FSML: Site Improvement and Equipment Enhancement to Secure Long-Term Research Capabilities at Flathead Lake Biological Station

该合同将为弗拉黑德湖生物站（FLBS）的电气和通信基础设施的改进提供支持。该站成立于1899年，位于弗拉特黑德湖的东岸，位于落基山脉的一个引人注目的地区，被称为大陆之冠。车站工作人员和来访人员开展研究、培训和教育活动，包括利用车站位置的各种暑期课程。该站有4个长期核心项目：1)河漫滩生态与河流恢复；2)生物物理梯度生物多样性与生物生产；3)大型湖泊湖沼学；4)环境变化评价与生态系统建模。该站维持着大型的长期湖泊数据库，并越来越依赖于大量的遥感图像来进行生态系统过程的空间分析。通过该奖项支持的改进包括：1)地下铺设公用线路；2)应急备用电源和制冷；3)数据管理、网络安全和档案需要的设备和软件。拟议的改进对于确保过去的投资至关重要，将促进合作研究的发展，对于安全管理、分发和存档FLBS迅速增长和积累的大量电子数据库至关重要。

This award provides support for improvements in the electrical and communications infrastructure of the Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS). Established in 1899, the station located on the East Shore of Flathead Lake, within a remarkable area of the Rocky Mountains known as the Crown of the Continent. Station personnel and visiting staff conduct research, training and education activities, including various summer courses that take advantage of the station's location. The station has 4 long-term core projects: 1) floodplain ecology and river restoration, 2) biodiversity and bioproduction along biophysical gradients, 3) large lake limnology, and 4) environmental change assessment and ecosystem modeling. The station maintains large, long-term limnological databases and increasingly relies on high volume, remotely-sensed imagery for spatial analysis of ecosystem processes. Improvements supported through this award include: 1) underground placement of utility lines, 2) emergency backup power and refrigeration; 3) equipment and software for data management, network security and archival needs. The proposed improvements are central to securing past investment, will facilitate growth of collaborative research, and are essential for secure management, distribution, and archiving of the massive electronic databases rapidly growing and accumulating at FLBS.