The Sevilleta Research Field Station: Development of a Long-term Sample Processing Laboratory and Storage Facility.

新墨西哥大学的Robert R. Parmenter博士和James R. Gosz博士获得了一笔赠款，用于对位于新墨西哥州中部美国鱼类和野生动物管理局塞维利亚塔国家野生动物保护区的塞维利亚塔研究站进行改造项目。塞维利亚研究站为大量研究中部大河谷的生态学、地质学、人类学和气候学的科学家和学生提供实地支持。在1990年代，实地站的研究和训练用途急剧增加，对实地站实验室空间的需求已超过现有设施；此外，收集和储存干燥/保存的土壤、植物材料和节肢动物样本的新长期举措将需要扩大实验室和长期存储空间。有了NSF的资助和新墨西哥大学的费用分摊，新墨西哥大学的科学家们将实施一个由三部分组成的计划，其中他们将建造一个新的样品存储大楼，并将该站现有的商店/存储大楼改造成实验室空间。该计划包括：(1)将该站的车间操作转移到FWS正在建造的新的共享车间设施中，从而提高车间能力并创造新的实验室空间；(2)为现有的现场设备和长期储存现场样品建造一个新的存储大楼；(3)将旧的车间/存储大楼改造成一个样品处理实验室，配有实验室工作台、案例工作和增加的干燥箱容量，用于处理土壤和植被样品。这些改进将使实验室空间净增加1500平方英尺，并使空间站的可用存储和商店空间增加近一倍。最终的结果将是为访问研究人员和学生提供更多可用的工作空间，并更有效地利用与FWS相结合的建筑空间。经过改进的设施将使在塞维利亚研究实地站进行的中部大河谷研究活动的数量和效率得以增加，因此将有助于建立关于美国西南部这一地区生态的大型数据库。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Robert R. Parmenter and Dr. James R. Gosz at the University of New Mexico for a renovation project at the Sevilleta Research Field Station, located on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. The Sevilleta Research Field Station provides field support to a large number of scientists and students studying the ecology, geology, anthropology, and climatology of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. The research and training use of the field station has increased dramatically in the 1990's, and demand for laboratory space at the field station has outstripped available facilities; in addition, new long-term initiatives for collecting and storing dried/preserved samples of soils, plant materials, and arthropods, will require expanded laboratory and long-term storage space. With this NSF grant, and with cost share from the University of New Mexico, the UNM scientists will implement a three-part plan in which they will build a new sample storage building and renovate the station's current shop/storage building into laboratory space. The plan includes: (1) moving the station's shop operations into a new, shared shop facility being constructed by FWS, thereby enhancing shop capabilities and creating new lab space, (2) constructing a new storage building for existing field equipment and long-term storage of field samples, and (3) renovating the old shop/storage building into a sample processing laboratory, complete with laboratory benches, casework and increased drying-oven capacities for processing soil and vegetation samples. These improvements will result in a net gain of 1,500 square feet of laboratory space, and nearly double the station's available storage and shop space. The net result will be more usable work space for visiting researchers and students, and a more efficient use of combined building space with FWS. The improved facilities will allow increases in both the quantity and efficiency of research activities in the Middle Rio Grande Valley conducted at the Sevilleta Research Field Station, and therefore will contribute to a large spectrum of databases on the ecology of this region in the American Southwest.