Upgrading the Internet System at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）获得一笔赠款，通过安装电信系统来加强其研究和教育计划。 作为一个501c3组织，RMBL推进了对自然的深刻科学理解，促进了对地球的知情管理。 RMBL每年接待来自100多个机构的200名学生研究人员和科学家，提供受保护的研究地点和研究设施，作为实地研究地点与其所在机构之间的桥梁。 RMBL的研究为一系列生态和进化问题提供了重要的见解，包括进化，河流生态学，气候变化，人口动态，行为生态学和互惠。 此外，RMBL的研究为河流、水和空气质量以及气候变化的管理政策提供了信息。这笔赠款将支付安装一个工程互联网系统。 具体而言，它将资助安装防火墙、局域网交换机、适当的路由器和无线局域网组合。 该项目将提高记录和理解不断变化的世界的能力。 目前，科学家收集的信息中只有一小部分进入公共领域。 通过提供对互联网的可靠访问，我们可以增加被捕获、存档、记录并提供给未来科学家的数据的百分比。 此外，该系统将支持获取环境传感器收集的信息。 传感器技术的爆炸式发展大大增加了部署在现场环境中的自动化传感器的数量。 这笔赠款将提供管理来自这些传感器的信息流所需的基础设施。 通过支持获取和归档传感器和人类收集的信息，科学家将能够更好地发现长期变化。 本科生和研究生都直接与研究科学家合作，包括通过NSF的本科生研究经验计划资助的学生。 为学生提供现代电信技术以支持研究，将有助于培养一支有科学素养的劳动力队伍。有关RMBL的进一步资料可于http://rmbl.org/rockymountainbiolab/查阅。

The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) is awarded a grant to enhance its research and education programs by installing a telecommunications system. A 501c3 organization, RMBL advances the deep scientific understanding of nature that promotes informed stewardship of the Earth. Each year RMBL hosts 200 student researchers and scientists from 100+ institutions, providing access to protected research sites and the research facilities needed to serve as a bridge between field sites and their home institutions. Research at RMBL has provided critical insights into a range of ecological and evolutionary questions, including evolution, stream ecology, climate change, population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and mutualisms. Additionally, research at RMBL has informed policy on management of streams, water and air quality, and climate change. This grant will pay for installation of an engineered internet system. Specifically, it will fund installation of a firewall, a LAN switch, appropriate routers, and a wireless LAN portfolio. This project will increase the ability to document and understand a changing world. Currently only a small percentage of the information collected by scientists makes it into the public domain. By providing reliable access to the internet, we can increase the percentage of data that is captured, archived, documented, and made available to future scientists. Additionally, this system will support access to information being collected by environmental sensors. The explosion in sensor technology has substantially increased the number of automated sensors that are deployed in field environments. This grant will provide the infrastructure needed to manage the information flows from those sensors. By supporting access to, and archiving of, sensor and human-collected information scientists will be better able to detect long-term change.This grant will support education activities. Both undergraduate and graduate students work directly with research scientists, including students funded through NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Providing students access to modern telecommunications technology in the support of research will help create a scientifically literate workforce. Further information about RMBL may be found at http://rmbl.org/rockymountainbiolab/.