Design for Upgrade of an Existing Biological Field Station for Conducting Collaborative Ecological Research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

现有生物野外站升级设计，以在大黄石生态系统中进行协作生态研究

• 批准号: 0533887
• 负责人: Robert Crabtree
• 金额: $ 2.45万
• 依托单位: Yellowstone Ecological Research Center
• 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: 2006-01-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533887&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Design; Upgrade; Existing; Biological; Field

The Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) is a non-profit research and education organization that has a ten year history of operation using leased facilities that are no longer sufficient to support its activities. This award supports a field station planning effort that will be the initial step in a multi-year process leading to the further development of an important biological field station providing access to the greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE). Through meetings involving researchers and educators who use or will use the station, outside scientific advisors, regional representatives of federal agencies, and local leaders, the planning effort will provide a master plan that identifies programmatic goals for the YERC station and the permanent facilities needed to support those programmatic goals. The field station is expected to serve as a staging ground for field education opportunities that will support Native American college students from the seven upper Missouri tribes, plus underserved rural Americans from within the region. The GYE is the largest nearly intact ecosystem in the temperate, industrialized world. Because of its remarkable geological properties, research in the GYE can lead to important discoveries at levels ranging from the microscopic scale (e.g., thermophilic bacteria in hydrogeothermal waters) to the ecosystem scale (e.g., seasonal elk migrations in the Northern Range). The planning process will include scoping of facilities for classroom interactions between resident and visiting scientists with students at all levels (K-Postdoctoral). Beginning in 2005, college-aged tribal members and K-12 rural Montanans will have access to the Field Station through a separately funded education program. An important part of the field station planning process will be to define building and lands designs that facilitate smooth transitions between the field and the classroom.

黄石生态研究中心（YERC）是一个非营利的研究和教育组织，有十年的运营历史，使用租赁的设施不再足以支持其活动。该奖项支持野外站规划工作，这将是一个多年进程的第一步，该进程将导致进一步发展一个重要的生物野外站，提供进入大黄石生态系统（GYE）的机会。 通过与使用或将要使用该空间站的研究人员和教育工作者、外部科学顾问、联邦机构的区域代表和地方领导人举行会议，规划工作将提供一个总体规划，确定YERC空间站的方案目标和支持这些方案目标所需的永久设施。 该野外站预计将作为野外教育机会的中转站，为来自密苏里州北部七个部落的美洲原住民大学生以及该地区服务不足的美国农村人提供支持。 GYE是温带工业化世界中最大的几乎完整的生态系统。 由于其显着的地质特性，在GYE的研究可以导致重要的发现，从微观尺度（例如，水文地热沃茨中的嗜热细菌）到生态系统规模（例如，北方山脉的麋鹿季节性迁徙）。 规划过程将包括为驻地和访问科学家与各级学生（K-博士后）之间的课堂互动确定设施范围。 从2005年开始，大学年龄的部落成员和K-12农村蒙大拿人将通过一个单独资助的教育方案进入外地站。 野外工作站规划过程的一个重要部分是确定建筑物和土地设计，以促进野外和教室之间的平稳过渡。