A Strategic Development Plan for the Hope College Field Station

希望学院野外站战略发展规划

• 批准号: 0434860
• 负责人: Kelvin Murray
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Hope College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2007-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0434860&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategic; Development; Plan; Hope; College

This award supports development of a strategic plan for the Hope College Nature Preserve, which consists of a 55-acre tract of unique dune forest near the shore of Lake Michigan with access to a neighboring, larger tract of land. Though the site is currently used for research and fieldwork in connection with coursework, the lack of infrastructure has impeded more extensive use. The planning effort will address three distinct but related themes: physical facilities, data acquisition and communications, and long-term financial needs. The 18-month planning process will include a conference that draws expertise from a large number of institutions that have successfully built and sustained field stations as part of their academic programs. The award will also sponsor visits by administrators from institutions with successful field stations, and visits by the PI and selected colleagues to field stations at other institutions to gain additional understanding of the infrastructural and administrative needs of successful small field stations. The aim of the process is development of a plan for enhancement of existing research and teaching programs, and for facilitation of collaborations in regional or possibly global initiatives in the study of environmental change.

该奖项支持为希望学院自然保护区制定战略计划，该保护区包括密歇根湖岸边一片55英亩的独特沙丘森林，可以进入邻近的更大面积的土地。虽然该网站目前用于与课程作业相关的研究和田野工作，但基础设施的缺乏阻碍了更广泛的使用。规划工作将涉及三个不同但相关的主题：有形设施、数据获取和通信以及长期财务需求。为期18个月的规划过程将包括一次会议，该会议将吸收大量机构的专业知识，这些机构成功地建立并维持了作为其学术项目一部分的野外空间站。该奖项还将赞助拥有成功的外地站点的机构的行政人员访问，以及国际和平倡议和选定的同事访问其他机构的外地站点，以进一步了解成功的小型外地站点的基础设施和行政需求。这一进程的目的是制定一项计划，以加强现有的研究和教学计划，并促进在环境变化研究方面的区域或可能的全球倡议中的合作。