Renovation of Wet Labs and Cyber-Infrastructure to Enhance Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic Science at SUNY-ESF

翻新湿实验室和网络基础设施，以加强纽约州立大学环境科学学院水生科学的综合研究和教学

• 批准号: 0963222
• 负责人: Neil Ringler
• 金额: $ 147万
• 依托单位: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963222&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Wet; Labs; Cyber; Infrastructure

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides funds for State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) to modernize The Center for Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic Science (CIRTAS) facility and Thousand Islands Biological (TIBS) field station. Funds will be provided to renovate existing wet labs at CIRTAS and a supporting wet lab at TIBS, and cyber-infrastructure to better link these facilities. CIRTAS is a shared-use facility housed in ESF's Illick Hall. It spans several departments, and was formed in 2006 to foster multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations, improve a shared resource facility for research and training, and strengthen linkages between aquatic research on the main campus and at the affiliated Thousand Islands Biological (TIBS) field station. TIBS is a primary research and student training site. The current experimental wet labs at the CIRTAS facility and TIBS are inadequate for current research and research training programs. This infrastructure project will greatly enhance research capabilities by (1) allowing research requiring sterile and clean techniques; (2) preventing cross-contamination and improving decontamination of facilities and waste-water; (3) improving temperature control for experimental rooms; and (4) upgrading cyber-infrastructure to facilitate collaborations between research teams and classes working at CIRTAS and TIBS by installing a high-speed data link at TIBS and a dedicated line and firewall to allow CIRTAS to host a server for data sharing. The proposed renovations are important for successful investigations of ecological and evolutionary processes linking diseases, non-native species, and toxins; they also allow the study of a wider taxonomic range of organisms and the use of modern tracers and genetic tools. Improved data and teleconferencing connections between CIRTAS and TIBS will allow investigators to link field observations with controlled experimental studies. CIRTAS and TIBS will be used to cross train graduate students in Chemistry, Environmental Biology, and Aquatic and Fisheries Science. The facilities currently support training programs for undergraduate students from groups traditionally under-represented in science (including the Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology programs). The staff work closely with state agencies and managers to include relevant results from research at CIRTAS and TIBS in management plans. Personnel are directly involved in public outreach, including stakeholder and teacher workshops, public presentations, and SUNY's "ESF in the High School" program. With the additional capacity at CIRTAS for streaming data from TIBS field sensors, the PIs will increase the facilities' web presence to include field and lab exercises for teachers, as well as searchable and real-time data for scientists and other stakeholders.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项为纽约的州立大学，环境科学与林业学院（SUNY-ESF）提供资金，以现代化水产科学综合研究和教学中心（CIRTAS）设施和千岛生物（TIBS）野外站。资金将用于翻新CIRTAS现有的湿实验室和TIBS的支持湿实验室，以及网络基础设施，以更好地连接这些设施。CIRTAS是一个共用设施，位于ESF的Illick Hall。 它跨越几个部门，成立于2006年，以促进多学科和跨学科的合作，改善研究和培训的共享资源设施，并加强主校区和附属千岛生物（TIBS）野外站的水生研究之间的联系。 TIBS是一个主要的研究和学生培训网站。目前在CIRTAS设施和TIBS的实验湿实验室是不够的，目前的研究和研究培训计划。该基础设施项目将通过以下方式大大提高研究能力：（1）允许需要无菌和清洁技术的研究;（2）防止交叉污染并改善设施和废水的净化;（3）改善实验室的温度控制;和（4）升级网络基础设施，以促进研究团队和班级之间的合作，在CIRTAS和TIBS工作，通过安装一个高，TIBS的高速数据链路以及专用线路和防火墙，使CIRTAS能够托管服务器以进行数据共享。 拟议的翻修对于成功调查与疾病、非本地物种和毒素有关的生态和进化过程非常重要;它们还允许对更广泛的生物分类学范围进行研究，并使用现代示踪剂和遗传工具。 CIRTAS和TIBS之间改进的数据和电话会议连接将使研究人员能够将现场观察与对照实验研究联系起来。 CIRTAS和TIBS将用于交叉培训化学，环境生物学，水产和渔业科学的研究生。这些设施目前支持传统上在科学领域代表性不足的本科生的培训计划（包括本科生的研究经验和环境生物学课程的本科生导师）。工作人员与国家机构和管理人员密切合作，将CIRTAS和TIBS研究的相关成果纳入管理计划。工作人员直接参与公共宣传，包括利益相关者和教师研讨会，公开演讲和纽约州立大学的“ESF在高中”计划。随着CIRTAS从TIBS现场传感器流数据的额外能力，PI将增加设施的网络存在，包括教师的现场和实验室练习，以及科学家和其他利益相关者的可搜索和实时数据。