Facilities Improvement at Hastings Natural History Reservation

该奖项为黑斯廷斯保护区的新住房建设提供支持，黑斯廷斯保护区是一个位于卡梅尔河谷上端偏远地区的野外站。该奖项将允许更换一个75岁的房子在恶劣的条件下，一个模块单元，能够容纳6至8人。 自1937年成立以来，黑斯廷斯的居民和访问研究人员对动物社会组织和生态变化的长期模式的基本理解做出了重大贡献。在黑斯廷斯的500篇研究论文中，有许多是由居住在该站或长期重复访问的研究人员进行的长期研究。目前，300多人使用空间站的用户日远远超过6 000个，其中三分之二是学生。 这意味着在过去10年中用户数量翻了一番。由此产生的住房需求导致最近提出的一些长期项目申请被拒绝。除了对基本认识的贡献外，黑斯廷斯动物社会组织的研究还出现在英国广播公司、国家地理和探索频道制作的公共教育电影中。黑斯廷斯对当地橡树林地的研究为目前保护橡树林地作为公众宝贵资源的努力提供了最初的动力。黑斯廷斯通过与教师的外联和合作支持当地K-12学区，此外，还为NSF资助的针对城市学生的GK-12计划提供了一个主要网站。

This award provides support for construction of new housing at the Hastings Reserve, a field station located in a remote area at the upper end of the Carmel River Valley. The award will permit replacement of a 75 year-old house in poor condition with a modular unit able to house 6 to 8 individuals. Since its beginning in 1937, resident and visiting researchers at Hastings have made significant contributions to basic understanding of animal social organization and of long-term patterns of ecological change. Many of the 500 publications resulting from research at Hastings come from long-term studies conducted by researchers living at the station or making a series of repeated visits over a long term. Station use is now at the level of well over 6,000 user-days by over 300 individuals, two-thirds of whom are students. This represents a doubling of the number of users in the last 10 years. The resulting demand for housing has caused some recent requests to initiate long-term projects to be denied. In addition to its contribution to basic understanding, research on the social organization of animals at Hastings has been featured in public education films produced by the BBC, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel. Research at Hastings on native oak woodlands provided the original impetus for current efforts to protect oak woodlands as valuable resources for the public. Hastings supports the local K-12 school district through outreach and collaborations with teachers and, in addition, provides a primary site for a NSF-funded GK-12 program aimed at urban students.