FSML: Field Station Operations Workshop to be held October, 2000 at Aspinall-Wilson Center, Gunnison, Colorado

该奖项为编写生物实地站标准业务政策手册的工作提供了支助。美国大约有170个野外站是生物野外站组织（OBFS）的成员站，还有少量的外国站。OBFS成员指出，需要一本手册，描述现场站规划活动、行政结构和政策、设施提供和维护、项目集成、数据管理和沟通、筹款、财政责任和财务管理的通用程序，并且该手册很有用。作为工作的一个主要组成部分，从OBFS成员站中选出的10名参与者将参加为期三天的研讨会，以最终确定大纲并制定初步草案文件。在研讨会之前，调查工作和在OBFS年会上与更广泛的小组进行的初步讨论将导致汇编现有的操作政策，并生成拟议手册的大纲草案。最终产品将通过互联网和硬拷贝提供。新的野外台站正在以惊人的速度建立，旧的已建立的台站正在重新配置，以满足整合研究和教育计划的需求。在国家科学基金会最近通过几次研讨会和倡议提供的支持下，国家空间站业务战略办公室已将标准操作程序手册的制定确定为简化空间站行政和设施流程的重要一步。 预计这将有助于这些站为全国各地的研究人员和学生提供最好的实地研究和教育机会。

This award provides support for an effort to compile a manual of standard operational policies for biological field stations. There are approximately 170 field stations in the US that are member stations of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) as well as a smaller number of foreign stations. OBFS members have pointed to the need for and utility of a manual that describes common procedures for field station planning activities, administrative structures and policies, facility provision and maintenance, program integration, data management and communication, fundraising, fiscal responsibility and financial management. As a major component of the effort, 10 participants selected from member stations of the OBFS will meet in a three day workshop to finalize an outline and develop an initial draft document Prior to the workshop, survey efforts and preliminary discussions with a wider group at the OBFS annual meeting will result in the compilation of existing operating policies, and generation of a draft outline of the proposed manual. The final product will be available via the internet and also as hard copy.New field stations are being established at a phenomenal rate, and older, established stations are reconfiguring to meet demands for integrating research and education programs. The OBFS, with support from NSF through several workshops and initiatives in the recent past, has identified the development of a standard operating procedures manual as a significant step in streamlining administrative and facility processes at stations. This is expected to help the stations offer the best possible field research and educational opportunities to researchers and students across the nation.