FSML: Facilities Improvement at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies

该项目将协助在生态系统研究所（IES）建造一座额外的实验室大楼。新大楼将满足IES当前和未来的研究需求，为其科学家提供足够的实验室空间，并使更多的学生，博士后和访问科学家在IES进行研究。生态系统研究所（IES）目前的实验室设施不足，因为IES努力满足对基本分析和研究实验室空间日益增长的需求。在过去十年中，对IES中央分析实验室服务的需求从每年约10,000次分析激增至约60,000次。同时，几个IES科学家必须共享现有的个人实验室空间，这限制了能够在他们的实验室做研究的学生、博士后和访问科学家的数量。国际科学研究所科学家之间以及与其他机构科学家之间的科学合作是国际科学研究所的一个标志。这种合作理念延伸到PI实验室空间和分析资源的分配。IES鼓励资源共享；不鼓励不必要的设备和空间重复。为此，IES设有中央分析实验室（A.L）。人工智能是IES科研人员、学生、访客和远程合作者的资源，为他们的科学研究提供关键数据。人工智能工作人员不仅分析来自IES的样品，还分析来自世界各地的样品。随着研究项目的扩大，IES科学家也越来越需要分享他们的PI实验室。虽然这些科学家努力向访问科学家、博士后助理、研究生和本科生开放实验室空间，但实验室空间现在是IES满足新需求和探索新机会能力的限制因素。新的实验室大楼将提供精心设计的研究空间和热情、安全、功能和高效的工作场所，以最大限度地进行互动和协作。新设施将缓解不可接受的拥挤，并允许IES容纳其不断扩大的访问科学家，博士后，研究生和本科生项目。该设计允许将实验室建筑的规模扩大一倍，以满足未来的项目需求。

This project will assist in the construction of an additional laboratory building at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES). The new building will address current and future research needs of IES, providing its scientists adequate laboratory space and enabling more students, postdocs, and visiting scientists to do research at IES.The current laboratory facilities at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) are inadequate as IES strives to meet the increased demands for essentials analyses and for research laboratory space. During the last ten years, the demand for IES's central Analytical Laboratory services has ballooned from ~ 10,000 analyses per year to~ 60,000. At the same time, several IES scientists must share existing individual laboratory space, limiting the number of students, postdocs, and visiting scientists able to do research in their laboratories.Scientific collaboration, both among IES scientists and with scientists at other institutions, is a hallmark of IES. This collaborative philosophy extends into the distribution of PI laboratory space and analytical resources. IES encourages the sharing of resources; unnecessary duplication of equipment and space is discouraged. To that end, IES has a central Analytical Laboratory (A.L). The AL is a resource for IES scientific staff, students, visitors, and distant collaborators, providing data critical to their scientific research. AL staff analyzes samples not only from sites at IES, but also from sites around the world.As research programs have expanded, IES scientists have increasingly needed to share their PI laboratories as well. While these scientists strive to open their lab space to visiting scientists, postdoctoral associates, and graduate and undergraduate students, laboratory space is now the limiting factor in IES's ability to meet new demands and explore new opportunities.The new laboratory building will provide carefully designed research space and a hospitable, safe, functional, and highly efficient workplace for maximum interaction and collaboration. The new facility will ease unacceptable crowding and allow IES to accommodate its expanding visiting scientist, postdoctoral, and graduate and undergraduate student programs. The design allows for a doubling in size of the laboratory building should program needs dictate in the future.