RUI: New Research Laboratory at the Bowdoin Scientific Station, Kent Island, New Brunswick

鲍登科学站（BSS）是位于新不伦瑞克省肯特岛的一个生物野外站。该岛被7公里长的沙滩和岩石潮间带环绕，包括125公顷的北方森林、古老的田野、草地和沼泽，可以很容易地到达芬迪湾和缅因湾的岛屿。自1935年以来，由鲍登学院拥有和支持的野外研究站促进了来自美国众多学院和大学的教师、研究生和本科生的生物研究，导致3000多次访问该站并发表了82篇科学论文。该站最近进行了管理改革，使设施和科学设备现代化，并扩大了研究计划。1988年，来自10个机构的研究人员研究了脊椎动物的社会行为、导航和定向、发育和饮食、种群生物学、大气化学和感觉生理学。随着越来越多的研究人员在空间站学习，以及他们日益复杂的研究需要更好的实验室设施，曾经足够的研究空间现在变得有限了。该项目提供的资金用于支付BSS新实验室翼楼建筑费用的50%。这笔资金将由鲍登学院提供。新实验室将为五个研究项目提供私人空间，并有一个公共区域供共享设备使用（微型计算机、数据记录仪、电子天平、显微镜等，这些设备已在BSS提供）。改善的设施将吸引顶尖的科学家，扩大BSS的研究范围，并增加本科生的研究机会。

The Bowdoin Scientific Station (BSS) is a biological field station located on Kent Island, New Brunswick. The island, ringed by 7 km of sandy beaches and rocky intertidal, comprises 125 ha of boreal forest, old fields, meadows, and marsh, and has easy access to islands in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine. Since 1935 the field station, owned and supported by Bowdoin College, has promoted biological research by faculty, graduate students and undergraduates from numerous U.S. colleges and universities, resulting in over 3000 visits to the station and the publication of 82 scientific papers. The field station has recently had a change in administration, modernized facilities and scientific equipment, and expanded the research program. In 1988, investigators from 10 institutions studied vertebrate social behavior, navigation and orientation, development and diet, population biology, atmospheric chemistry, and sensory physiology. Research space that once was adequate is now limiting as more researchers study at the station and as their increasingly sophisicated research requires better laboratory facilities. This project provides funds to cover 50% of the construction costs of a new laboratory wing at BSS. The funds will be matched by Bowdoin College. The new laboratory will provide private space for five research projects, with a common area for shared equipment (microcomputers, data loggers, electronic balances, microscopes, etc., already available at BSS). Improved facilities will attract leading scientists, widen the scope of research at BSS, and enhance undergraduate research opportunities.