Upgrade of Sanitation and Communication Systems at Shoals Marine Laboratory

康奈尔大学获得了一笔赠款，以改善浅滩海洋实验室（www.sml.cornell.edu），一个季节性的实地研究站阿普尔多岛，缅因州。 废水处理将升级，以提高以大学生为重点的独特知识界的研究和培训能力。商业堆肥厕所的安装，以及2009年建造的化粪池，将：1）消除缅因州环保部规定的海洋废物排放; 2）减少淡水使用; 3）减少能源使用; 4）降低运营成本。 从降低成本中收回的资金将重新投资于支持学术项目。肖尔斯海洋实验室的使命是为本科生提供教育、研究和保护培训。阿普尔多尔岛是一个95英亩的岛屿，位于缅因州的朴茨茅斯东南6英里处，是一个非凡的地理位置，可以方便地进入潮间带，潮下带，海洋和陆地栖息地，并有机会研究可持续工程和电力，水和废水系统的整合。自1966年以来，该电台由康奈尔大学和新罕布什尔州大学运营，拥有6200名校友。每年夏天，来自世界各地的约170名本科生报名参加约20个学分的课程。实习计划针对本科研究人员，工程专业学生和保护生物学家，以成功的积极主动的方式实现多样性和包容性。该设施服务于长期进行的主要研究和调查计划，保护阿普尔多尔丰富的环境，并为AIRMAP的大气观测站提供海洋平台（http：//airmap.unh.edu/）。低环境影响技术不仅用于保护阿普尔多尔岛和周围的沃茨，而且还向所有岛屿游客展示。

Cornell Univeristy is awarded a grant to improve the Shoals Marine Laboratory (www.sml.cornell.edu), a seasonal field research station on Appledore Island, Maine. Wastewater treatment will be upgraded to increase capacity for research and training in a unique intellectual community focused on undergraduates. Installation of commercial composting toilets, together with a septic field built in 2009, will: 1) eliminate ocean discharge of wastes as mandated by Maine DEP; 2) reduce freshwater use; 3) reduce energy use; and 4) reduce operating costs. Funds recovered from reduced costs will be reinvested to support academic programs. The mission of Shoals Marine Laboratory is education, research, and conservation training for undergraduates. Appledore Island, a 95 acre island six miles southeast of Portsmouth, NH in the Gulf of Maine, is an extraordinary physical location that offers easy access to intertidal, subtidal, oceanic, and terrestrial habitats and opportunities to study sustainable engineering and integration of power, water, and wastewater systems. Operated by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire since 1966, the station has an alumni base of 6,200. Each summer, ~170 undergraduates from all over the world enroll in ~20 credit courses. The internship programs target undergraduate researchers, engineering students, and conservation biologists with a successful proactive approach to diversity and inclusiveness. The facility serves long-term ongoing major research and survey programs, conserves Appledore's rich environments, and provides an oceanic platform for AIRMAP's atmospheric observatory (http://airmap.unh.edu/). Low environmental impact technologies are used not only to protect Appledore Island and surrounding waters but also to demonstrate them to all island visitors.