FSML: Laboratory and Telecommunication Improvements for White Mountain Research Station

FSML：白山研究站的实验室和电信改进

• 批准号: 0084147
• 负责人: frank powell
• 金额: $ 9.97万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0084147&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Laboratory; Telecommunication; Improvements; White

This award provides support to the White Mountain Research Station (WMRS) to (1) improve laboratory resources for modern biological research and (2) establish voice and data telecommunication links between its high altitude laboratories and the rest of the world. WMRS is located on the western edge of the Great Basin with four laboratories spanning an elevation transect that exceeds 3100 meters in just 20 kilometers. The region is rich in topographical and biological diversity and is accessible to research because 97% of the land is publicly owned. With the aid of this award, the Station will develop a modern biology laboratory at the Owens Valley Laboratories (at 1,235m above sea level), the site of the Station's headquarters in Bishop, CA. The laboratory will provide the essential tools for conducting field research and stabilizing biological samples for transport to other laboratories with specialized instrumentation. In addition, the Station will establish telecommunication links between the high altitude laboratories (Barcroft at 3,801m and Crooked Creek at 3,094m) and the headquarters where there is a dedicated connection to the Internet. The new system will (a) provide a transparent extension of the Owens Valley Laboratories' local area network to Barcroft and Crooked Creek using a combination of wireless and cable data transmission, and (b) provide internet and telephone connectivity between the high altitude laboratories and the outside world.Currently, research at the Station includes efforts in wildlife and conservation biology, physiological ecology, animal energetics and ecology at high altitudes, animal behavior, evolutionary biology, plant genetics, and paleobiology. The extent and quality of these research efforts will be aided by modern biological laboratory facilities at the Station. Recent educational use of the Station has included visiting field classes, programs such as the WMRS Supercourse in Environmental Biology, the UC Conservation Biology Summer Symposium, and WMRS Undergraduate Internships. Establishing a data communication link to the high altitude laboratories will bring them "on-line" for educational programs as well as enabling research programs requiring uninterrupted monitoring and telemetry of remotely sensed data.

该奖项为白色山研究站（WMRS）提供支持，以（1）改善现代生物研究的实验室资源，（2）在其高海拔实验室与世界其他地区之间建立语音和数据电信联系。WMRS位于大盆地的西部边缘，有四个实验室跨越海拔超过3100米的断面，仅20公里。该地区拥有丰富的地形和生物多样性，并且可以进行研究，因为97%的土地是公有的。 在该合同的帮助下，空间站将在欧文斯谷实验室（海拔1,235米）建立一个现代生物实验室，欧文斯谷实验室是空间站位于加利福尼亚州毕晓普的总部所在地。 该实验室将提供进行现场研究和稳定生物样本的基本工具，以便运输到具有专门仪器的其他实验室。 此外，该站将在高海拔实验室（Barcroft海拔3，801 m，Crooked Creek海拔3，094 m）和总部之间建立电信连接，总部有专用的互联网连接。新系统将（a）通过无线和有线数据传输的组合，将欧文斯谷实验室的局域网透明地延伸到巴克罗夫特和克鲁克德克里克，（B）在高海拔实验室和外界之间提供互联网和电话连接。目前，空间站的研究工作包括野生动物和保护生物学、生理生态学、动物能量学和高海拔生态学，动物行为学，进化生物学，植物遗传学和古生物学。这些研究工作的范围和质量将得到空间站现代生物实验室设施的帮助。最近的教育使用站已包括参观实地课程，如WMRS超级课程在环境生物学，加州大学保护生物学夏季研讨会，和WMRS本科实习计划。与高空实验室建立数据通信联系将使它们"联机"进行教育方案，并使需要对遥感数据进行不间断监测和遥测的研究方案得以进行。