ARFMP: Facilities Replacement and Renovation - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖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)搬迁到生物化学和辐射生物大楼，该实验室容纳了跨学科的生态科学研究和研究培训活动。生物化学和辐射生物学大楼建于1947年，最后一次翻修是在1987年。搬迁是完全合理的，而且具有成本效益。受赠人提供的360,000美元和542,121美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊，将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，方法是将NREL搬迁到旧生物化学和辐射生物大楼内正在完全修复和翻新的另一个空间，从而提供一个大小和设计都足够并配有新的布线、供暖、通风和空调(HVAC)的研究和研究培训空间，和通风柜，足以容纳在这个新兴项目中进行的研究的数量、质量和多样性。该大学刚刚批准了区域生态系统动态分析中心(CARRE)，这是一个多机构和跨学科的生态和大气科学方面的卓越中心。NREL研究所的实力和经验将通过这个项目得到加强，是干部队伍建设的基石之一。该奖项通过为开展研究以及在具有区域、国家和国际重要性的生态系统研究扩展计划中培养高质量的本科生和研究生提供更好的环境，为科学的基础设施做出贡献。该项目将有助于履行科罗拉多大学的承诺，即通过培训未来对大气层-生物圈相互作用有全面认识的科学家，加强对气候对干旱和半干旱生态系统的影响的研究。

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.