ARFMP: Renovation of Botanical Research Facilities

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)奖为牧场圣安娜植物园提供资金，用于更换种子储存设施和温室，以及修复和翻新实验室，这些实验室开展系统和进化植物学研究和研究培训活动。这些建筑分别建于1950年、1960年和1969年之前，到目前为止都没有翻修过。受赠人提供的400,000美元和400,000美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化，这将使目前的研究和研究培训方案在范围和持续时间上得以扩大，并涵盖目前无法使用的一系列实验程序。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，包括在健康和安全方面，以及通过为研究和研究培训提供足够的加热、冷却和通风并符合现行建筑规范的空间，可以进行的研究的数量、质量和多样性。该奖项通过为进行系统和进化的植物学研究以及在少数民族学生的研究培训中发挥重要作用的项目中培养高质量的研究生提供一个改善的环境，从而为科学基础设施做出贡献，该项目在田野、温室、实验室和植物标本馆的研究技术方面表现出色，这填补了其培养训练有素、训练有素的植物系统学家的一个重要需求。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens for the replacement of a seed storage facility and greenhouses and for the repair and renovation of laboratories which house systematic and evolutionary botanical research and research training activities. These buildings were constructed, respectively, in pre-1950, 1960, and 1969 and none of them has been renovated to date. The ARFMP grant of $400,000 and $400,000 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities which will permit current research and research training programs to expand in scope and duration and to encompass an array of experimental procedures that it is currently infeasible to use. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure both in terms of health and safety and of the quantity, quality, and diversity of research that can be conducted by providing space for research and research training which is adequately heated, cooled, and ventilated and which conforms to current building codes. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of systematic and evolutionary botanical research and for the training of quality graduate students in a program that plays an important role in the research training of minority students, that excels in its integration of field, greenhouse, laboratory, and herbarium research techniques, and that fills an important need in its production of well- and broadly-trained plant systematists.