SSSC Plumbing and Energy Reliability Improvements

锡特卡声音科学中心（SSSC）支持在阿拉斯加东部海湾进行的科学研究，这是研究北太平洋和汤加斯的重要地点，汤加斯是该国最大的国家森林。在阿拉斯加湾海洋的变化将对世界经济和当地社区产生巨大影响之际，一大批科学家在美国一个极其重要的地理区域进行海洋生物研究，那里的气候、海洋学和生物学变化正在受到密切监测。SSSC与加州大学圣克鲁斯分校、阿拉斯加大学、斯克里普斯海洋学研究所、史密森尼学会、斯坦福大学、杜克大学、华盛顿大学、阿拉斯加渔猎部和NOAA等知名组织建立了正式和非正式的伙伴关系，许多研究人员的实地工作和科学实验需要可靠的系统。SSSC位于阿拉斯加州锡特卡，是一个33%阿拉斯加原住民的社区，为少数民族和农村沿海社区成员提供研究和教育机会。该设施接待了许多NSF资助的访问科学家，并开展自己的研究和科学教育计划，这些计划也得到了NSF的支持。此外，它每年为数千名游客和学生提供非正式的科学教育体验。 SSSC接待了数百名当地和非当地的k-16学生作为实习生，在营地，实地课程和课后计划中，他们将有机会进行成功的教育研究项目，因为这些改进。该提案将通过安装备用盐水进水系统来改善海水系统，以确保从北太平洋到锡特卡实地站的可靠盐水流，更换从水泵到设施的污染和恶化的盐水管道，并为整个设施提供备用发电。工程师、建筑师和主要利益攸关方编制的完整设施总体规划中列出了经过改善的基础设施。这个简单的项目是在与该地区依赖盐水的其他设施协商后设计的。这个物理工厂改进项目将在可靠性对进行有意义的研究至关重要的岛屿位置创建重要的系统冗余和设施支持。可靠的供水和能源备份系统将确保在锡特卡声音科学中心的湿实验室进行的实验具有可靠的科学完整性。这些改进还将有助于提高产能，因为它们将与为我们的设施设计的热交换系统兼容。SSSC网站是http://www.sitkascience.org/。

The Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) supports scientific research conducted in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska, an important location for study of the North Pacific and the Tongass, the country's largest national forest. A broad array of scientists conduct marine biological research at a time when changes to the ocean in the Gulf of Alaska will have dramatic impacts on world economies and local communities, in a critically important geographic part of the United States where changes in the climate, oceanography and biology are being monitored closely. With formal and informal partnerships with high profile organizations such as the University of California Santa Cruz, University of Alaska, Scripps Oceanographic Institution, the Smithsonian, Stanford, Duke, University of Washington, Alaska Department of Fish and Game and NOAA, the SSSC hosts many researchers whose field work and scientific experiments require dependable systems. Located in Sitka, Alaska, a community that is 33% Alaska Native, SSSC provides research and educational opportunities for minorities as well as rural coastal community members. The facility hosts many NSF-funded visiting scientists, and it conducts its own research and science educational programs which are also supported by the NSF. Additionally, it provides informal science educational experiences to thousands of visitors and students each year. SSSC hosts hundreds of local and non-local k-16 students as interns, in camps, field courses, and after school programs, who will have opportunities to conduct successful educational research projects because of these improvements.This proposal will improve the seawater system by installing a back up saltwater intake system to ensure reliable saltwater flow from the North Pacific to the Sitka-based field station, replacement of fouled and deteriorated salt water plumbing from the pump to the facility and backup power generation for the entire facility. The improved infrastructure has been laid out in a completed facility master plan prepared by engineers, architects and major stakeholders. This straightforward project has been designed with consultation with other facilities that rely on saltwater in the region. This physical plant improvement project will create important system redundancy, and facility support in an island location where dependability is critical to conduct meaningful research. Reliable water delivery and energy backup systems will ensure dependable scientific integrity for experiments conducted in the wet laboratories of the Sitka Sound Science Center. These improvements will also help build capacity as they will be compatible with a heat exchange system designed for our facility. The SSSC website is at http://www.sitkascience.org/.