Administration, Maintenance and Development of the La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.

该奖项为位于哥斯达黎加12.5万英亩国家公园北端的世界首屈一指的热带湿润森林研究站的运营和维护提供部分支持。La Selva生物站是一个占地4000英亩的保护区和实验森林，由热带研究组织、一个由41所美国大学和研究机构、波多黎各大学和四所哥斯达黎加高等教育机构组成的财团拥有和运营。空间站配备了完整的科学仪器、计算机等，以促进从与全球变暖有关的土壤气体通量到森林组成的生态和进化动态的全方位生态研究。提供可容纳72人的食宿住宿。La Selva吸引了使用实验室、森林保护区和实验地的科学家的国际客户，他们分享了他们在基础研究方面的专业知识--其中一些与遏制热带砍伐森林的浪潮及其全球影响有关。

This award provides partial support for operation and maintenance of the world's premier tropical moist-forest research station, located on the northern tip of a 125,000 acre national park in Costa Rica. The La Selva Biological Station is a 4,000 acre reserve and experimental forest that is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies, a consortium of 41 U.S. universities and research institutions, the University of Puerto Rico and four Costa Rican institutions on higher learning. The station is fully equipped with scientific instrumentation, computers, etc. to facilitate a full range of ecological research from soil gaseous fluxes involved in global warming to the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of forest composition. Room and board accommodations are available for 72 persons. La Selva attracts an international clientele of scientists who use the laboratories, forest reserve and experimental lands, and who share their expertise in basic research--some of which has relevance to stemming the tide of tropical deforestation and its global repercussions.