ARFMP: Facilities Replacement and Renovation - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划 (ARFMP) 奖项为科罗拉多州立大学提供资金，用于将自然资源生态实验室 (NREL) 搬迁至生物化学和辐射生物学大楼，该实验室将跨学科生态科学研究和研究培训活动纳入其中。 生物化学与放射生物学大楼始建于 1947 年，最后一次翻修于 1987 年。此次搬迁是完全合理且具有成本效益的。 受资助者以成本分摊形式提供的 ARFMP 拨款 360,000 美元和 542,121 美元将用于对这些研究和研究培训设施进行现代化改造。 该项目将满足改善当前研究基础设施的需求，将 NREL 搬迁到旧生物化学和辐射生物学大楼的另一个空间，该空间正在彻底修复和翻新，从而提供一个大小和设计足够的研究和研究培训空间，并配备新的布线、供暖、通风和空调 (HVAC) 以及通风柜，足以适应这个新兴项目中进行的研究的数量、质量和多样性。 区域生态系统动态分析中心（CADRE）是生态和大气科学领域的多机构、跨学科卓越中心，刚刚获得大学批准。 该项目将增强 NREL 研究所的实力和经验，这是 CADRE 建设的基石之一。 该奖项通过为研究的开展以及在具有区域、国家和国际重要性的生态系统研究扩展项目中培训优质本科生和研究生提供更好的环境，为科学基础设施做出贡献。 该项目将帮助科罗拉多大学履行其承诺，通过培训未来的科学家对大气-生物圈相互作用的整体看法，加强气候对干旱和半干旱生态系统影响的研究。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Colorado State University for the relocation of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) which houses interdisciplinary ecological sciences research and research training activities to the Biochemistry and Radiation Biology Building. The Biochemistry and Radiation Biology building was constructed in 1947 and last renovated in 1987. The relocation is fully justified and cost- effective. The ARFMP grant of $360,000 and $542,121 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by relocating NREL to another space, which is being completely repaired and renovated, in the old Biochemistry and Radiation Biology Building and thus providing a research and research training space adequate in size and design and complete with new wiring, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), and fume hoods that are adequate to accommodate the quantity, quality, and diversity of research conducted in this burgeoning program. The Center for Analysis of the Dynamics of Regional Ecosystems (CADRE), a multi-institutional and transdisciplinary center of excellence in the ecological and atmospheric sciences, has just been approved by the University. The strength and the experience of the research institute, NREL, which will be enhanced by this project, is one of the cornerstones upon which CADRE is being built. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate and graduate students in an expanding program in ecosystems research that is of regional, national, and international importance. This project will assist in the fulfillment of the University of Colorado's commitment to enhance research on the effects of climate on arid and semi-arid ecosystems through training of future scientists with a holistic view of atmosphere-biosphere interactions.