Sustainable Infrastructure for the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Upper Research Site

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。该提案寻求通过更换位于纽约州立大学奥内昂塔分校上部研究基地的实验室建筑来翻新生物野外站的资金。s生物野外站。Upper Research Site位于纽约州的Moe Pond附近，是一个相对偏远的研究区域，包括最古老的野外研究站。拥有近1000公顷的土地。该站点已被用于研究演替过程中老田的初级生产力、亲人蚊子群落生态学、吸虫和软体动物的生命周期和种群动态、渔业生态学、入侵物种的影响、与水质管理和土地利用相关的营养级联等主题。该考察站有支持女学生研究培训的记录，女性占考察站的52%。在过去的四十年里，美国的学生实习生。被提议替换的结构是一个原始的木结构野外实验室，大约5米x 12米。升级到更现代化的实验室空间将使研究人员有能力进行更复杂的研究，并使研究人员能够在鸟类学、寄生虫学、地貌学、植物学和种群生态学方面建立长期规划的项目。将从整修后的设施中受益的研究项目的例子包括：Moe塘渔业变化所引起的动态营养级联研究；研究蚊子种群对地点性质变化的反应（例如海狸活动的波动）；比较上部研究点酸性土壤上林地的养分径流与野外站点Thayer农场部分较基本土壤上主要农业土地覆盖的径流；鱼类寄生虫的研究，包括角锥虫（C. cornutum）和红叶锥虫（N. rutili）在寄主群体中的基因流动研究；鸟类学研究包括鸟类鸣叫的方式和原因、鸟类交流的互动性、繁殖行为、鸟类种群的长期研究以及人类干扰对雀形目动物繁殖成功的影响研究；跨生物群系水生碳生物地球化学及代谢研究。除了为研究提供基础设施外，改造还将为本科生和研究生研究人员提供资源。它将有助于培养新的湖泊管理理学硕士项目的研究生。改造将使其有可能延伸到上层研究基地，大学？大学预科课程的实地经验和相对较新的跨学科专业环境研究的顶点经验。整修后的实验室将在萨斯奎哈纳河上游流域的长期生态研究中发挥作用。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to renovate biological field station by replacing a laboratory building located on the Upper Research Site of SUNY-Oneonta?s Biological Field Station. The Upper Research Site is located near Moe Pond in New York State and is a relatively remote research area comprising the oldest of the field station?s nearly 1000-ha holdings. The site has been used for studies on primary productivity in old fields undergoing succession, community ecology of anthropophilous mosquitoes, trematode and mollusk life cycles and population dynamics, fisheries ecology, impacts of invasive species, trophic cascades associated with water quality management and land use, and other topics. The field station has a record of supporting research training for women students with women making up 52% of the field station?s student interns over the past four decades.The structure proposed for replacement is a primitive wood-frame field laboratory, about 5m x 12m. The upgrade to more modern laboratory space will provide researchers with the ability to conduct more sophisticated studies and will allow researchers to establish long-planned projects in ornithology, parasitology, geomorphology, botany, and population ecology. Examples of research projects that would benefit from the renovated facility include: studies of dynamic trophic cascades resulting from alterations in the fisheries in Moe Pond; research on the response of mosquito populations to changes in the nature of the site (e.g. fluctuations in beaver activity); comparison of nutrient runoff from forested lands on acid soils at the Upper Research Site with runoff from primarily agricultural land cover on the more basic soils of the Thayer Farm section of the field station; research on helminth parasites of fishes including a study of the gene flow of C. cornutum and N. rutili in their host populations; Ornithological research including how and why birds sing, the interactive nature of avian communication, breeding behavior, long-term studies of the avian population, and research on the impact of human disturbance on passerine reproductive success; research on cross-biome aquatic carbon biogeochemistry and metabolism.In addition to providing infrastructure for research, the renovation will provide a resource that will be used by undergraduate and graduate student researchers. It will contribute to the training of graduate students in a new Master of Science in Lake Management program. The renovation will make it possible to extend to the Upper Research Site, the university?s programs of pre-college field experiences and of capstone experiences in the relatively new interdisciplinary major in Environmental Studies. The refurbished laboratory will play a role in long-term ecological studies of the watershed of the upper reaches of the Susquehanna River.