Student Housing for Instructional Programs and Field Research

在詹姆斯·桑德斯博士的指导下，Skidaway海洋学研究所获得了一笔赠款。Skidaway海洋学研究所是佐治亚大学系统的一个单位，作为海洋环境的门户，帮助整合整个大学系统的海洋项目。这项任务和研究所的偏远，原始的位置为研究所提供了丰富的访问科学家和学生，寻求访问SkIO的教师，设施，附近的研究环境，和独特的，动手教育的机会。该研究所的偏远位置使得现场住房成为必要。许多游客和学生没有汽车交通工具。在过去的10年里，SkIO为学生和访问科学家建造和翻新了许多公寓和住房单元。学生、来访的科学家和实习生全年都满员或接近满员，在过去的两年里，大约有300名游客使用了这些住房。由于这种程度的使用，住房的可用性限制了我们的教育和研究计划。在具体研究或教学项目的相对优先级方面做出了艰难的决定，如果不建造额外的住房设施，SkIO就无法成功地实现或扩大其通过实地研究教育学生的使命。该提案要求部分资金来建造一个八卧室的住房单元，其设计方式足够灵活，可以为多达16名学生的短期强化课程提供服务，同时在没有实地项目的情况下，仍然可以容纳较小的、长期的研究小组或个人。

A grant has been awarded to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, under the direction of Dr. James Sanders. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, a unit of the University System of Georgia, serves as a gateway to marine environments and helps to integrate marine programs throughout the University System. This mandate and the Institute's remote, pristine location have provided the Institute with a wealth of visiting scientists and students, seeking access to SkIO's faculty, facilities, near-by research environments, and unique, hands-on educational opportunities. The Institute's remote location makes on-site housing a necessity. Many visitors and students do not have access to automobile transportation. In the past 10 years, SkIO has built and renovated a number of apartments and housing units for students and visiting scientists. This combination of housing facilities remains filled at or near capacity throughout the year with students, visiting scientists and interns, with approximately 300 visitors using housing over the past two years. With this level of use, availability of housing has limited our educational and research programs. Difficult decisions have been made concerning the relative priorities of specific research or instructional programs, and SkIO cannot successfully meet or expand its mission to educate students through field oriented research without the construction of additional housing facilities. This proposal requests partial funding to construct an eight bedroom housing unit which is designed in a manner that is flexible enough to serve short-term, intensive classes of up to sixteen students while still accommodating smaller, longer-term research groups or individuals when field programs are not in residence.