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

位于芬迪湾的鲍登学院生物研究站鲍登科学站（BSS）获得了一笔赠款，用于改善其宿舍设施。BSS在很多方面都是不同寻常的，它是由一个本科文科院校运营的；提供进入各种陆地和海洋生境的通道；具有显著的生态特征（大潮汐，迁徙动物之间的极端亲缘关系，自相容植物，温带地区的北方植物群落，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，其中一些数据库的跨度超过70年。但让BSS真正与众不同的是它的科学生产力。考虑到其规模较小（包括工作人员在内最多可容纳20人）、季节性使用和以本科生为重点，该站的发表率异常之高（自1936年成立以来，共发表了187篇同行评议论文，其中68篇是由本科生撰写或合作撰写的）。近5年发表论文25篇。2008年7月对BSS进行的基础设施审计确定了4个方面的需求：(1)主宿舍的长期结构完整性，(2)人员容量，(3)发电能力，(4)互联网通信能力。该项目将通过改造车站的主宿舍来解决第1项和第2项。翻新将保留该站的主要生活设施，并将该建筑可容纳的人员数量增加一倍，以确保科学生产力和教育机会的持续增长。BSS是一项非常有价值的研究和教学资产，它为成千上万的学生提供了与该领域的专业生物学家密切合作的机会，从而培训和激励了他们。这种经历对这些学生产生了深远而持久的影响，他们中不成比例的一部分人后来从事科学和环境管理方面的职业。通过保持主宿舍的结构完整性和增加人员住宿，该项目将提高该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，这些升级将有利于鲍登学院的学生和教职员工。但由于该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），因此这个基础设施项目的影响将远远超出鲍登社区。这些基础设施的改善将使该站能够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.