Support for Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve External Review Workshop and Report to Strategic Planning Committee

该奖项为一个研讨会提供了部分支持，该研讨会旨在为贾斯珀岭生物保护区的使用制定战略计划。贾斯珀岭拥有将长期研究核心与各种短期项目相结合的历史，这些项目代表了广泛的学科和不同的研究人员社区。研究领域包括：全球变化的多学科研究；生物入侵;生物地球化学;保护生物学;以及景观和社区生态。对研究、教育和公众接触的需求日益增加，对这三个领域的平衡和整合工作提出了重要问题。因此，大学召集了一个战略规划委员会，为保护区制定计划。作为这项工作的一部分，由该奖项支持的研讨会将邀请七名外部研究人员和教育工作者到自然保护区，讨论自然保护区未来几年面临的管理挑战。与会者、研究人员和具有国家或国际地位的实地站管理人员将向规划委员会提交一份书面报告，评估“自然保护区”资源是否充足，并就改善“自然保护区”的管理和政策提出建议。

This award provides partial support of a workshop intended to contribute to the development of a strategic plan for use of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Jasper Ridge has a history of combining a core of long-term research with a variety of short-term projects representing a broad range of disciplines and diverse community of researchers. Areas of research strength include: multi-disciplinary studies of global change; biological invasions; biogeochemistry; conservation biology; and landscape and community ecology. Increasing demand for research, education, and public outreach access have raised important questions about the balance and integration of efforts in all three areas. Thus the University has convened a strategic planning committee to develop a plan for the Preserve. As part of this effort, the workshop supported through this award will bring seven outside researchers and educators to the Preserve for discussion of the management challenges facing the Preserve in the coming years. The participants, researchers and field station managers of national or international stature, will produce a written report to the planning committee with an assessment of the adequacy of Preserve resources and recommendations for improvements in Preserve management and policy.