FSML: Increasing Summer and Shoulder Season Housing Capacity at the RMBL

FSML：增加RMBL的夏季和淡季住房容量

• 批准号: 0531582
• 负责人: Ian Billick
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0531582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Increasing; Summer; Shoulder; Season

This award supports construction of new housing at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) intended to provide spring, summer and fall housing for visiting scientists, students and research assistants. The RMBL is an independent, nonprofit field station that provides facilities for researchers and students who wish to study high-altitude biology in a field setting. Research at the station has addressed issues in climate change, use of exotic insects for biocontrol of forest pathogens, air pollution and pollen transport. The laboratory provides research and training facilities for approximately 160 scientists, students, and research assistants at a time; over the course of the spring through fall seasons, the RMBL provides for roughly 1000 user-days. A summer research training program supported by NSF has trained over 140 undergraduate students in the last 13 years. About a third of these students were members of groups underrepresented in the biological sciences. Since adopting a new strategic plan eight years ago, the RMBL has focused on bringing its existing housing up to acceptable standards. Currently, housing is adequate to reasonably house 147 individuals during the summer; extra individuals are accommodated by filling cabins beyond their capacity. Additionally, there has been increasing interest in use of the Lab during shoulder seasons (spring and fall) when most existing housing is unsuitable due to lack of sufficient heat and water. The new housing will consist of a 1200 sq. ft. cabin with a capacity of 8 persons that will use a winterized water system; the cabin will provide a modest increase in summer capacity, but will double the station's capacity to house scientists in the shoulder seasons.

该奖项支持落基山生物实验室(RMBL)建造新的住房，旨在为来访的科学家、学生和研究助理提供春季、夏季和秋季的住房。RMBL是一个独立的、非营利性的野外站，为希望在野外环境中学习高海拔生物学的研究人员和学生提供设施。空间站的研究涉及气候变化、利用外来昆虫生物控制森林病原体、空气污染和花粉运输等问题。该实验室一次为大约160名科学家、学生和研究助理提供研究和培训设施；在春季到秋季的整个过程中，人民币贷款提供了大约1000个用户日。在过去的13年里，由NSF支持的暑期研究培训项目已经培训了140多名本科生。这些学生中约有三分之一是在生物科学领域代表性不足的群体的成员。自八年前采用新的战略计划以来，RMBL一直专注于将现有住房提高到可接受的标准。目前，住房足以在夏季合理地容纳147人；额外的人通过填满超出他们能力的舱位来容纳。此外，人们对在雨季(春季和秋季)使用实验室的兴趣越来越大，因为大多数现有住房由于缺乏足够的暖气和水而不适合使用。新的住房面积将达到1200平方米。英国《金融时报》可容纳8人的船舱将使用冬季供水系统；该船舱将适度增加夏季的能力，但将使空间站在肩季容纳科学家的能力增加一倍。