Acquisition of a Research and Teaching Salt Water Flume at Priest Landing, GA

佐治亚理工研究公司-佐治亚理工学院获得了一笔赠款，用于在位于瓦索湾（Skidaway岛）附近的Priest Landing海洋实验室建造一个水槽。Priest Landing的拟议水槽取代了位于SkIO校园的过时水槽，填补了该地区设施基础设施的关键空白。水槽的设计是为了模拟实验室附近沿海环境中的潮汐通道，创造流动条件。尺寸将足以产生真实的流动和边界层条件，并为动物实验提供一个大的工作部分，并将包括有机玻璃通道壁，沉积物部分的假底部和仪器车厢的轨道等特征。该设施的能力将支持各种流体物理、沉积物运输和行为或生态研究，包括由化学感觉跟踪介导的生态相互作用、防御性化学信号的生态学、河流/河床孔隙水污染物交换、固结、粘性沉积物被非粘性沉积物磨损的运输、脉动流中的连贯结构、沉积物侵蚀和桥梁冲刷，以及潮汐流中的湍流模型。多功能水槽设施的潜在用户包括来自佐治亚理工学院、佐治亚理工学院萨凡纳分校、萨凡纳州立大学、阿姆斯特朗大西洋州立大学、哥伦布州立大学、佐治亚南方大学（通过佐治亚理工学院区域工程计划（GTREP）隶属于理工学院）、斯基德威海洋学研究所（SkIO）和其他机构的师生。该水槽还将通过实验室和顶点课程、个人研究项目以及NSF REU-Site水生化学生态学和野外生态学项目，用于研究生和本科生的培训。最后，该设施将通过与萨凡纳科学系列研讨会的联系，用于K-12科学教育。有关Priest Landing海洋实验室的更多信息，请访问http://www.biology.gatech.edu/Priest_Landing_Marine.html。

The Georgia Tech Research Corporation - Georgia Institute of Technology is awarded a grant to to build a flume at the Priest Landing Marine Laboratory, located adjacent to Wassaw Sound (Skidaway Island). The proposed flume at Priest Landing replaces an outdated flume located on the SkIO campus and fills a critical gap in facilities infrastructure in the region. The flume is designed to create flow conditions that mimic the tidal channels in the surrounding coastal environment near the lab. The size will be sufficient to generate realistic flow and boundary layer conditions and provide a large working section for animal experiments and will incorporate features such as Plexiglas channel walls, false bottom for a sediment section , and rails for an instrument carriage. The capabilities of the facility will support a variety of fluid physical, sediment transport, and behavioral or ecological studies including ecological interactions mediated by chemosensation tracking, the ecology of defensive chemical signaling, river/riverbed porewater contaminant exchange, transport of consolidated, cohesive sediments abraded by non-cohesive sediments, coherent structures in pulsatile flows, sediment erosion and bridge scour, and turbulence modeling in tidal flows. Potential users of the versatile flume facility include faculty and students from Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech Savannah, Savannah State University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Columbus State University, Georgia Southern University (affiliated with Tech through the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program, GTREP), the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO), and other institutions. The flume also will be used for graduate and undergraduate student training through laboratory and capstone courses, individual research projects, and NSF REU-Site programs on Aquatic Chemical Ecology and field ecology. Finally, use the facility will be used for K-12 science education via affiliation with the Savannah Science Seminar Series. Additional information about Priest Landing Marine Laboratory may be found at http://www.biology.gatech.edu/Priest_Landing_Marine.html.