FSML: Improvements to the Capacity of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory

FSML：提高科瓦洛海洋实验室的能力

• 批准号: 1624600
• 负责人: Robert Richmond
• 金额: $ 19.92万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624600&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Improvements; Capacity; Kewalo; Marine

The Kewalo Marine Laboratory (KML) is one of only three marine research facilities in the state of Hawaii, which uses modern molecular techniques along with other laboratory and field-based research to understand basic principles of marine biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem responses. Faculty, postdoctoral associates, undergraduate and graduate students and visitors are all involved in research of fundamental importance and applied value for academic, environmental, biomedical and conservation science. Research at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory uses marine organisms to study a variety of biological phenomena and processes that range from molecules to ecosystems. The common thread in all KML research programs is the important use of molecular techniques that require specific instrumentation to detect, quantify, and manipulate small quantities of rare and precious biomaterials from organisms maintained in a high quality flow through sea water system. New and upgraded equipment and instrumentation will help KML users keep pace with ever-evolving molecular techniques and associated research opportunities through access to new multi-user instruments and an upgraded flowing seawater system and will enhance and expand research and training capabilities at KML. The instruments will allow students and trainees to employ cutting edge technologies to address fundamental problems in cellular, developmental, evolutionary, and environmental biology of the unique Hawaiian marine biodiversity. The improvements will also support training programs for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island students who are highly under-represented in the STEM disciplines.Marine laboratories provide unprecedented access to a diversity of organisms and associated research opportunities unavailable at most research universities. At the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, uniquely situated adjacent to living coral reefs near downtown Honolulu, researchers and their trainees use modern cellular and molecular approaches to investigate a wide variety of basic biological phenomena using a full range of marine organisms, including molluscs, annelids, flatworms, reef corals and marine microbes. The new instruments and seawater facilities will not only facilitate research by the resident researchers of KML (and their diverse undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows), but will bolster the active Visiting Scientist program. Improvements will be used to support both research and training efforts, allowing a diverse group of students to gain a better understanding of key biological processes that will help in the preservation of unique local and regional marine ecosystems. Additional details on the facility, and associated research and training programs can be found on the KML website: http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/index.php

Kewalo海洋实验室（KML）是夏威夷州仅有的三个海洋研究设施之一，它使用现代分子技术沿着其他实验室和实地研究，以了解海洋生物多样性、复原力和生态系统反应的基本原则。 教师，博士后助理，本科生和研究生以及访客都参与了对学术，环境，生物医学和保护科学具有根本重要性和应用价值的研究。 Kewalo海洋实验室的研究使用海洋生物来研究从分子到生态系统的各种生物现象和过程。 所有KML研究项目的共同点是分子技术的重要应用，这些技术需要特定的仪器来检测，量化和操纵少量稀有和珍贵的生物材料，这些生物材料来自于保持在高质量的海水系统中的生物体。 新的和升级的设备和仪器将帮助KML用户通过获得新的多用户仪器和升级的流动海水系统，跟上不断发展的分子技术和相关研究机会的步伐，并将增强和扩大KML的研究和培训能力。这些工具将使学生和学员能够采用尖端技术来解决夏威夷独特海洋生物多样性的细胞，发育，进化和环境生物学中的基本问题。 这些改进还将支持夏威夷土著和太平洋岛屿学生的培训计划，这些学生在STEM学科中的代表性非常低。海洋实验室提供了前所未有的生物多样性和大多数研究型大学无法提供的相关研究机会。 Kewalo海洋实验室地理位置独特，毗邻檀香山市中心附近的活珊瑚礁，研究人员及其受训人员利用现代细胞和分子方法，利用各种海洋生物，包括软体动物、环节动物、扁形虫、珊瑚礁和海洋微生物，调查各种基本生物现象。新的仪器和海水设施不仅将促进KML的常驻研究人员（以及他们多样化的本科生，研究生和博士后研究员）的研究，而且将支持活跃的访问科学家计划。 改进将用于支持研究和培训工作，使不同群体的学生能够更好地了解有助于保护独特的地方和区域海洋生态系统的关键生物过程。 有关该设施的其他详细信息，以及相关的研究和培训计划，可以在KML网站上找到： http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/index.php