FSML Planning Grant for a Major New Land Addition at Archbold Biological Station

该奖项支持阿赫博尔德生物站的战略规划，该生物站最近通过大量私人捐赠扩大了其土地持有量。阿赫博尔德成立于1941年，是一个致力于长期生态研究的非营利研究机构。工作人员，访问调查员和学生进行研究，重点是佛罗里达中部的威尔士湖岭的环境。研究领域的优势是人口和保护生物学，强调在当地和区域尺度上的生态变化，以及当地物种的人口变化。 除了研究用途外，阿赫博尔德还通过访问课堂大量用于教育，并有自己的活跃的K-12计划。 由于大量的私人捐赠，车站的面积将增加70%。新的土地增加，其中包括灌木栖息地和广泛的改善牧场，应允许该站启动新的研究计划，如长期研究恢复生态学的领域。利用这笔资金，该站将为未来的研究、土地管理和新收购的教育用途制定长期计划。 作为这项工作的一部分，将收集现有的信息，并将其放入一个地理信息系统，其中包括当前和历史遗址的信息。将举办三个规划讲习班：研究和土地管理讲习班、教育讲习班和单独的财务计划讲习班。PI将把研讨会的成果汇编成一份保护区的研究和土地管理、教育和财务计划，包括2年、5年和10-20年的目标、目的、成功的衡量标准和5年的实施时间表。除了用于车站的管理外，这些计划还将通过网络和其他分发手段向公众提供。

This award supports strategic planning for Archbold Biological Station which has recently expanded its land holdings through a significant private donation. Archbold was established in 1941 as a not-for-profit research institution dedicated to long-term ecological research. Staff, visiting investigators, and students conduct research focused on the environments of the Lake Wales Ridge, central Florida. Areas of research strength are population and conservation biology, emphasizing ecological changes over local and regional scales, and demographic shifts in local species. In addition to research use, Archbold is used heavily for education by visiting classes and has its own active K-12 program. As the result of a large private donation, the area of the station will increase by 70%. The new land addition, which includes scrub habitat and extensive improved pasture, should allow the station to initiate new research programs in areas such as long-term studies in restoration ecology. With the funds provided through this award, the station will develop a long-term plan for future research, land management and education use of the new acquisition. As part of this effort, existing information will be collected, and placed in a geographic information system containing both current and historical site information. Three planning workshops will be held: a Research and Land Management Workshop, an Education Workshop, and a separate Financial Plan workshop. The PI will compile workshop results into a Research and Land Management, Education and Financial Plans for the Reserve including 2, 5 and 10-20 yr goals, objectives, measures of success, and a 5-year implementation timetable. Besides being used for management of the station, the plans will be made available to the public using the web and other distribution means.