Seawater system utilization improvements at the Shannon Point Marine Center

在斯蒂芬·苏尔金博士的指导下，向西华盛顿大学提供了一笔赠款，以支持香农角海洋中心（SPMC）为海洋实验研究和教育改造和扩建海水设施。将作出的改进包括：翻新和重新设计占900平方英尺湿实验室的海水水位，湿实验室是海洋生物群活生物的主要保存区;在一个接受自然阳光的地方安装新的室外水箱;扩大现有实验室的一个房间的系统，为该房间提供流动的海水，该房间将成为一个额外的教学实验室;和安装仪器，以改善水质参数的监测在特定的网站的基础上。提供高品质的流动海水足够的容量和访问是必不可少的，几乎所有的研究和教学计划在香农点海洋中心（SPMC）。 一个适当的海水系统应该允许在SPMC提供的海洋科学类，使收集和把材料带回教室/实验室仔细研究;为我们提供的能力，使主校区类提前收集来SPMC在有时间限制的实地考察，以及来自其他学院的类实地考察;允许维持动植物和产卵用于实验研究;允许在流动的海水环境中直接应用适当的实验设计。这些基本功能支持几乎所有使用SPMC作为其研究和培训活动场所的常驻和访问科学家和学生。

A grant has been awarded to Western Washington University, under the direction of Dr Stephen Sulkin to support renovation and expantion of seawater facilities for experimental marine research and education at Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC). Improvements to be made include: renovation and redesign of the sea water tables that occupy the 900 sq ft wet laboratory that is the principal holding area for live marine biota; new outdoor tanks in an area that receives natural sunlight; extension of the system to provide running seawater in a room in an existing laboratory that will become an additional instructional laboratory; and installation of instrumentation to improve monitoring of water quality parameters on a site-specific basis.Provision of high quality running seawater of adequate capacity and access is essential to virtually all of the research and instructional programs at Shannon Point marine Center (SPMC). A proper seawater system should permit marine science classes offered at SPMC to make collections and bring the material back to the classroom/lab for careful study; provide us the ability to make advance collections for main campus classes that come to SPMC on time-limited field trips, as well as for classes coming from other colleges on field trips; allow for the maintenance of plants and animals and for the spawning of larvae for use in experimental research; and permit application of proper experimental design directly in a flowing seawater environment. These are fundamental functions that support virtually all resident and visiting scientists and students who use SPMC as the site of their research and training activities.