Housing and Facility Enhancements for Visiting Scientists and Students at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

在克雷格·杨博士的指导下，俄勒冈大学获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持俄勒冈州查尔斯顿俄勒冈海洋生物研究所(OIMB)的访问研究人员和学生使用新设施的建设成本。OIMB为海洋生物学许多方面的高级本科生和研究生提供课程作业，并支持全年使用海洋生物的研究。该实验室占地140英亩，拥有26栋建筑，拥有研究设施和实验室空间，可供来访的科学家、研究生和学生团体使用。新的设施将包括宿舍的更新和翻新，完成会议室、访客办公室和通用计算机实验室，以及一个供访问调查人员使用的新的三公寓住房单元。新设施将允许更广泛地使用运行中的海水实验室，并增加对俄勒冈海岸各种野外地点的访问。OIMB已成为海洋动植物早期生活史生物学研究的中心，也是河口生物学、海洋哺乳动物研究和引进物种生物学研究的目的地。南斯劳国家河口研究保护区占据了OIMB园区的实验室空间，参观这个国家重要自然区的游客可以进行各种河口生态、保护和恢复方面的研究项目。此外，OIMB支持世界各地的深海生物学研究，许多参观者前来与常驻教员一起进行深海项目和探险。学生参加OIMB的所有海洋生物学方面的课程作业，包括但不限于无脊椎动物生物学、发育生物学、动物行为、海洋生态学、河口生物学、海洋鸟类和哺乳动物、分子生理学和生理学。OIMB通过MARE计划支持K-12级别的教育，MARE计划是当地小学的科学课程，目前有超过2700名学生在俄勒冈大学研究生授课的110个教室中学习。该机构也是社区科学和保护教育的中心，有许多团体使用该研究所的会议、讲座和课程。当地社区每季度举办一次公开系列讲座，参加人数很多。海洋管理和管理组织的研究主要集中在基础科学领域，但在具有区域重要性的渔业问题、深水和浅水海洋保护区的基础科学、外来海洋物种的影响以及确定生物适应各种时间尺度上不断变化的环境条件的机制方面都有直接的应用。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Oregon under the direction of Dr. Craig Young for partial support of construction costs for new facilities that will be used by visiting investigators and students at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, Oregon. OIMB provides course work for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in many aspects of marine biology and supports year-round research using marine organisms. The lab, which occupies a 140-acre coastal campus with 26 buildings, has research facilities and laboratory space for visiting scientists, graduate students, and student groups. The new facilities will include dormitory updates and renovations, completion of meeting rooms, visitor offices and common-use computer laboratories and a new three-apartment housing unit for visiting investigators. The new facilities will permit broader usage of the running seawater labs and increased access to a diversity of field sites on the Oregon Coast. OIMB has become a center for studies of early life-history biology of marine animals and plants, as well as a destination for studies of estuarine biology, marine mammal studies, and the biology of introduced species. The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve occupies laboratory space on the OIMB campus and visitors to this nationally important natural area conduct a wide variety of research projects on estuarine ecology, conservation and restoration. In addition, OIMB supports research on deep-sea biology throughout the world oceans and many visitors come to work with resident faculty on deep-sea projects and expeditions. Students attend OIMB for course work in all aspects of marine biology, including but not limited to invertebrate biology, developmental biology, animal behavior, marine ecology, estuarine biology, marine birds and mammals, molecular physiology and phycology. OIMB supports education at the K-12 level through the MARE program, which serves as the science curriculum for local elementary schools and currently involves more than 2700 students in 110 classrooms taught by University of Oregon graduate students. The institution also serves as a focal point for community education in science and conservation, with numerous groups using the institute for conferences, lectures and courses. A quarterly public lecture series is well attended by the local community. Research at OIMB is mostly in the area of basic science, but it finds immediate application in regionally important fishery issues, in the science underlying marine protected areas in both deep and shallow water, in the impacts of exotic marine species, and in determining the mechanisms by which organisms adapt to changing environmental conditions on various time scales.