ARFMP: Renovation of Inadequate Ventilation Systems in Biological Research Facilities

学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP） 研究设施办公室的一项奖励为 费城自然科学院的翻新和 修复其费城总部的两座建筑， 研究部，容纳学院的生物研究 收藏品，以及主楼，它容纳研究和 水生生态学研究培训活动， 进化生物学 这些建筑物是在 分别于1978年和1872年。 两座建筑物中较新的一座 从来没有翻新过，旧的一个是最后一次装修， 1980. 研究拨款计划分别拨款二十万元及三十五万零九百元， 作为费用分摊，赠款将用于使这些研究现代化 和研究培训设施。 该项目将解决 需要改善现有的研究基础设施， 健康和安全以及研究质量， 进行翻新通风系统， 建筑 这些翻修将使 目前的实验室研究活动; 保护实验室实验的完整性， 控制空气质量、相对湿度的不利影响， 温度对系统学收藏;并允许 开展涉及放射性同位素的新活动， 致癌物质。 该奖项有助于科学的基础设施， 为开展研究提供更好的环境， 培养高素质的本科生和研究生。 在这些实验室培训的学生在两个基本的需求 应用研究领域。 此外，该项目将 有助于自然科学院的努力， 人力资源管道问题，涉及与 大学预科生

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the renovation and repair of two buildings at its Philadelphia headquarters, the Research Wing, which houses the Academy's biological research collections, and the Main Building, which houses research and research training activities in aquatic ecology and systematic and evolutionary biology. These buildings were constructed, respectively, in 1978 and in 1872. The newer of the two buildings has never been renovated and the older one was last renovated in 1980. The ARFMP grant of $200,000 and $350,900 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure in terms of health and safety as well as of the quality of research that can be conducted by renovating the ventilation systems in both of the buildings. These renovations will enable the continuation of current laboratory research activities; contribute to the preservation of the integrity of laboratory experiments and to the control of adverse effects of air quality, relative humidity, and temperature on the systematics collections; and permit the implementation of new activities involving radioisotopes and carcinogens. 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 and graduate students. Students trained in these laboratories are in demand in both basic and applied research fields. In addition, the project will contribute to the Academy of Natural Sciences' efforts directed toward human resources pipeline issues which involve working with pre-college students.