FSML: Improvements to the Capacity of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory

凯瓦洛海洋实验室(KML)是夏威夷州仅有的三个海洋研究机构之一，它利用现代分子技术以及其他实验室和实地研究来了解海洋生物多样性、复原力和生态系统反应的基本原理。教师、博士后助理、本科生和研究生以及参观者都参与了对学术、环境、生物医学和保护科学具有基本重要性和应用价值的研究。凯瓦洛海洋实验室的研究使用海洋生物来研究从分子到生态系统的各种生物现象和过程。所有KML研究项目的共同主线是分子技术的重要使用，这些技术需要特定的仪器来检测、量化和操作来自高质量流经海水系统的生物体的少量稀有和珍贵的生物材料。新的和升级的设备和仪器将通过获得新的多用户仪器和升级的流动海水系统，帮助KML用户跟上不断发展的分子技术和相关的研究机会，并将加强和扩大KML的研究和培训能力。这些仪器将允许学生和受训人员使用尖端技术来解决独特的夏威夷海洋生物多样性的细胞、发育、进化和环境生物学方面的基本问题。这些改进还将支持对夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛国学生的培训计划，这些学生在STEM学科中的代表性严重不足。海洋实验室提供了前所未有的机会，获得大多数研究型大学无法获得的各种生物和相关的研究机会。在火奴鲁鲁市中心附近唯一毗邻活珊瑚礁的凯瓦洛海洋实验室，研究人员和他们的受训人员使用现代细胞和分子方法，使用包括软体动物、环节动物、扁虫、珊瑚礁和海洋微生物在内的各种海洋生物来研究各种基本的生物现象。新的仪器和海水设施不仅将促进KML常驻研究人员(及其不同的本科生、研究生和博士后研究员)的研究，而且将支持积极的访问科学家计划。改进将用于支持研究和培训工作，使不同的学生群体能够更好地了解关键的生物过程，这将有助于保护独特的当地和区域海洋生态系统。有关该设施以及相关研究和培训计划的更多详细信息，请访问KML网站：http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/index.php

The Kewalo Marine Laboratory (KML) is one of only three marine research facilities in the state of Hawaii, which uses modern molecular techniques along with other laboratory and field-based research to understand basic principles of marine biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem responses. Faculty, postdoctoral associates, undergraduate and graduate students and visitors are all involved in research of fundamental importance and applied value for academic, environmental, biomedical and conservation science. Research at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory uses marine organisms to study a variety of biological phenomena and processes that range from molecules to ecosystems. The common thread in all KML research programs is the important use of molecular techniques that require specific instrumentation to detect, quantify, and manipulate small quantities of rare and precious biomaterials from organisms maintained in a high quality flow through sea water system. New and upgraded equipment and instrumentation will help KML users keep pace with ever-evolving molecular techniques and associated research opportunities through access to new multi-user instruments and an upgraded flowing seawater system and will enhance and expand research and training capabilities at KML. The instruments will allow students and trainees to employ cutting edge technologies to address fundamental problems in cellular, developmental, evolutionary, and environmental biology of the unique Hawaiian marine biodiversity. The improvements will also support training programs for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island students who are highly under-represented in the STEM disciplines.Marine laboratories provide unprecedented access to a diversity of organisms and associated research opportunities unavailable at most research universities. At the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, uniquely situated adjacent to living coral reefs near downtown Honolulu, researchers and their trainees use modern cellular and molecular approaches to investigate a wide variety of basic biological phenomena using a full range of marine organisms, including molluscs, annelids, flatworms, reef corals and marine microbes. The new instruments and seawater facilities will not only facilitate research by the resident researchers of KML (and their diverse undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows), but will bolster the active Visiting Scientist program. Improvements will be used to support both research and training efforts, allowing a diverse group of students to gain a better understanding of key biological processes that will help in the preservation of unique local and regional marine ecosystems. Additional details on the facility, and associated research and training programs can be found on the KML website: http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/index.php