Improvement of Light Microscope Capabilities and Multi-User Phytoplankton Culture Facilities at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

毕格罗实验室是一个私人的、非盈利的研究机构， 实验室约20名主要研究人员，所有 从事海洋生物研究。 所有学科 场应用于回答有关的基本问题， 世界海洋环境。 毕格罗实验室因其高质量而受到尊重 研究气氛，但许多设备不是国家的， 该项目涉及的研究领域， 毕格罗已经展示了领导力：浮游植物生产力; 最小的光合海洋生物的生物学 真核生物和原核生物，包括通过 包括色素分析和免疫分析在内的各种技术 反应，它们在自然界中的计数和分布， 结构，以及对海洋生产和全球 硫循环;缅因州湾海洋学;生物学 当地鱼类种群和某些无脊椎动物。 项目 将提供显微设备（明场，相位对比， 落射照明、落射荧光和立体），以及藻类 用于实验目的的培养箱。这些项目将 提高海洋文化中心的利用率 浮游植物与流式细胞术和细胞分离 Bigelow实验室的设施。

Bigelow Laboratory is a private, non-profit research laboratory with approximately twenty principal investigators, all involved in marine biological research. All disciplines of the field are applied to answer fundamental questions about the world's marine environment. Bigelow Laboratory is respected for its high quality research atmosphere, but much of the equipment is not state-of- the-art. This project concerns areas of research in which Bigelow has demonstrated leadership: phytoplankton productivity; the biology of the smallest photosynthetic marine organisms both eukaryotic and prokaryotic, including their identification by various techniques including analysis of pigments and of immune reactions, their enumeration and distribution in nature, their structure, and contribution to marine production and the global sulfur cycle; the oceanography of the Gulf of Maine; the biology of local fish populations and certain invertebrates. The project will provide microscopic equipment (brightfield, phase contrast, epi-illumination, epifluorescence, and stereoscopic), and algal culture boxes for experimental purposes. These items will increase the utilization of the Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton and the Flow Cytometry and Cell Separation facilities housed at the Bigelow Laboratory.