ARFMP: Modernization of Marine Biological Research Facilities

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为缅因大学提供资金，用于修复和翻新默里大厅和温斯洛普利比大厅，该大厅是该机构海洋生物和生物海洋学研究和研究培训活动的所在地。这两座建筑分别建于1968年和1962年。默里大厅从那以后就没有翻修过，温斯洛普·利比大厅在1965年和1970年进行了小范围的扩建，但自建成以来，它从未进行过任何重大翻修。受资助者提供的ARFMP赠款10万美元和110 550美元作为费用分摊，将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化，这些设施是在一组高生产力的合作海洋动物学研究人员的支持下进行的。该项目将解决在健康和安全、建筑系统和空间配置方面改善现有研究基础设施的需求。该项目符合机构一级的优先事项，即扩大研究和研究生培训并强调海洋和生物科学，在区域一级扩大以缅因湾为重点的研究；在国家一级发展分子生物学在海洋科学和渔业海洋学中的应用。该奖项通过为进行研究和培养高素质的本科生、研究生和博士后提供更好的环境，为科学基础设施做出了贡献。教师和访问学者的专业发展也将从这次革新中获益。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the University of Maine for the repair and renovation of Murray Hall and Winthrop Libby Hall which house that institution's marine biological and biological oceanography research and research training activities. These buildings were constructed, respectively, in 1968 and 1962. Murray Hall has not since been renovated, and Winthrop Libby Hall has been expanded by small additions in 1965 and 1970, but it has never had any major renovations since the time of its construction. The ARFMP grant of $100,000 and $110,550 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities which are under the aegis of a group of highly productive, collaborative marine zoological researchers. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure both in terms of health and safety and of building systems and the configuration of the space. The project is consistent with priorities at the institutional level to expand research and graduate training and to emphasize marine and biological sciences, at the regional level to expand research focused on the Gulf of Maine, and at the national level to develop thrusts in application of molecular biology to ocean sciences and in fisheries oceanography. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students. The professional development of the faculty and their visiting scientists will also accrue from this renovation.