FSML: Expanded lodging capacity for visiting researchers at the Konza Prairie Biological Station for the enhancement of research and training opportunities

堪萨斯州立大学获得拨款，将在Konza Prairie生物站(KPBS)上建造一座1860平方英尺的牧场式房屋。KPBS保护区占地3487公顷，由堪萨斯州立大学生物系管理，致力于长期生态研究、科学教育和草原保护的三重使命。KPBS出版的出版物总数现已超过1300份。KPBS是草原研究的首屈一指的网站，每年都吸引着各种各样的研究人员、大学班级、艺术家、作家和普通公众的访问者。这座房子将包括一间客厅、五间卧室、三个私人浴室、设备齐全的厨房和洗衣设施，并将使KPBS上的住宿能力增加62%。该设施将使空间站能够支持更多的访问科学家，容纳越来越多的更大的站点间研究小组在现场工作，并为长期游客提供更广泛的低成本现场住宿选择。KPBS的研究人员一直是包括NEON、LTER和STREON在内的各种区域、国家和国际研究小组的领导者。新增加的内容将同样增强KPBS？KPBS通过创造新的知识，包括与政策相关的研究，同时为学生提供机会和培训，使科学和社会受益。关于KPBS的广泛研究努力与许多针对学生和发展中科学家的教育和培训活动相联系，从K-12学生到本科生/研究生和博士后科学家。此外，KPBS每年通过其有组织的教育和推广方案接触到大约4300名普通公众。这一新设施的增加将使KPBS继续发展成为草原生态研究和推广的国家和国际资源。

Kansas State University is awarded a grant to construct a 1,860 square-foot ranch-style house on the Konza Prairie Biological Station (KPBS). KPBS is a 3,487 ha preserve managed by the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and dedicated to a three-fold mission of long-term ecological research, science education, and grassland conservation. The total number of publications attributed to KPBS is now over 1,300. KPBS is a premier site for grassland research and attracts a variety of researchers, University classes, artists, writers, and visitors from the general public every year. The house will contain a living room, five bedrooms, three private baths, fully-equipped kitchen, and laundry facilities and will increase the lodging capacity on KPBS by 62%. The facility will enable the station to support additional visiting scientists, accommodate the increasing numbers of larger inter-site research groups working on-site, and provide a wider range of low cost on-site lodging options for longer-term visitors. Researchers at KPBS have been leaders in various regional, national, and international research groups including NEON, LTER and STREON. The new addition will similarly enhance KPBS? ability to conduct outreach activities for K-12 and the general public.The KPBS benefits science and society by creating new knowledge, including policy-relevant research while providing opportunity and training for students. The extensive research efforts on KPBS are linked with numerous educational and training activities for students and developing scientists, from K-12 students to undergraduate/graduate students and post-doctoral scientists. In addition, KPBS reaches approximately 4,300 of the general public annually through its organized educational and outreach programs. The addition of this new facility will allow KPBS to continue to develop as a national and international resource for research and outreach on grassland ecology.