Laboratory renovation at the Ocean Research College Academy at Everett Community College

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将埃弗雷特社区学院的临时研究实验室空间改造成一个主流研究实验室，配备充足的电力、水和天然气、通风橱、海水储存罐以及开展海洋科学研究所需的其他要求。 翻新后的实验室将支持埃弗雷特社区学院海洋研究学院学院（ORCA）的学生和教师正在进行的环境监测实地研究的岸基分析和建模方面。 ORCA为高中生开创了一个独特而有效的研究培训计划，其中许多学生来自弱势背景或来自科学领域代表性不足的群体。 ORCA的学生学习第一手的，虽然基于调查，动手，研究经验，促进科学的质疑性质，以及如何使用数据来支持想法和假设。 ORCA科学专注于环境研究和普吉湾东北部的监测，普吉湾是学院所在地，当地社区对保护和了解其现在和未来的环境功能和活力有很高的兴趣。 ORCA研究包括每月在当地包租船只上进行研究探险，让学生收集数据并分析海洋化学，海底成分，浮游生物多样性以及海洋鸟类和海洋哺乳动物丰度和分布的趋势。 新设施将使研究二氧化碳和养分循环的声音及其对水化学和生物体发育的影响得以实现。 新装修的设施的更广泛的影响包括加强科学基础设施，充分整合教育和研究的学生从服务不足的人口从事开展环境研究的一个重要组成部分的华盛顿州海岸线。 其他影响包括改善为ORCA教师服务的设施，其中大多数是女性，其中两人是美洲原住民血统，所有人都是学生的积极榜样。该项目还能够收集和发布解决普吉湾地区环境问题的数据，包括学生驱动的公众宣传，展示研究成果，并通过科学调查展示发现的兴奋。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project transforms makeshift research laboratory space at Everett Community College into a mainstream research laboratory with adequate electrical, water, and gas, a fume hood, seawater holding tank, and other requirements necessary for carrying out marine science research. The renovated lab will support the shore-based analytical and modeling aspects of on-going field studies of the environmental monitoring by students and faculty of the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) at Everett Community College. ORCA has pioneered a unique and effective research training program for high-school students, many of them from disadvantaged backgrounds or who are from groups under-represented in the sciences. ORCA students learn first-hand, though inquiry-based, hands-on, research experiences that foster the questioning nature of science and how to use data to support ideas and hypotheses. ORCA science focuses on environmental research and the monitoring of the northeastern arm of Puget Sound, a location local to the college and for which the local community has a high level of interest in preserving and understanding its present and future environmental functioning and vitality. ORCA research involves monthly research expeditions aboard a local charter vessel that allows students to collect data and analyze trends in ocean chemistry, seabed composition, plankton diversity, and marine bird and marine mammal abundance and distribution. The new facility will allow studies of CO2 and nutrient cycling in the Sound and their impact on its water chemistry and organism development to be realized. Broader impacts of the newly renovated facility include enhancing infrastructure for science that fully integrates education and research for students from under-served populations engaged in carrying out environmental research of an important part of the Washington State coastline. Additional impacts include improving facilities that serve ORCA faculty, most of whom are women, two of whom are of Native American descent, and all of whom serve as positive role models for students. The project also enables collection and publication of data that addresses environmental concerns in the Puget Sound area, includes student-driven public outreach that showcases research results and demonstrates the excitement of discovery through scientific investigation.