FSML-Research and Facilities Planning for the St. Croix Watershed Research Station

FSML-圣克罗伊流域研究站研究和设施规划

• 批准号: 9812367
• 负责人: Ronald Lawrenz
• 金额: $ 2.1万
• 依托单位: Science Museum of Minnesota
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9812367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Research; Facilities; Planning; St.

The St. Croix Watershed Research Station (SCWRS) is the biological field station of the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM). The facilities of the SCWRS are located along the St. Croix River and within the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway at the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin, 48 km northeast of St. Paul, MN. The SCWRS provides opportunities to conduct research on a large midcontinental river system and associated habitats. Through its parent facility, the SCWRS provides a powerful public education outlet for field science. The SCWRS was established in 1989 and has greatly expanded its physical facilities, staffing, and research activity in the intervening nine years. An initial strategic planning effort was conducted in 1992. The resulting plan guided the development of a modern 6200 ft Research Center and a year-round housing facility for visiting scientists, both completed in 1995. The SCWRS has expanded its permanent staffing complement from three to nine positions, including five research positions. The scientific staff were specifically recruited to create a core research program focusing on landscape-level problems in land-water interaction. The current research staff have expertise and training in aquatic biology, limnology, hydrology, soil science, chemistry, and GIS management. This base of scientific expertise complements a visiting researcher program that focuses on ecology and biology. The SCWRS has entered a phase of accelerated program growth, which will increase its ability to make significant contributions to national and international field research. The original facilities and research plan is over five years old, and a new vision is needed to carry the SCWRS into the future. Planned program initiatives coupled with facilities changes and equipment procurement will be needed if SCWRS is to meet its full potential as a regional and national field faci lity. The SCWRS has now reached a critical point of accelerated development that will set the future of long-term use and development at the site. This project will support a planning effort that will set a new SCWRS research and facilities trajectory for the future. Funds would be used to support the development and implementation of a facilitated planning workshop. The final product will be a new research and facilities plan that will guide facilities development, sting, and research of the SCWRS for the next ten years and provide a long-range vision for research and program development.

圣克鲁瓦流域研究站（SCWRS）是明尼苏达科学博物馆（SMM）的生物野外站。SCWRS的设施位于沿着圣克鲁瓦河和明尼苏达州和威斯康星州之间边界的圣克鲁瓦国家风景区河道内，距离明尼苏达州圣保罗东北48公里。 SCWRS提供了对大型中大陆河流系统和相关栖息地进行研究的机会。通过它的母公司，SCWRS提供了一个强大的公共教育出口领域的科学。 该SCWRS成立于1989年，并大大扩大了其物理设施，人员配备和研究活动在干预九年。 1992年进行了初步的战略规划工作。 由此产生的计划指导了一个现代化的6200英尺的研究中心和访问科学家的全年住房设施的发展，两者都在1995年完成。妇女地位科学委员会已将其常设工作人员编制从3个职位扩大到9个职位，包括5个研究职位。 科学家们被专门招募来创造 一个核心研究计划，重点是土地-水相互作用的生态层面的问题。目前的研究人员有 在水生生物学、湖沼学、水文学、土壤科学、化学和地理信息系统管理方面的专业知识和培训。这个科学专业知识的基础补充了一个专注于生态学和生物学的访问研究员计划。 SCWRS已经进入了加速计划增长的阶段，这将提高其为国家和国际领域研究做出重大贡献的能力。最初的设施和研究计划已经有五年多的历史了，需要一个新的愿景来将SCWRS带入未来。如果SCWRS要充分发挥其作为区域和国家现场设施的潜力，则需要计划的项目倡议以及设施变更和设备采购。SCWRS现在已经达到了加速发展的关键点，这将决定该网站长期使用和发展的未来。 该项目将支持一项规划工作，为未来设定一个新的SCWRS研究和设施轨迹。资金将用于支持筹备和举办一个便利规划讲习班。最终产品将是一个新的研究和设施计划，将指导未来十年SCWRS的设施开发，测试和研究，并为研究和计划开发提供长远的愿景。