消费电子产品展 at the Waterfront Campus

生活建筑挑战

Semans-Griswold Environmental 大厅 was built to achieve 生活建筑挑战 认证. 生活建筑挑战 is a sustainable development model that is a step above LEED certification. Not only does this certification require that we use sustainable building materials 和 thoughtful decision making around the natural environment, but it also requires that the building produces 至少  105% of the energy that it will use. This will be achieved through a str和 of solar panels that will be stationed on the roof of the building, along with geothermal wells that are installed underneath the building. 生活建筑挑战 also requires a focus on the health 和 happiness of the building tenants, along with a focus on art 和 accessibility to the community.

三个创新的实验室空间

• Wet Lab 和 River Flow-Through System – The wet lab hosts a river flow-through system, which pumps water from the Chester River directly into 和 out of the lab. 这允许 our students to study different aspects of the Chester River in a controlled environment using water directly from the river.   
  
  
• Watershed Innovation Lab – The Watershed Innovation lab serves as the home to 消费电子产品展’s Chester River Watershed Observatory. Here, students have the opportunity to work on buoys that monitor the river’s water quality, side-scan sonar, build AquaBotz 和 更多的.   
  
  
• Environmental 和 Biology Lab – The third lab serves as a laboratory learning space for some Environmental 和 Biology courses at 九州娱乐官网. 

滨水教室空间

The classroom at SGEH is used for multiple Environmental 和 Biology courses, along with serving as the on-campus classroom for 消费电子产品展’s Chesapeake Semester. 

环境中心 & 社会的总部

SGEH是新家园 环境中心 & 社会 at 九州娱乐官网, one of three Signature Centers that focus on providing undergraduate students with graduate-level experiences outside of the classroom. 

羽毛友好型窗户

Creating habitat includes ensuring that nearby buildings are safe for the birds that 消费电子产品展希望能有所帮助. At Semans-Griswold Environmental 大厅, nearby native meadows 和 hedgerows provide excellent habitat for birds 和 pollinators. 我们正在这个过程中 of installing Feather Friendly window treatments to help prevent bird strikes to make this living building a sanctuary for all. Feather Friendly has developed a window deterrent system that both helps birds to identify the window as an obstacle 和 preserve 视图.

Callinectes

它长46英尺， Callinectes is fully equipped with an array of the latest electronics 和 environmental instrumentation including trawls, sonar, acoustic seabed classification systems, magnetometers 和 positioning systems used in mapping 和 evaluating geological features of the Bay 还有它的潮水. On the Chester River, sampling gear is used to collect water 和 sediment samples that are analyzed to measure nutrients, dissolved oxygen, algal abundance, toxic contaminants 和 other factors that tell us about the ecological health of the 地区.

月鲹

2013年4月，消费电子产品展被收购 月鲹 from NOAA with the intent to provide additional research opportunities for Washington 大学生. 月鲹, created for the Coast Guard, will be primarily used for mapping the river with sonar, but will also be available for special trips for water sampling 和 testing.

月鲹 is considerably smaller than Callinectes, which works to her advantage. She will be able to access shallower areas of the Chester 和 coastal areas that are inaccessible to Callinectes.