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

Toolik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的长期发展规划是以用户群体于1995年制定的长期计划为指导的。2003年12月TFS指导委员会会议的一项主要建议是，需要对基础设施、服务和功能的研究要求的方向提出当前的愿景。在过去几年中，TFS管理层听取了科学用户的请求，要求TFS摆脱科学设备的购置、维修和维护以及提供核心技术服务由单个科学项目完成的模式，转向一种新的模式，在这种模式下，更多的核心服务得到提供和集中支持。为了最好地应对是否以及如何开发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事项，需要科学用户群体的投入。还需要投入，以解决保护长期研究投资的战略的需要，以及进一步发展TFS的科学教育部分的计划。我们建议召开一次有重点的、规模相对较小的研讨会(20-25名受邀嘉宾)，参加研讨会的有在TFS工作的北极研究人员和其他在实地研究设施开发方面有经验的科学家。研讨会的目标包括以下几点。1)讨论TFS是否以及在多大程度上应该发展多用途的核心实验室设施和科学服务，如果应该，则确定这些设施的优先顺序。2)解决数据管理和连通性方面的哪些变化是必要的，以使TFS的科学达到新的复杂程度。3)为保留车站周围的长期控制区设定优先事项。4)讨论扩大TFS教育项目的可能性。该讲习班的主要成果将是一份总结讲习班建议的白皮书，以及关于在TFS实施多用途核心设施的优先计划。我们设想，这份文件可能会被用于规划未来的升级和科学服务，在TFS，由空间站管理和资助机构

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