Planning Proposal for Eagle Lake Field Station

该奖项支持鹰湖野外站（ELFS）的战略规划工作，该野外站点具有开发的短期和长期访问住房，研究实验室空间，以及位于Cascade， Sierra和Great Basin生态系统交汇处的教学/会议设施。该站由位于奇科的加州州立大学所有，并得到了加州大学戴维斯分校的部分支持。该站最初是由专门的教育工作者和学生在有限的预算下开发的，目的是提供一个基层科学和科学教育的例子。由于它的地理位置，该站为生物学、地球科学、环境科学、考古学和娱乐等领域的研究和教育项目提供了重要的机会。在一定程度上，由于它从未有过正式的发展或战略计划，该站在成为国家或国际生态研究合作、综合努力的生产基地方面面临着严重的制度和财政挑战。规划工作将通过多个步骤制定一项战略管理计划，包括为目前和潜在的野外台站用户（科学家和教育工作者）举办几次讲习班，征求投入并向北加州及其周边地区的研究和教育界宣传台站。作为这项工作的一部分，将由土木工程、建筑和环境科学/规划等课程的学生和专业设计顾问进行现场评估，并制定一份现场总体规划。专业设计顾问将帮助制定最终的总体规划。这项工作还将包括制定行政和商业计划，以确定未来发展和业务的资金来源。规划的这些不同部分将采用生物外地站组织建议的模式，并征求其他站主任组成的外部小组的投入。鹰湖是加州最后一个原始的、残存的大湖之一。它及其周围环境为水生和陆地生态研究和监测提供了独特的机会。在过去的半个世纪里，该站发表了大量的研究成果，并为培养了许多生态学和其他科学领域的学生做出了贡献。在这个奖项的帮助下，该站能够继续这一传统，并在多个层面上促进研究、培训、教学和学习的整合。

This award supports a strategic planning effort by the Eagle Lake Field Station (ELFS), a field site with developed housing for short- and long-term visits, research lab space, and teaching/conference facilities located at the confluence of the Cascade, Sierra, and Great Basin ecosystems. Owned by California State University at Chico and supported in part by the University of California at Davis, the station was originally developed on shoestring budget by dedicated educators and students to provide an example of grassroots science and science education. Because of its location, the station provides significant opportunities for research and education programs in biology, geosciences, environmental sciences, archaeology, and recreation. In part because it has never had a formal development or strategic plan, the station faces serious institutional and fiscal challenges in becoming a productive site for collaborative, integrated efforts in national or international ecological research. The planning effort will develop a Strategic Management Plan through multiple steps, including several workshops of current and potential field station users (scientists and educators) to solicit input and to promote the station to the research and education community of northern California and environs. As part of the effort, a site master plan will be developed using site assessments by students in courses ranging from civil engineering, architecture, and environmental sciences / planning and a professional design consultant who will help in producing the final master plan. The effort will also include development of administrative and business plans to identify sources of funding for future development and operations. These various elements of the planning will employ models suggested by the Organization for Biological Field Stations, with input solicited from an external panel of directors of other stations. Eagle Lake is one of California's last original, remnant large lakes. It and its environs present unique opportunities for aquatic and terrestrial ecological research and monitoring. Over the past half century, the station has had a consistent record of published research, and has contributed to the training of numerous students in ecology and other sciences. With the aid of this award, the station be able to continue that tradition, and to promote the integration of research, training, teaching and learning at multiple levels.