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，该野外站拥有可供短期和长期访问的发达住房，研究实验室空间和教学/会议设施，位于喀斯喀特，塞拉和大盆地生态系统的交汇处。 该电台由加州州立大学奇科分校拥有，并得到了加州大学戴维斯分校的部分支持，最初是由敬业的教育工作者和学生以微薄的预算开发的，旨在提供草根科学和科学教育的典范。 由于其位置，该站为生物学，地球科学，环境科学，考古学和娱乐方面的研究和教育计划提供了重要的机会。 部分是因为它从来没有一个正式的发展或战略计划，该站面临着严重的体制和财政挑战，成为一个合作，在国家或国际生态研究的综合努力的生产现场。规划工作将通过多个步骤制定一项战略管理计划，包括为现有和潜在的外地台站用户（科学家和教育工作者）举办几次讲习班，以征求意见，并向北方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，将利用土木工程、建筑和环境科学/规划等课程的学生和一名专业设计顾问的现场评估来制定现场总体规划，该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业务计划，以确定未来发展和业务的资金来源。 规划的这些不同要素将采用生物实地站组织建议的模式，并征求其他站外部主任小组的意见。 鹰湖是加州最后一个原始的、残留的大湖之一。 它及其周围地区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，该站一直有发表研究的记录，并为培养众多生态学和其他科学的学生做出了贡献。 在这个奖项的帮助下，该站能够继续这一传统，并促进研究，培训，教学和学习的多层次整合。

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.