FSML: Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies Animal Care and Experimental Aquaculture System

Romberg Tiburon环境研究中心是由旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（SFSU）运营的海洋实验室，该大学以本科为主，少数民族入学率为57%。 Romberg Tiburon中心（RTC）是美国最大的河口之一旧金山弗朗西斯科湾唯一的学术研究机构，它是一个专注于研究使命的设施，旨在从根本上了解旧金山弗朗西斯科湾及其周围环境的物理和生物过程。 RTC的研究科学家在过去五年中培训和支持了80多名研究生和本科生，并与其他大学以及联邦和地方环境机构的科学家进行了广泛的合作。 该中心的18名研究科学家及其学生目前正在进行的研究项目从研究河口无脊椎动物的解毒机制到研究南极的浮游生物动态。 1998年8月，三名新的研究人员和一名新的终身教职员工加入了RTC。 作为其致力于该中心的持续证据，该大学已承诺在未来5年内再聘请四名终身教职员工。 此外，RTC于1996年启动了一项访问科学家计划，每年支持一名访问科学家。 人员的急剧增加导致了研究和教学的多样化和丰富，以及本科生和研究生使用该中心的相应急剧增加。RTC研究和教育计划中剩余的基本缺失部分是提供流动海水的设施，用于河口和海洋生物的护理和实验操作。 几个RTC的教职员工（4）有目前的NSF支持的研究项目，包括活生物体的实验工作的方面。 其他教师和科学家有能源部，国家卫生研究院和加州水资源部的资金进行研究，需要流动的海湾或海水。 旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区的合作者对位于旧金山弗朗西斯科湾的一个拥有最先进的海湾和海水系统的研究、动物护理和水产养殖设施表示了浓厚的兴趣。 本提案的主要目标是建立一个现代化的海水设施，提供水箱、水位、加热装置和一个最先进的计算机硬件和软件系统，以精确控制该系统。 该设施将支持RTC内部科学家和外部当地教育工作者和科学家的众多研究和教育活动。

The Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies is a marine laboratory operated by San Francisco State University (SFSU), a predominantly undergraduate institution with a 57% minority enrollment. The Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) is the only academic research facility on San Francisco Bay, one of the largest estuaries in the U.S. It is a facility with a tightly focused research mission aimed toward gaining fundamental understanding of the physical and biological processes of San Francisco Bay and its surrounding environments. Research scientists at RTC have trained and supported over 80 graduate and undergraduate students in the last five years and have extensive collaborations with fellow university, and federal and local environmental agency scientists. Current research projects being conducted by the Center's 18 research scientists and their students range from studies of detoxification mechanisms of estuarine invertebrates to studies of plankton dynamics in the Antarctic. Three new researchers, and a new tenure track faculty member, joined RTC in August 1998. As continuing evidence of its dedication to The Center, the University has committed to hire four additional tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years. Additionally, RTC initiated a Visiting Scientist Program in 1996 that supports a visiting scientist at the Center annually. This dramatic increase in personnel has resulted in a diversification and enrichment of research and teaching, and a corresponding dramatic increase in undergraduate and graduate use of the Center.A remaining fundamental missing piece in the research and educational program at RTC is a facility to provide flowing seawater for care and experimental manipulation of estuarine and marine organisms. Several RTC faculty and staff (4) have current NSF support for research projects that include aspects of experimental work on live organisms. Other faculty and scientists have funding from DOE, NIH, and the California Department of Water Resources to conduct research which requires flowing bay or seawater. San Francisco Bay Area collaborators have expressed strong interest in a facility with a state-of-the-art bay and seawater system for research, animal care and aquaculture located on San Francisco Bay. The primary objective of this proposal is to create a modern seawater facility by providing the tanks, water tables, heating unit and a system of state-of-the-art computer hardware and software for precise control of the system. This facility will support the numerous research and educational activities of internal RTC scientists and external local educators and scientists.