FSML: Improvements to Living Facilities, Data Communications, and Electrical Generation Capacity at the Bowdoin Scientific Station

鲍登学院位于芬迪湾的生物研究站鲍登科学站(BSS)获得了改善宿舍设施的拨款。BSS在许多方面都不同寻常，它由一所本科文科院校运营；提供进入各种陆地和海洋栖息地的途径；具有显著的生态特征(大潮、迁徙动物中的极端亲水性、自交相容的植物、尽管地理位置温和的北方植物群落，以及地理上孤立的动植物种群)；并拥有几个有价值的长期生态数据库，其中一些数据库跨越70多年。但真正让BSS与众不同的是它的科学生产力。考虑到它的规模小(最多20人，包括工作人员)，季节性使用，以及对本科生的关注，该站的发表率异常高(自1936年成立以来，有187篇同行评议论文；其中68篇是本科生撰写或合著的)。在过去的5年里发表了25篇论文。2008年7月对BSS进行的基础设施审计确定了4个方面的需要：(1)主宿舍的长期结构完整性，(2)人员能力，(3)发电能力，以及(4)互联网通信能力。该项目将通过翻新空间站的主宿舍来解决项目1和2。翻修将保留空间站的主要生活设施，并使这座建筑可容纳的人员数量增加一倍，确保科学生产力和教育机会的持续增长。BSS是一项特别有价值的研究和教学资产，通过让他们有机会与该领域的专业生物学家密切合作，培训和激励了数千名学生。这段经历对这些学生产生了深远而持久的影响，他们中有不成比例的人继续从事科学和环境管理工作。通过保持主宿舍的结构完整性和增加人员住宿，该项目将提高空间站能够支持的研究项目的质量和数量。此外，这些升级将使更多的班级能够利用空间站的设施。显然，这些升级将使鲍登的学生和教职员工受益。但由于空间站大约三分之一的用户传统上来自其他机构(包括本科生、研究生和教职员工)，这个基础设施项目的影响将远远超出Bowdoin社区。BSS基础设施的这些改进将使空间站继续履行其作为生态研究、学生培训和环境管理设施的使命。

Bowdoin Scientific Station (BSS), Bowdoin College's biological research station on the Bay of Fundy, has been awarded a grant to improve its dormitory facilities. BSS is unusual in many respects, it: is operated by an undergraduate liberal arts institution; provides access to a wide variety of terrestrial and marine habitats; has remarkable ecological characteristics (large tides, extreme philopatry among migratory animals, self-compatible plants, boreal plant communities despite temperate location, and geographically isolated plant and animal populations); and possesses several valuable long-term ecological databases, some of which span more than 70 years. But what makes BSS truly extraordinary is its scientific productivity. Considering its small size (20 person maximum capacity, including staff), seasonal usage, and undergraduate focus, the Station has an unusually high publication rate (187 peer-reviewed papers since its founding in 1936; 68 of which were authored or co-authored by undergraduate students). Twenty-five papers have been published in the past 5 years. Infrastructure audits of BSS conducted in July 2008 identified 4 areas of need: (1) long-term structural integrity of the main dormitory, (2) personnel capacity, (3) electrical generation capacity, and (4) internet communication capabilities. This project will address items 1 and 2 by renovating the Station's main dormitory. Renovations will preserve the main living facility at the Station and double the number of personnel that this building can house, ensuring continued growth of scientific productivity and educational opportunities. BSS is an exceptionally valuable research and teaching asset, which has trained and inspired thousands of students by giving them the opportunity to work in close collaboration with professional biologists in the field. This experience has a profound and lasting effect on these students, a disproportionate number of whom go on to careers in science and environmental management. By preserving the structural integrity of the main dormitory and increasing the personnel accommodations, this project will enhance the quality and quantity of research projects that the Station is capable of supporting. In addition, these upgrades will make it possible for more classes to take advantage of the Station's facilities. Clearly, these upgrades will benefit Bowdoin's students and faculty. But since approximately 1/3 of the Station's users traditionally come from other institutions (including undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty), the impact of this infrastructure project will reach far beyond the Bowdoin community. These improvements in infrastructure at BSS will allow the Station to continue fulfilling its mission as a facility for ecological research, student training, and environmental stewardship.