Provision Of A Marines Culture Laboratory At The Shannon Point Marine Center

西华盛顿大学（WWU）香农角海洋中心（SPMC）的斯蒂芬·苏尔金博士获得了一笔赠款，将目前的一个演讲厅改造成一个培训和研究实验室。SPMC的目标是建立一个设施基地，以支持驻地和访问科学家的研究;可以为学生提供有重点的、复杂的教学机会;并可以为海洋资源机构提供科学信息。新设施将满足SPMC对适当设计的空间的关键需求，以支持在实验室培养中维持海洋生物。 该设施培养的海洋动植物将用于培养本科生和理学硕士生。 这些养殖物种被常驻和访问科学家广泛使用，并形成了SPMC科学家和学生之间以及SPMC和全国其他机构之间的合作科学努力的基础。随着一座新大楼的演讲厅完工，待翻修的空间已经可用。 项目翻修将包括安装玻璃器皿洗涤槽、实验室准备区和实验室工作台，用瓷砖地板更换地毯，为相邻的显微镜室增加通风，为主要实验室提供海水，以及扩展应急备用电源以支持温度控制柜。 研究和本科生的培训在SPMC紧密相连。 来自全国各地的学生参加研究经验的本科生（REU）网站和少数民族在海洋科学本科课程将使用新的设施，将WWU本科生和研究生。 翻新后的设施将支持学生研究气候变化对食物网和珊瑚礁生物学的作用，使用化学防御猎物，以避免捕食（从而影响食物网动态），以及早期生命阶段的重要性在生态和商业上重要的渔业物种（如邓杰尼斯蟹和太平洋鲱鱼）的种群动态。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Stephen Sulkin at the Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC), Western Washington University (WWU) to renovate a current lecture hall into a training and research laboratory. The goal of SPMC is to develop a facilities base that can support the research of resident and visiting scientists; can promote a focused, sophisticated instructional opportunity for students; and can contribute scientific information to marine resource agencies. The new facility will meet a critical need at SPMC for appropriately designed space that can support the maintenance of marine organisms in laboratory culture. The marine plants and animals cultured in this facility will be used to train undergraduates and Masters of Science students. These cultured species are used extensively by resident and visiting scientists and form the basis of collaborative scientific efforts among scientists and students at SPMC and between SPMC and other institutions nationwide. The space to be renovated has become available with the completion of a lecture hall in a new building. Project renovations will include installation of a glassware wash sink, laboratory preparation area, and laboratory benches, replacement of carpeting with tile flooring, addition of ventilation to an adjacent microscope room, provision of seawater to the main lab room, and extension of emergency standby electrical power to support temperature control cabinets. Research and training of undergraduates are closely linked at SPMC. Students from around the nation participating in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site and Minorities in Marine Science Undergraduate Program will use the new facility, as will WWU undergraduates and graduate students. The renovated facility will support student research on the role of climate change on food webs and coral reef biology, the use of chemical defenses by prey to avoid predation (and thus influence food web dynamics), and the importance of early life stages in the population dynamics of ecologically and commercially important fisheries species (such as the Dungeness crab and Pacific herring).