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

该奖项为平头湖生物站（FLBS）的电气和通信基础设施的改善提供支持。该车站建于1899年，位于平头湖东海岸，位于落基山脉的一个著名地区，被称为大陆之冠。 空间站的工作人员和来访的工作人员开展研究、培训和教育活动，包括利用空间站的位置举办各种暑期课程。该站有4个长期核心项目：1）洪泛区生态和河流恢复，2）生物多样性和生物生产沿着生物物理梯度，3）大型湖泊湖沼学，4）环境变化评估和生态系统建模。该站维持着大型、长期的湖沼学数据库，并越来越多地依赖大量遥感图像对生态系统过程进行空间分析。通过该奖项支持的改进包括：1）公用事业线路的地下放置，2）紧急备用电源和制冷; 3）用于数据管理，网络安全和存档需求的设备和软件。拟议的改进是中央，以确保过去的投资，将促进合作研究的增长，是必不可少的安全管理，分发和归档的大规模电子数据库迅速增长和积累在FLBS。

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.