Facilities Improvements at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Eastern Ecuador

厄瓜多尔东部蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站的设施改善

• 批准号: 0434875
• 负责人: Thomas Kunz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 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 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0434875&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facilities; Improvements; Tiputini; Biodiversity; Station

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.

在Thomas Kunz博士的指导下，波士顿大学Tiputini生物多样性站（TBS）获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持，以增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逊雨林，毗邻亚苏尼生物圈保护区。它是一个独特的野外观测站，受其西部安第斯山脉和东部广阔的低地雨林的影响。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，这将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，并改善为TBS提供物资和设备的运输系统。所有这些改进都将大大加强该站用户的研究能力，并将促进研究人员之间的交流。在其9年的运作中，有200多名研究人员，其中包括40名研究生，访问过TBS或进行过研究。此外，来自北美、南美和欧洲的2000多名大学生参加了基多旧金山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，在一个物种组合多样而复杂的地区从事生态、进化和保护研究，再加上一个受自然和人为力量影响的环境。