Facilities Improvements at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Eastern Ecuador

在托马斯·昆兹博士的指导下，向波士顿大学蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站(TBS)授予了一笔赠款，以提供部分支持，以加强该站作为亚马逊雨林研究和高等教育学习基地的能力。TBS位于厄瓜多尔东部蒂普蒂尼河上的亚马孙热带雨林，毗邻亚苏尼生物圈保护区。它是一个独特的野外观测站，因为它与西边的安第斯山脉和东边广阔的低地雨林有关。TBS的主要目标是支持有助于保护和管理亚马逊生态系统的研究和教育。TBS目前的设施不足以满足该站的研究和教育目标。资金将用于建造一座新的实验室大楼，大大增加研究人员的实验室空间，安装用于互联网接入的卫星下行/上行链路，为长期研究人员建造新的住房，并改善向TBS提供用品和设备的交通系统。所有这些改进都将大大增强空间站用户的研究能力，并促进研究人员之间的交流。在空间站运行的九年中，超过200名研究人员，包括40名研究生，访问或进行了TBS的研究。此外，来自北美、南美和欧洲的2000多名大学生参加了旧金山基多大学和波士顿大学在TBS教授的课程。TBS为科学家和学生提供了独特的机会，让他们在一个物种组合多样和复杂的地区，以及受到自然和人为力量影响的环境中，从事生态、进化和保护研究。

A grant has been awarded to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) of Boston University under the direction of Dr. Thomas Kunz for partial support to enhance the Station's ability to serve as a base for research and higher education learning in the Amazonian rainforest. TBS is located in the Amazonian rainforest on the Tiputini River in eastern Ecuador, adjacent to the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve. It is a unique field station influenced by its association with the Andes to the west and the expansive lowland rainforest to east. The primary goal of TBS is to support research and education that will help conserve and manage the Amazon ecosystem. Current facilities at the TBS are inadequate to meet the research and educational goals of the station. Funds will be used to erect a new laboratory building that will significantly increase laboratory space for researchers, install a satellite downlink/uplink for Internet access, construct new housing for long-term researchers, and improve the transportation system for provisioning TBS with supplies and equipment. All of these improvements will significantly bolster the research capabilities of users of the station and will facilitate communication between researchers.In its nine years of operation, over 200 researchers, including 40 graduate students, have visited or conducted research at TBS. In addition, over 2,000 university students from North America, South America, and Europe have participated in courses taught at the TBS by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Boston University. TBS provides unique opportunities for scientists and students to engage in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation research in a region with diverse and complex species assemblages, coupled to an environment that is being influenced by both natural and anthropogenic forces.