FSML: Equipment to Enhance Research and Electronic Data Management at Flathead Lake Biological Station

FSML：加强弗拉特黑德湖生物站研究和电子数据管理的设备

• 批准号: 9978285
• 负责人: Jack Stanford
• 金额: $ 7.94万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2001-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9978285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Equipment; Enhance; Research; Electronic

Established in 1899, the Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) is a Center of Excellence in The University of Montana system. The FLBS has three resident faculty, a 15-member permanent staff and an annual budget of $1 M. FLBS is located on the East Shore of Flathead Lake, some 90 miles north of Missoula, Montana, within a remarkable area of the Rocky Mountains known as the Crown of the Continent. The FLBS mission is to conduct basic research in ecology, train quality graduate students for professions in environmental disciplines and provide scientific data and information to the professional and general public in the form of electronic data bases, white papers, short courses, workshops and forums.The FLBS research program is organized around specific hypotheses concerning natural and social aspects of ecosystem function and involves 25 collaborators. There are four long -term core projects: 1) biodiversity and bioproduction along biophysical gradients; 2) floodplain ecology and river restoration; 3) large lake limnology; and, 4) environmental change assessment and ecosystem modeling. These projects have produced 100 juried papers over the last five years and substantially elevated (50%) research funding and use of our facilities by new staff, graduate students and visiting scientists. Moreover, researchers increasingly rely on high volume data bases for spatial analysis of ecosystem processes, which has caused a pressing need for specific items of equipment.This project will assist in the acquisition of: 1) a total organic carbon analyzer, 2) hardware for a new spatial analysis lab, 3) an image analysis system for optical measurements (e.g., invertebrates, zooplankton, micro-organisms and organelles); and, 4) a local area network server with a high volume back-up device. These items are central to growth of collaborative research and essential for management and distribution of the massive electronic data bases rapidly accumulating at FLBS.

平头湖生物站成立于1899年，是蒙大拿大学系统的卓越中心。FLOBS有三名常驻教员，15名永久工作人员，年度预算为100万美元。FLABS位于蒙大拿州米苏拉以北约90英里处的弗拉希德湖东岸，位于落基山脉一个引人注目的区域，被称为欧洲大陆的皇冠。其使命是开展生态学基础研究，为环境学科专业培养高质量的研究生，并以电子数据库、白皮书、短期课程、研讨会和论坛的形式向专业人士和普通公众提供科学数据和信息。该研究项目围绕生态系统功能的自然和社会方面的具体假设组织，涉及25名合作者。有四个长期核心项目：1)生物物理梯度上的生物多样性和生物生产；2)泛滥平原生态和河流恢复；3)大型湖泊湖沼学；以及4)环境变化评估和生态系统建模。这些项目在过去五年中产生了100篇陪审团论文，大大增加了(50%)研究经费和新工作人员、研究生和来访科学家对我们设施的使用。此外，研究人员越来越依赖大量的数据库进行生态系统过程的空间分析，这导致了对特定设备的迫切需求。该项目将帮助获得：1)总有机碳分析仪，2)新的空间分析实验室的硬件，3)光学测量的图像分析系统(例如，无脊椎动物、浮游动物、微生物和细胞器)，以及4)具有高容量备份设备的局域网服务器。这些项目是合作研究增长的核心，对管理和分发迅速积累的海量电子数据库至关重要。