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

该奖项为世界首屈一指的热带潮湿森林研究站的运营和维护提供部分支持，该研究站位于哥斯达黎加占地 125,000 英亩的国家公园的北端。 拉塞尔瓦生物站是一个占地 4,000 英亩的保护区和实验森林，由热带研究组织拥有和运营，该组织是一个由 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联盟。 该站配备了齐全的科学仪器、计算机等，以方便从参与全球变暖的土壤气体通量到森林组成的生态和进化动力学等全方位的生态研究。 食宿可容纳 72 人。 拉塞尔瓦吸引了一批国际科学家客户，他们使用实验室、森林保护区和实验用地，并分享他们在基础研究方面的专业知识——其中一些研究与遏制热带森林砍伐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.