Provision of a Research Microscope and a Gas Chromatography System in Support of Research at the Shannon Point Marine Center

西华盛顿大学（WWU）建立了 Shannon Point Marine Center（SPMC）， 海洋科学研究和教育方面的新举措。 SPMC位于战略位置，提供直接进入 各种各样的海洋和河口栖息地，包括 广泛保护湿地、大型植物、河口 沼泽和岩石潮间带。 SPMC的设施 为当地河口研究提供了独特的机会 过程，如当地流域的生产力， 营养循环和再生，微生物生态学， 底栖生物代谢;石油对环境的影响 精炼;以及鱼类和无脊椎动物的生活史。 这 该项目将扩大在这些研究的机会， 通过获取光学显微镜系统， 场，相衬，微分干涉衬度， 落射荧光和显微照相术。 这将允许 对藻类至关重要的分解和发光技术， 原生生物、微生物和胚胎学研究，并将 扩展我们新获得的图像分析功能 系统 该项目还将为一种天然气提供支持 色谱系统，将允许分析 烃污染 沉积物和组织 按照普吉特海湾中规定的分析方法 协议. 这些新设施将主要用于 支持WWU教师和访问调查员的研究 也将被用于学术项目， 将研究纳入课程。 ** *

Western Washington University (WWU) has established the Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC) as the focal point for new initiatives in research and education in marine science. SPMC is strategically located, providing direct access to a wide a variety of marine and estuarine habitats, including extensive protected wetlands, macrophytes, estuarine marshes, and rocky intertidal zones. The facilities of SPMC provide unique opportunties for research on local estuarine processes, such as productivity of local watersheds, nutrient cycling and regeneration, microbial ecology, and benthic metabolism; on environmental impacts of petroleum refining; and on fish and invertebrate life histories. This project will expand the opportunities for research in these areas by acquisition of a light microscopy system, with dark field, phase contrast, differential interference contrast, epifluorescence, and photomicrography. This will permit the resolution and episluorescence technology critical to algal, protistan, microbial, and embryological research, and will expand the capabilities of our newly-acquired image analysis system. The project will also provide support for a gas chromatography system that will permit analysis of hydrocarbon contamination in sediments and tissues following analytical procedures specified in the Puget Sound Protocols. These new facilities will be used primarily to support research by WWU faculty and visiting investigators and also will be employed in academic programs that incorporate research into the curriculum. ** *