Workshop Proposal: A Science Vision for the Toolik Field Station, Alaska

图利克野外站（TFS）是美国北极研究的主要研究平台之一，近年来需求不断增加。TFS的长期发展规划以用户社区1995年制定的长期计划为指导。2003年12月TFS指导委员会会议的主要建议是，需要对基础设施、服务和功能的研究需求方向有一个当前的愿景。在过去几年中，TFS管理层听取了科学用户的要求，要求TFS从单个科学项目完成科学设备的购置、维修和维护以及提供核心技术服务的模式转变为集中提供和支持更多核心服务的新模式。为了最好地回答是否以及如何发展更多多用途核心设施和科学服务的问题，并确定实施这些设施和服务的优先次序，需要科学用户社区的投入。还需要投入来解决保护长期研究投资的战略需求，以及进一步发展TFS的科学教育组成部分的计划。我们建议召开一个重点突出的相对较小的研讨会（邀请20-25位嘉宾），与会者包括在TFS工作的北极研究人员和其他具有开发实地研究设施经验的科学家。研讨会的目标包括以下内容。1)讨论TFS是否以及在多大程度上应该发展多用途核心实验室设施和科学服务，如果是，优先考虑这些设施应该是什么。2)解决数据管理和连接方面的哪些变化是必要的，以使TFS的科学达到一个新的复杂水平。3)设定车站周边长期控制区的保存重点。4)讨论扩大TFS教育项目的可能性。本次研讨会的主要成果将是一份总结研讨会建议的白皮书，以及一份在TFS实施多用途核心设施的优先计划。我们设想，该文件可用于规划未来升级和科学服务在TFS，由站管理和资助机构

Toolik Field Station (TFS) is one of the major research platforms for U.S. arctic research, and has been in increasing demand in recent years. Planning for long-term development at TFS has been guided by a long-range plan produced by the user community in 1995. The need for a current vision for the direction of research requirements for infrastructure, services, and function was a prime recommendation of the December 2003 TFS Steering Committee meeting. Over the last few years, TFS management has heard requests from science users for TFS to move away from the model where acquisition, repair, and maintenance of scientific equipment and the provision of core technical services are done by individual scientific projects to a new model wherein more core services are provided and supported centrally. To best respond to the issues of whether and how to develop more multi-use core facilities and scientific services, and to establish priorities for implementing them requires input from the scientific user community. Input is also needed to address the need for strategies for protecting the long-term research investment, and for a plan to further develop the science education component of TFS. We propose to convene a focused and relatively small (20-25 invited guests) workshop of arctic researchers working at TFS and other scientists with experience in the development of field research facilities. The goals of the workshop include the following. 1) Address whether and to what extent TFS should develop multi-use core lab facilities and scientific services, and if so, prioritize what those facilities should be. 2) Address what changes in data management and connectivity would be necessary to enable the science at TFS to achieve a new level of sophistication. 3) Set priorities for the preservation of long-term control areas around the station. 4) Discuss possible expansion of the education program at TFS. The primary product of this workshop will be a white paper summarizing the recommendations of the workshop, and a prioritized plan for implementing multi-use core facilities at TFS. We envision that this document may be used for planning future upgrades and scientific services at TFS, by station management and funding agencies