RUI: Improvement in Facilities at the SUNY College at Oneonta Biological Field Station

RUI：改善奥尼昂塔生物场站纽约州立大学学院的设施

• 批准号: 0533785
• 负责人: Willard Harman
• 金额: $ 12.54万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Oneonta
• 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=0533785&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Improvement; Facilities; SUNY; College

This award supports renovation of a two story, 2520 sq. ft. building to provide offices, a small reception area, a small conference room, and two large laboratory spaces at the SUNY College at Oneonta's Biological Field Station (BFS). The station, which dates from 1967, is located at Osego Lake, the headwaters for the Susquehanna River. The BFS consists of 5 parcels of land totaling over 2000 acres of land. The building is located one of these parcels, called the Thayer Farm, that was given to the BFS in 2001. The renovated building will mitigate severe overcrowding at the existing BFS main laboratory, and will allow separation of analytical research areas from field laboratories and program outreach. Pre-college and course-related undergraduate activities are concurrently moving from the main laboratory into another building on the Thayer Farm. The renovated building will make the BFS more attractive to visiting researchers by relieving crowding. As planned, the renovated spaces will allow assess to research sites on a year-round basis and minimize effort involved in operation of locally-placed, automated instruments for water collection and analysis. The BFS integrates research and instructional roles into a single coordinated effort addressing regional, and ultimately national, environmental problems, generally oriented towards ecological research and long-term monitoring programs on inland waters. Research at the BFS includes fisheries management and biology, population dynamics of zoo- and phytoplankton, ecology of benthic macroinvertebrates, characterization of nutrient flow through food webs consisting of freshwater protozoa, bacteria, and micrometazoa, as well as research related to terrestrial invasive species management and ecology of native plants. The BFS conducts long-term research and ecological monitoring of Otsego Lake, with some datasets that began over 100 years ago. These data are unique in that they have academic, applied, and teaching components. Ongoing projects have expanded monitoring efforts to include the testing of hypotheses relevant to management activities, including small experiments and whole-ecosystem (e.g., whole-lake) manipulations. As applied science, the projects serve the community by monitoring water quality, controlling cultural eutrophication, managing aquatic nuisance species and assessing environmental pollutants. As a model that unites academia with local, State and Federal partners to apply ecological theory directly to water quality management, the impact of BFS research extends beyond the local to regional and national levels. The BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate students) in ecological and environmental studies. The renovations are expected to help expand programs of research and technical training at the BFS, enabling more undergraduate students to master the technical and research skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions.

该奖项支持一个两层楼，2520平方米的翻新。英尺在纽约州立大学的生物学野外站（BFS），该实验室是一座建筑，提供办公室、一个小型接待区、一个小型会议室和两个大型实验室空间。该车站建于1967年，位于萨斯奎汉纳河的源头奥塞戈湖。 BFS由5块土地组成，总面积超过2000英亩。 该建筑位于这些地块之一，称为Thayer农场，于2001年交给BFS。翻新后的大楼将缓解现有BFS主实验室的严重拥挤，并将允许分析研究区域与现场实验室和项目外展分开。 大学预科和课程相关的本科活动同时从主实验室转移到塞耶农场的另一座建筑。 翻新后的大楼将通过缓解拥挤状况，使BFS对访问研究人员更具吸引力。 按照计划，翻新后的空间将允许评估人员全年对现场进行研究，并尽量减少当地放置的自动化水收集和分析仪器的操作工作。BFS将研究和教学角色整合到一个单一的协调努力中，解决区域性的，最终是国家性的环境问题，通常面向内陆沃茨的生态研究和长期监测计划。在BFS的研究包括渔业管理和生物学，动物园和浮游植物的种群动态，底栖大型无脊椎动物的生态学，通过由淡水原生动物，细菌和微型后生动物组成的食物网的营养流的表征，以及与陆地入侵物种管理和本地植物生态学相关的研究。BFS对奥塞戈湖进行长期研究和生态监测，其中一些数据集始于100多年前。这些数据是独一无二的，因为它们具有学术，应用和教学组成部分。进行中的项目扩大了监测工作，包括测试与管理活动有关的假设，包括小型实验和整个生态系统（例如，全湖）操作。作为应用科学，这些项目通过监测水质、控制养殖富营养化、管理水生有害物种和评估环境污染物为社区服务。作为将学术界与地方、州和联邦合作伙伴联合起来，将生态理论直接应用于水质管理的一种模式，BFS研究的影响超出了地方到区域和国家层面。BFS具有培养学生（大学生，本科生和研究生）在生态和环境研究的悠久传统。预计这些改造将有助于扩大BFS的研究和技术培训计划，使更多的本科生能够掌握进行研究生学习或专业培训所需的技术和研究技能，或获得相关的入门级职位。