Construction of Multi-User Research Laboratory

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）是一个独立的、非营利性的野外工作站，不隶属于任何机构，为希望在野外环境中研究高海拔生物学的研究人员提供设施。研究人员来到RMBL已有60年的历史，越来越多的长期用户迫切需要目前无法获得的高质量实验室空间，以加强他们的研究活动。该方案将支持建造一座坚固的、两层的、适合场地的被动式太阳能实验室建筑，该建筑将包含六个独立的实验室，一个用于共享设备的大型多用户房间和卫生设施。该建筑是为落基山脉海拔2900米的恶劣环境而设计的，并将全年使用。RMBL管理层和会员承诺提供等额的研究人员住房建设和翻新，研究设备购买和其他资本改善，作为新实验室大楼成本的配套资金。

The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) is an independent, non-profit field station with no institutional affiliation, which provides facilities to researchers who wish to study high-altitude biology in a field setting. Researchers have come to RMBL for six decades, and more and more long-term users are expressing an urgent need for currently unavailable high- quality laboratory space in order to enhance their research activities. This proposal will support construction of a sturdy, two- story, site-appropriate passive-solar laboratory building that will contain six individual lab rooms, a large multi-user room for shared equipment, and sanitary facilities. The building is designed for the harsh environment encountered at 2900 m elevation in the Rocky Mountains, and will be available for year- round use. The RMBL administration and members pledge an equivalent value of researcher housing construction and renovation, research equipment purchases, and other capital improvements as matching funds toward the cost of this new laboratory building.