ARFMP: Facilities Replacement and Renovation - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP） 来自研究设施办公室的奖项提供资金， 科罗拉多州立大学自然搬迁 资源生态学实验室（NREL）， 生态科学研究和研究培训活动， 生物化学与辐射生物学大楼 生物化学 放射生物学大楼建于1947年， 1987年重新装修。 搬迁是完全合理的，费用- 有效 非洲区域研究基金会提供了360，000美元和542，121美元的赠款， 作为费用分摊，受赠方将用于使这些系统现代化， 研究和研究培训设施。 该项目将 解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要， 将NREL迁移到另一个空间， 修复和翻新，在旧的生物化学和辐射 生物学建筑，从而提供了一个研究和研究 训练场地的大小及设计须足够，并备有新的 布线、供暖、通风和空调（HVAC）以及烟气 通风橱，足以适应数量，质量， 在这个新兴的项目中进行的研究的多样性。 的 区域生态系统动态分析中心（CADRE）， 多机构和跨学科的卓越中心， 生态和大气科学，刚刚被批准， 大学。 研究的力量和经验 研究所，NREL，这将加强本项目，是一个 是CADRE建立的基石。 该奖项有助于科学的基础设施， 为开展研究提供更好的环境， 为培养高素质的本科生和研究生， 一个不断扩大的生态系统研究项目， 国家和国际的重要性。 该项目将有助于 在履行科罗拉多大学的承诺， 加强气候对干旱和半干旱地区影响的研究 通过培训未来的科学家， 大气-生物圈相互作用的观点。

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.