Facility for the Study of Fine Scale Variability in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Oceanographic Features at the Shannon Point Marine Center

西华盛顿大学的香农角海洋中心获得一笔赠款，用于购买一套仪器，包括：1）一个水取样器/剖面仪，适用于连续分析精细尺度的物理和化学海洋学变量，包括深度、温度、盐度、次表层光合有效辐射、溶解氧和体内叶绿素a荧光，和2）能够对与现场测量的物理和化学现象相关的微生物群落进行有效分析的流式细胞仪。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响是强大的。许多本科生正在出版，许多人已经进入研究生院，代表性不足的群体也参与其中。SPML和WWU的教师在本科研究项目的发展方面有着良好的记录，他们长期致力于实验室的本科教学，以及通过REU和少数服务本科研究项目进行本科研究。该实验室已经拥有来自附近沃茨的9个站点的强大数据库，以及一个非常完善和有用的网站，供访问研究人员和合作者使用。CTD数据包是海洋学研究的标准，熟悉这些工具和数据收集模式对那些在该领域寻求就业或继续教育的人很有价值。同样，流式细胞术是一项基础技术，不仅适用于海洋微生物生态学，而且适用于免疫学和其他医学研究和诊断领域。

The Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington university is awarded a grant to purchase an instrument package consisting of 1) a water sampler/profiler suitable for continuous profiling of fine scale physical and chemical oceanographic variables, including depth, temperature, salinity, subsurface photosynthetically active radiation, dissolved oxygen, and in vivo chlorophyll a fluorescence, and 2) a flow cytometer capable of powerful analysis of microbial communities associated with the physical and chemical phenomena measured in the field. Broader Impacts: The broader impacts are strong. Many undergrads are publishing, many have gone on to graduate school, and under-represented groups are engaged. The faculty at SPML and WWU have an excellent track record in the development of undergraduate research programs through a long term commitment to undergraduate teaching at the laboratory as well as undergraduate research through an REU and a minority serving undergraduate research program. The laboratory already has a strong data base from 9 stations in near by waters and a very well developed and useful website for visiting researchers and collaborators. Profiling CTD packages are the standard in oceanographic research and familiarity with these instruments and modes of data collection will be valuable for those seeking employment or further education in the field. Similarly, flow cytometry is a fundamental technology, not just for marine microbial ecology, but for immunology and other medical research and diagnostic fields.