Upgrading Research Facilites of Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve

位于纽约州伦斯勒维尔海尔德贝格高原的埃德蒙奈尔斯胡克保护区的生物研究站，自1938年以来一直存在。从那时起，大约155名研究人员进行了225个项目，发表了170篇论文。建立了地质、水文、气候和生物区系的历史数据库。目前的研究项目集中在森林地面生物群和分解食物网，森林演替，行为生态学和进化的生物学。研究现在已经超越了物种和设备的简单编目（例如显微镜，干燥箱，高压灭菌器，平衡）是大多数使用保护区的研究人员所需要的，以回答今天提出的深入问题。许多研究都提出了关于影响生物发生的因素的问题，必须提供关于可能影响生物分布的天气的数据。该项目提供资金，通过增加所需的研究设备和气象站，以及对主要研究人员居住区进行防寒，帮助更新研究站的设施。

The Biological Research Station of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve on the Helderberg Plateau in Rensselaerville, N.Y., has been in existence since 1938. Since then some 155 researchers have conducted over 225 projects and published 170 papers. An historical data base has been developed on the geology, hydrology, climate, and biota. Current research programs focus on the biology of forest floor biota and the decomposer food web, forest succession, and behavioral ecology and evolution. Research has now moved beyond the simple cataloguing of species and equipment (e.g. microscopes, drying oven, autoclave, balance) is needed by most researchers that use the Preserve to answer the in-depth questions being posed today. Much of the research asks questions about factors that affect the occurrence of organisms and data must be available on weather which can affect biotic distributions. This project provides funds to help upgrade the facilities of the Research Station through the addition of needed research equipment and weather stations, and the winterization of the main researcher living quarters.