Planning Activities: Development of the University of Mississippi Biological Field Station

多年来，密西西比大学生物野外站(UMBFS)一直是研究毒理学和人类对水生生物和生态系统影响的研究地点。这个野外站是一个地点，来自该大学和代表许多学科的其他机构的科学家，包括生物学、地质学、工程学、毒理学和药理学，可以参与跨学科的基础生态研究，以及将影响人类健康、环境和农业的应用研究。由于最近的管理变化，UMBFS现在准备扩大其生态研究的范围和教育使命。UMBFS位于密西西比州北部，牛津校区东北约18公里处。UMBFS于1985年被密西西比大学收购，占地约296公顷，包括松林和阔叶林、滩地森林、开阔地带、泉水、池塘和中栖动物，为水生生态系统的实验研究提供了独特的机会。制定了一项全面的方案教育、教育和研究计划，以最大限度地利用教科文组织教育和研究中心，使其覆盖最广泛的群体。UMBFS是一个多方面的设施，完全开发后，将为与陆地、水生和湿地生态有关的教育和研究活动提供基础设施。目前的研究项目集中在农用化学品的相互作用、毒理学调查、鱼类遗传和行为、鸟类和爬行动物种群动态以及农业用水和保护研究对环境的影响。最近，UMBFS的任务已经扩大，为水生和环境科学的研究和教育提供了更多的机会。为了推进这一使命，该项目将帮助支持规划和方案开发。

For a number of years, The University of Mississippi Biological Field Station (UMBFS) has been a research site for the study of toxicology and human impacts on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. This Field Station is a site where scientists from the University and other institutions representing many disciplines, including biology, geology, engineering, toxicology, and pharmacology, can participate in interdisciplinary basic ecological research, as well as applied research that will affect human health, the environment, and agriculture. Due to recent administrative changes, UMBFS is now poised to broaden its scope of ecological research and its educational mission. UMBFS is located in northern Mississippi approximately 18 kilometers northeast of the Oxford campus. Acquired by The University of Mississippi in 1985, UMBFS includes an area of approximately 296 hectares, and encompasses pine and mixed hardwood forest, bottomland forest, open fields, springs, ponds, and mesocosms offer unique opportunities for experimental research on aquatic ecosystems. A comprehensive programmatic educational educational and research plan developed to best utilize the UMBFS to reach the broadest constituency possible. The UMBFS is a multi- faceted facility that will, when fully developed, provide the infrastructure for educational and research activities concerned with terrestrial, aquatic, and wetlands ecology. Current research projects focus on impacts to the environment from interactions of agrichemicals, toxicological investigations, fish genetics and behavior, avian and herpetological population dynamics, and studies of agricultural water use and conservation. Recently, UMBFS's mission has been broadened to provide enhanced opportunities for both research and education in aquatic and environmental sciences. To further this mission, this project will help support planning and program development.