This project will support improvements to the Coral Reef Research Foundation Laboratory in Koror, Polau, Western Caroline Islands. The CRRF Laboratory is a new facility which is rapidly developing a group of outside researchers and education programs that use the facility. Palau is an area of high marine diversity with a wide variety of marine habitats, including tropical marine lakes which are extremely rare. The CRRF Laboratory is heavily committed to assisting researchers and education programs, while maintaining an in-house program of species-level marine diversity and other marine biological research. The project will support the acquisition of laboratory equipment (microscopy, general laboratory instrumentation, computer equipment) and materials for construction of a small wet laboratory for use by education programs and outside researchers.
