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

这项奖励为编制生物实地站标准业务政策手册的工作提供支助。美国大约有170个野外站，它们是生物野外站组织（OBFS）的成员站，以及少数外国站。业务支助处成员指出，需要和使用一份手册，说明外地站规划活动、行政结构和政策、设施提供和维修、方案一体化、数据管理和通讯、筹资、财政责任和财务管理的共同程序。作为这项工作的主要组成部分，从OBFS成员站选出的10名参与者将在为期三天的研讨会上举行会议，以最终确定大纲并制定初步文件草案。在研讨会之前，在OBFS年会上进行的调查工作和与更广泛的小组的初步讨论将编纂现有的操作政策，并生成拟议手册的大纲草案。最终的产品将通过互联网和硬拷贝提供。新的野外观测站正在以惊人的速度建立，而旧的、已建立的观测站正在重新配置，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举办的几次讲习班和倡议的支持下，OBFS已确定制定标准操作程序手册，这是精简站点行政和设施流程的重要步骤。这有望帮助台站为全国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.