ARFMP: Facilities Replacement and Renovation - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，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学大楼，该实验室负责跨学科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。搬迁是完全合理和成本效益。受资方提供的36万美元和542,121美元的ARFMP赠款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求，将NREL搬迁到旧的生物化学和辐射生物学大楼的另一个空间，该空间正在进行彻底的修复和翻新，从而提供一个大小和设计足够的研究和研究培训空间，并配有新的布线、供暖、通风和空调（HVAC）。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）是一个多机构和跨学科的生态和大气科学卓越中心，刚刚被大学批准。NREL的实力和经验将通过该项目得到加强，这是CADRE建设的基石之一。该奖项通过为开展具有区域、国家和国际重要性的生态系统研究项目提供改善的环境和培养高质量的本科生和研究生，从而为科学基础设施做出了贡献。该项目将通过培训对大气-生物圈相互作用有全面认识的未来科学家，帮助科罗拉多大学实现加强气候对干旱和半干旱生态系统影响研究的承诺。

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.