uga.edu/). Running seawater is a vital resource for the UGA Marine Institute (UGAMI), which is a world-renowned field destination that serves researchers and educators from throughout the U.S. and beyond. However, the current system is unreliable and has reached the end of its useful life. The intake of the seawater system is in an area that is extremely shallow during low tides, such that the pumps can run dry. Moreover, the advanced age and degraded condition of the storage and delivery system render them unreliable and difficult to maintain. The upgrade will involve modifying the present system so that it only pumps seawater during high tide, and adding larger storage tanks to be able to provide seawater when the pumps are not running. The new system will also include pre-filtration, a disinfection unit, and a control and alarm system, and will be designed with a capacity of 1.5 times that of the current system in order to support future growth. These upgrades address a critical need and are necessary for the continued operation of UGAMI as a viable field station.UGAMI serves as the field site for researchers from numerous institutions, who are conducting studies of coastal ecosystems to understand how they function, to track how they change over time, and to predict how they might be affected in the future. They publish approximately 40 scientific papers per year and also train graduate students at both the master's and doctoral level. It also hosts upwards of 2000 undergraduate students per year from universities throughout the country, as well as teacher training and other workshops. The upgraded seawater system will benefit virtually all of these users, who require running seawater for everything from rinsing samples to storing live organisms to conducting long-term experiments. It will also allow UGAMI to accommodate additional usage from longer-term residential courses, which are now being planned.

格鲁吉亚大学获得一笔赠款，用于翻修萨佩洛岛格鲁吉亚大学海洋研究所的海水输送系统（http：//ugami.uga.edu/）。 运行海水是UGA海洋研究所（UGAMI），这是一个世界知名的领域的目的地，服务于来自美国各地的研究人员和教育工作者的重要资源。然而，目前的系统不可靠，已经达到其使用寿命。海水系统的入口位于低潮时极浅的区域，因此泵可能会干涸。此外，储存和运送系统年久失修，状况恶化，使其不可靠，难以维护。升级将涉及修改现有系统，使其仅在涨潮时泵送海水，并增加更大的储罐，以便在泵不运行时提供海水。新系统还将包括预过滤、消毒单元以及控制和报警系统，其设计容量将是当前系统的1.5倍，以支持未来的增长。这些升级满足了一个关键需求，是UGAMI作为一个可行的野外站继续运行所必需的，UGAMI是众多机构研究人员的野外站点，他们正在对沿海生态系统进行研究，以了解它们如何运作，跟踪它们如何随着时间的推移而变化，并预测它们未来可能受到的影响。他们每年发表约40篇科学论文，并培养硕士和博士水平的研究生。它每年还接待来自全国各地大学的2000多名本科生，以及教师培训和其他讲习班。升级后的海水系统将使几乎所有这些用户受益，他们需要运行海水来进行从冲洗样本到储存活生物体到进行长期实验的一切工作。它还将使UGAMI能够容纳目前正在计划的长期住宿课程的额外使用。