A Laboratory for the Culture of Oceanic and Deep-Sea Organisms

海港分支海洋研究所（HBOI）拥有最先进的潜水器和rov，处于独特的地位，可以在深水栖息地和大陆架深度进行生物研究，这些深度太大，无法用水肺到达。这些潜水器由NOAA、NSF、ONR、Seagrant和其他机构资助的科学家以及工作人员使用。由于这两艘HBOI支援船都有维护深水生物的移动式环境设施，因此可以将标本运送到港口，以便在巡航后进行额外的工作。然而，该机构用于控制温度、压力、光谱辐照度和其他环境参数的岸上设施是不够的。为了纠正这种情况，HBOI的海洋科学司目前正在整修一个实验室，作为培养和实验设施，用于研究水中和深海生物。该设施被简称为COOL（海洋生物培养实验室），将允许研究人员对从深水中收集的生物进行基于海岸的生理、行为、胚胎学和生态学研究。该项目将提供部分资金，用于配备实验室所需的一些基本设备，即环境室、循环水浴池和带有相关硬件的小型高压室。培养实验室与新指定的访问研究者实验室位于同一栋楼。这两个设施将作为研究生、博士后研究员和来自国内和国际科学界的工作人员的公共研究空间。

With its state-of-the-art submersibles and ROVs, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI) is in a unique position to conduct biological research in deep midwater habitats and at continental shelf depth too great to reach by SCUBA. The submersibles are used by scientists funded by NOAA, NSF, ONR, Seagrant and other agencies in addition to staff scientists. Because the two HBOI support ships, both have walk-in environmental facilities for maintaining deep-water organisms, specimens can be transported to port for additional work following cruises. However, the institution's shore-based facilities for controlling temperature, pressure, spectral irradiance and other environmental parameters are inadequate. To remedy this situation, the Division of Marine Science at HBOI is currently renovation a laboratory to serve as a culture and experimental facility for work with midwater and bathyal organisms. This facility, which has been given the acronym COOL (Culture of Oceanic Organisms Laboratory) will allow researchers to conduct shore-based physiological, behavioral, embryological and ecological research with organisms collected from deep waters. This project will provide partial funding for some of the capital equipment needed to outfit the laboratory, namely environmental rooms, circulating water baths, and a small hyperbaric chamber with associated hardware. The culture laboratory is to be located in the same building as a newly designated visiting investigator laboratory. Both facilities will be available as common-use research space for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff scientist from the national and international scientific community.