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

FSML 为阿奇博尔德生物站新增主要土地提供规划拨款

• 批准号: 0224774
• 负责人: Hilary Swain
• 金额: $ 1.87万
• 依托单位: Archbold Expeditions, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0224774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Planning; Grant; Major; New

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.

该奖项支持Archbold生物站的战略规划，该计划最近通过大量私人捐款扩大了土地持有量。 Archbold成立于1941年，是一家致力于长期生态研究的非营利性研究机构。工作人员，访问调查人员和学生进行研究，重点是佛罗里达州中部威尔士山脊的环境。研究力量领域是人口和保护生物学，强调了对局部和区域尺度的生态变化，以及当地物种的人口变化。 除研究用途外，Archbold通过访问班来大量用于教育，并拥有自己的活跃K-12计划。 由于大量的私人捐款，该站的面积将增加70％。新的土地增加包括灌木丛栖息地和广泛改善的牧场，应该使该站能够在诸如恢复生态学的长期研究等领域启动新的研究计划。通过该奖项提供的资金，该电台将制定一项长期计划，用于未来的研究，土地管理和新收购的教育使用。 作为这项工作的一部分，将收集现有信息，并将其放置在包含当前和历史地点信息的地理信息系统中。将举行三个计划研讨会：研究与土地管理研讨会，教育研讨会和单独的财务计划研讨会。 PI将对储备金的研究和土地管理，教育和财务计划进行编译，包括2、5和10 - 20年目标，目标，成功措施以及5年实施时间表。除了用于管理站的管理外，该计划还将使用网络和其他发行方式向公众提供。