FSML Planning for the Future of the Darling Marine Center

缅因大学获得了一笔赠款，用于为位于缅因州中部海岸的达令海洋中心（该中心）进行战略规划。该中心正处于过渡时期，最近在常驻教员组成、资金来源和领导方面发生了重大变化。目标是为中心制定一个十年愿景，并为头五年制定具体的执行计划。它将包括广泛的现有和潜在的未来用户群体，其目标是加强中心的研究、培训和教育用途。规划活动将包括当地大学校园教师之间的内部讨论，由访问委员会进行深入的审查和分析，当地利益相关者研讨会，以及访问其他海洋实验室。将对该中心的数据管理政策、费用结构和营销策略进行评估。将根据在战略规划活动期间收集的资料编写一份载有可采取行动和优先事项的报告。该中心使访问和常驻研究人员能够通过其能力强大的船只R/V Ira c进入河口和缅因湾开放水域的各种微环境。访问和常驻研究人员在实验室进行的研究涉及广泛的主题，包括沿海海洋生态系统的生态研究，关键物种的生理学和生殖和发育生物学，以及包括人类在内的物种之间的相互作用。浮游生物研究包括浮游生物的时间序列测量及其对气候变化的反应。拟议的规划活动及其对研究项目和基础设施的审查将提高中心的研究能力。该中心研究的许多物种具有很高的经济价值（例如龙虾和水产养殖双壳类），与缅因州的经济直接相关。人类对缅因湾生态的影响对缅因沿海社区的社会结构有直接的反馈。该中心目前通过各种正式和非正式的课程，教育和培训从K到研究生院的学生。COSEE-OS计划提供的专业培训机会和网络研讨会远远超出了缅因州。拟议规划过程的一个目标是扩大我们的教育和培训活动，并与为新英格兰代表性不足的少数民族服务的机构建立新的联系。该中心是下一代学生的理想课堂，也是决定我们如何在未来可持续地最好地利用地球资源的缩影。欲了解更多有关中心的信息，请访问网站http://www.dmc.maine.edu。

The University of Maine is awarded a grant to carry out strategic planning for the Darling Marine Center (the Center), located in mid-coast Maine. The Center is in transition with recent major shifts in the composition of resident faculty members, funding sources and leadership. The goal is to develop a decadal vision for the Center with concrete implementation plans for the first five years. It will be inclusive of the broad groups of present and potential future users, with the goal of enhanced research, training and educational uses of the Center. Planning activities will include internal discussion among faculty members resident at local university campuses, an in-depth review and analysis by a Committee of Visitors, local stakeholder workshops, and visits to other marine labs. Data management policies, fee structure, and marketing strategies for the Center will be evaluated. A report, with actionable and prioritized items, will be produced based on information gathered during the strategic planning activities. The Center enables access for visiting and resident researchers to a wide diversity of microenvironments along the estuary and to the open Gulf of Maine waters through its capable vessel, the R/V Ira C. The research carried out at the laboratory by visiting and resident researchers addresses a broad range of topics, spanning ecological studies of coastal marine ecosystems, the physiology and reproductive and developmental biology of key species, and the interactions among species including humans. Planktonic studies include time-series measurements of plankton and their responses to a changing climate. The proposed planning activity, with its review of research programs and infrastructure, will enhance the Center's capacity for research. Many of the species studied at the Center are of high economic value (e.g., lobster and aquacultured bivalves) and of direct relevance to Maine's economy. The impact of humans on the ecology of the Gulf of Maine has a direct feedback to the social fabric of Maine's coastal communities. The Center currently educates and trains students from K through graduate school through its various formal and informal programs. The COSEE-OS program provides professional training opportunities and webinars that reach far beyond the State of Maine. A goal of the proposed planning process is to expand our educational and training activities and establish new links to institutions serving underrepresented minorities in New England. The Center is an ideal classroom for the next generation of students and a microcosm for determining how we can best use Earth's resources sustainably in the future. For more information about the Center, please visit the website at http://www.dmc.maine.edu.