Creation of a Document Archive, Cold Storage Facility, and Laboratory Space at Harvard Forest

哈佛森林是新英格兰中部一个占地1300公顷的野外观测站，是国家科学基金会资助的长期生态研究（LTER）项目和能源部资助的国家全球环境变化研究所（NIGEC）项目（东北中心）的研究重点。 除了大约35名常驻科学和技术人员外，来自十几个机构的50多名研究人员在哈佛森林进行了大部分的实地研究。 哈佛森林教育活动包括（1）每年通过哈佛大学森林生物学布拉德奖学金计划接待2-4名访问教师（2）每年赞助研究生论文研究和大约28名学生作为教师和科学工作人员的夏季研究助理，（3）举办超过15个大学课程进行实地研究，（4）召集许多州，国家和国际会议的科学和政策，（5）教育超过5000游客每年在费舍尔林业博物馆。 在哈佛森林的研究是围绕森林生态系统动态的中心主题，受自然和人为干扰过程的影响。 近年来，该设施对实验室设施、数据和样品储存空间以及地球化学、大气-生物圈相互作用、古生态学、种群生态学和微生物生态学等领域的办公室提出了更高的要求。 对这些领域的重大承诺已经证明了全职土壤生态学家，数据管理员/植物学家和古生态学家的任命，并增加了来自几个机构的科学家的过程水平的研究。 随着研究生研究和我们的暑期本科生研究计划的扩大，对实验室设施的教育相关需求有所增加。 随着生态系统生态学、生态生理学、古生态学研究的不断深入，人们对土壤、植物组织和湖泊沉积物的冷藏需求日益增加。 为了容纳这些增加的研究和教育活动，将对现有的八个车库进行翻修，以提供文件档案、湖泊沉积物和土壤样品的冷藏库、土壤/植物组织档案设施和另外两个供访问科学家和夏季研究助理使用的实验室。 翻修完成后，将提供额外800平方英尺的档案/储存空间和额外800平方英尺的实验室空间。

The Harvard Forest is a 1300-hectare field station in central New England that serves as the research focus of a National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project and the Department of Energy funded National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) program (Northeast Center). In addition to the resident science and technical staff of approximately 35, over 50 researchers from over a dozen institutions conduct a major portion of their field studies at the Harvard Forest. Harvard Forest educational activities include (1) annually serving as a host to 2-4 visiting faculty through the Bullard Fellowship Program in Forest Biology at Harvard University (2) sponsoring graduate student thesis research and approximately 28 students annually as summer research assistants to faculty and science staff, (3) hosting more than 15 university courses for field studies, (4) convening numerous state, national, and international conferences in science and policy, and (5) educating more than 5000 visitors annually in the Fisher Museum of Forestry. Research at the Harvard Forest is integrated around the central theme of forest ecosystem dynamics as affected by natural and human disturbance processes. In recent years the facility has experienced much higher demands for laboratory facilities, data and sample storage space, and offices in the areas of biogeochemistry, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, paleoecology, population ecology, and microbial ecology. A major commitment to these areas has been demonstrated by the appointments of a full-time Soil Ecologists, Data Manager/Ecologist, and Paleoecologist, and by increased process-level studies by scientists from several institutions. Education-related demands on laboratory facilities have risen as both graduate student research and our summer undergraduate research program have expanded. Increased efforts in ecosystem ecology, ecophysiology, paleoecology have resulted in increased need for cold storage of soils, plan t tissues, and lake sediment. In order to accommodate these increased research and educational activities an existing eight-bay garage complex will be renovated to provide a document archives, cold storage of lake sediment and soil samples, a soil/plant tissue archive facility, and two additional laboratories for visiting scientists and summer research assistants. When completed the renovation will provide and additional 800 ft2 of archive/storage space and an additional 800 ft2 of laboratory space.