Field Facilities Improvements for Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology at the Kellogg Biological Station

密歇根州立大学(MSU)W.K.凯洛格生物站(KBS)获得了一笔赠款，通过翻新实验池塘设施的9个池塘，改善与池塘场地的网络基础设施连接，并在该设施安装紧急备用电源，以增加教育和研究机会。KBS是密歇根州立大学最大的校外单位，以生态学和进化生物学方面的研究、教育和推广而闻名世界。KBS提供各种自然和管理的栖息地，其中许多适合实验，以及现代实验室设施，以进行陆地和水生生态。KBS的研究活动已经发展到了我们的一些设施已经达到极限的地步。随着越来越多的常驻和访问研究人员在实验池现场工作，以及使用这个和其他KBS设施的教育和外展活动的日益多样化和数量，对基础设施的需求越来越大，要求我们升级和改进设施。将被翻新的9个池塘在过去20年里经历了自然演替，由于低氧气条件和茂密的沉水植被林，已经不适合进行许多类型的实验研究。这些池塘的翻新将使KBS能够继续服务于常驻和来访科学家的需求，同时确保实验设计的灵活性。这项奖励的资金还将用于将实验池塘设施连接到1 Gb光纤主干，该主干现在连接KBS和密歇根州立大学的主校园(利用密歇根州立大学的资金于2009年秋季安装光纤主干)。池塘地点和KBS教学楼之间的这种连接将为池塘地点自动传感器之间的数据传输提供网络基础设施支持，以及池塘实验室、KBS主地点和密歇根州立大学校园之间的其他新仪器。将在Pond实验室安装的备用发电机将确保可靠的温度和空气供应，以在停电期间保护生物(和实验)。

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) of Michigan State University (MSU) has been awarded a grant to enhance educational and research opportunities by renovating nine ponds at the Experimental Pond Facility, improving cyber-infrastructure connectivity to the pond site, and installing emergency backup power at the facility. KBS is the largest off-campus unit of MSU and is known worldwide as a premier field site for research, education, and outreach in ecology and evolutionary biology. KBS provides access to diverse natural and managed habitats, many suitable for experimentation, together with modern laboratory facilities, to conduct terrestrial and aquatic ecology. Research activity at KBS has grown to the point that some of our facilities are stretched to the limit. The increasing numbers of resident and visiting researchers working at the Experimental Pond Site, along with a growing diversity and number of educational and outreach activities using this and other KBS facilities, are putting increasing demand on infrastructure and require that we upgrade and improve the facilities.The nine ponds that will be renovated have undergone natural succession over the past 20+ years and have become unsuitable for many types of experimental studies due to low oxygen conditions and dense stands of submersed vegetation. Renovation of these ponds will allow KBS to continue to serve the needs of resident and visiting scientists, while ensuring flexibility for experimental design. Funds from this award also will be used to connect the Experimental Pond Facility to a 1Gb fiber optic backbone that now links KBS to MSU's main campus (fiber optic backbone installed in fall 2009 with MSU funds). This connection between the pond site and the KBS academic building will provide cyber-infrastructure support for data transfer between automated sensors at the pond site and other new instrumentation between the pond laboratory, the KBS main site, and MSU's campus. The backup electric generators to be installed at the Pond Laboratory with this award will ensure reliable temperature and air-supply to protect organisms (and experiments) during power outages.