FSML: Acquisition of Controlled Environmental Spaces for Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Skidaway海洋学研究所获得一笔赠款，以提高Skidaway海洋学研究所为海洋科学实验研究提供环境控制条件的能力。基础设施的进一步改善是对分析设施的重要补充，将使研究人员能够在使用实验室和仪器的同时进行受控的微观实验或在校园内保持敏感的生物体。基础设施的升级有两个组成部分：（1）申请资金建造两个流动海水实验室，其中的空气温度、海水温度和光线可以控制在适度的公差范围内;（2）申请资金购买和安装两个步入式环境室，为要求更高的实验工作提供严格管制的环境。新的设施将被安置在校园内的现有结构，方便实验室。拟议的设施将显着改善SkIO？更广泛的影响：Skidaway为非常多样化的学生群体提供服务，是格鲁吉亚大学系统其他大量地区研究生教育的中心。他们与K-12学生和教师以及当地社区有很好的联系。他们与附近的几个HBCU机构有很强的合作。与克拉克亚特兰大大学合作的环境创业计划将直接受益于基础设施的改善。此外，该研究所还为当地社区举办了海洋科学日活动，2007年有3 000多人参加，向他们介绍了当地的海洋研究和环境问题。该研究所设有一个演讲者办公室，每年为当地社区举办50多场讲座。该研究所有一个双向远程会议系统，可将SkIO的讲座传送到格鲁吉亚周围的约300个地点，这增加了对格鲁吉亚内陆地区的接触，增加了对实验室研究和培训机会的兴趣。

The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is awarded a grant to improve the capacity of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) to provide environmentally-controlled conditions for experimental studies in the marine sciences. The additional infrastructure improvements are an essential complement to the analytical facilities, and will allow researchers to perform controlled microcosm experiments or maintain sensitive organisms on campus while using the laboratories and instrumentation. The upgrades to infrastructure have two components: (1) funds are requested for the construction of two flowing seawater laboratories in which air temperature, seawater temperature, and light can be controlled to modest tolerances, and (2) funds are requested for the purchase and installation of two walk-in environmental rooms that will provide tightly regulated environments for more demanding experimental work. The new facilities will be housed within an existing structure on campus that is convenient to laboratories. The proposed facilities will significantly improve SkIO?s capacity to do experimental biological research and ecological research on campus.Broader Impacts: Skidaway serves a very diverse population of students and is a hub for graduate education at a large number of other parts of the Univ. of Georgia system. They have good outreach to K-12 students and teachers, as well as to the local community. They have strong collaborations with several nearby HBCU institutions. The Environmental Entrepreneurship Program in collaboration with Clark Atlanta University will directly benefit from the infrastructure improvements. In addition, the Institute hosts a Marine Science Day for the local community which was attended by over 3000 people in 2007 and informs them of local marine research and environmental issues. The Institute maintains a speaker's bureau which provides more than 50 lectures/year to local communities. The Institute has a bi-directional teleconferencing system that permits lectures at SkIO to be transmitted to some 300 locations around Georgia and this increase exposure to the land-locked areas of Georgia has increased interest in research and training opportunities at the lab.