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

佐治亚大学获得了一笔赠款，用于翻新位于萨佩洛岛的佐治亚大学海洋研究所的海水输送系统（http://ugami.uga.edu/）。运行的海水是UGA海洋研究所（UGAMI）的重要资源，这是一个世界知名的实地目的地，为来自美国各地和其他地区的研究人员和教育工作者提供服务。然而，目前的系统是不可靠的，并已达到其使用寿命结束。海水系统的入口位于退潮时非常浅的区域，因此水泵可能会干涸。此外，储运系统的老化和老化状况使它们不可靠，难以维护。升级将包括修改目前的系统，使其只在涨潮时泵入海水，并增加更大的储存罐，以便在泵不运行时能够提供海水。新系统还将包括预过滤、消毒装置、控制和报警系统，其容量将是现有系统的1.5倍，以支持未来的增长。这些升级解决了一项关键的需要，并且对于作为一个可行的实地监测站继续运作是必要的。UGAMI是众多机构的研究人员的实地站点，他们正在进行沿海生态系统的研究，以了解它们是如何运作的，跟踪它们如何随时间变化，并预测它们在未来可能受到的影响。他们每年发表大约40篇科学论文，并培养硕士和博士研究生。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所有这些用户受益，因为从冲洗样品到储存活生物体再到进行长期实验，这些用户都需要运行海水。它还将允许UGAMI适应长期住宿课程的额外使用，这些课程目前正在规划中。

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.