ARFMP: Renovation and Modernization of Marine Science Hall,Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium

由研究设施办公室颁发的这项学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖为阿拉巴马州海洋环境科学联盟提供资金，该联盟为21个州学术机构提供服务，其中包括三所以黑人为主的学院和大学，并运营和维护Dauphin Island Sea Lab，用于海洋科学大厅的翻新和维修以及附属建筑的更换。海洋科学馆拥有多学科的生物和行为科学研究以及沿海海洋科学的研究培训活动。这座建筑建于1950年，最后一次翻修是在1990年。受赠方提供的585,000美元和585,000美元的ARFMP赠款将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化。为了缓解过度拥挤和为合作调查提供适当的设施，该项目将解决通过修复或更换物理结构及其支持系统来改善现有研究基础设施的需要。这些变化的结果将是更多的实验室使用空间，以及创建一个视频分析设施和一个同位素设施。该奖项为科学和工程基础设施建设提供了一个更好的环境，有助于开展研究，并为本科生、研究生和博士后的跨学科研究提供培训。这一现代化项目为人力资源管道做出了进一步贡献，因为Dauphin Island海洋实验室有独特的能力向大学预科学生介绍海洋环境科学联盟的科学家和合作者所产生的知识。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of the state of Alabama, which serves 21 state academic institutions including three predominantly black colleges and universities and which operates and maintains the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, for the renovation and repair of Marine Science Hall and for the replacement of attendant buildings. Marine Science Hall houses multi-disciplinary biological and behavioral science research and research training activities in coastal marine science. This building was constructed in 1950 and last renovated in 1990. The ARFMP grant of $585,000 and $585,000 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. In order to relieve overcrowding and to provide suitable facilities for collaborative investigation, this project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by repair or replacement of the physical structure and its supporting systems. Resulting from these changes will be more space for laboratory use and the creation of a video analysis facility and an isotope facility. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science and engineering by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral students in interdisciplinary research. This modernization project makes a further contribution to the human resources pipeline because of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab's unique ability to introduce pre-college students to the knowledge generated by the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium's scientists and collaborators.