A new laboratory for Blandy Experimental Farm

弗吉尼亚大学获得一笔赠款，以改善布兰迪实验农场的设施，布兰迪实验农场是一个位于雪兰多山谷北方的700英亩的环境科学野外站。夏季居民研究社区通常包括约35名教师，博士后，研究生和本科生，布兰迪通过内部资金和NSF REU网站赠款为这些研究人员提供支持。布兰迪的研究优势包括授粉生态学，植物-草食动物相互作用，景观生态学，入侵物种生态学，食物网和群落生态学以及地球化学循环。在过去的二十年里，布兰迪享有稳定的增长和生产力，但现在研究界已经开始达到或超过布兰迪的物理基础设施的能力。该奖项将资助建设一个新的3900平方米。英尺实验室建设，以满足未来20年的预期需求。该设施将包括360平方米。英尺的基本实验室空间，用于样品处理，两个360平方米。英尺第四间360平方米的实验室配备了用于分析工作的化学罩。英尺仪器和光学显微镜工作室。该建筑还将包括一个环境室，以及一个单独的冰箱、冰柜和烤箱室。一个新实验室的建设将影响布兰迪的所有计划。直接的好处将去目前由现有的实验室空间不足的研究人员，从居民和访问教师和研究生谁担任布兰迪研究项目的主要调查员开始。接下来是接受过主要研究人员培训且也在实验室工作的研究人员。这包括三个不同的群体：雷乌斯、RET和单独辅导的高中生。布兰迪的REU计划与霍华德大学和波多黎各大学- Bayamon建立了良好的合作关系，导致代表性不足的群体占REU学生的32%。布兰迪是国家生态观测网络（氖）计划中大西洋中部地区（域2）的一个“可重新定位”站点，重点关注土地利用和入侵物种。新的实验室设施将提供工作空间、标本储存空间、设备和参考材料的重要组合。布兰迪也是弗吉尼亚州植物园的所在地，并制定了一个与大学水平的研究计划紧密结合的推广计划。布兰迪的外展将间接受益于这个实验室设施，增加其外展计划所吸引的研究的强度和多样性。预计布兰迪？的推广计划将最终直接受益于新设施，通过后来的发展，毗邻的实验室空间，专门为高中学生。欲了解更多信息，请访问电台网站http://blandy.virginia.edu/。

The University of Virginia is awarded a grant to improve facilities at the Blandy Experimental Farm, a 700-acre environmental science field station in the northern Shenandoah Valley. The summer resident research community typically includes about 35 faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates, and Blandy provides support for these researchers through internal funds and an NSF REU site grant. Research strengths at Blandy include pollination ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, landscape ecology, the ecology of invasive species, food web and community ecology, and biogeochemical cycling. Blandy enjoyed steady growth and productivity over the past two decades, but now the research community has begun to reach or exceed the capacity of Blandy's physical infrastructure. This award will fund construction of a new 3900 sq. ft. laboratory building to meet projected needs for the next twenty years. The facility will include 360 sq. ft. of basic lab space for sample processing, two 360 sq. ft. rooms equipped with chemical hoods for analytical work, and a fourth 360 sq. ft. room for instrument and light microscopy work. The building also will include an environmental chamber, and a separate room for refrigerators, freezers, and ovens. The building of a new laboratory will impact all of Blandy's programs. The immediate benefit will go to the researchers currently underserved by existing laboratory space, starting with resident and visiting faculty and graduate students who serve as primary investigators on Blandy research projects. Next are researchers who are trained by those primary investigators and who also work in the laboratory. This includes three distinct groups: REUs, RETs, and individually mentored high school students. Blandy's REU program has well developed partnerships with Howard University and the University of Puerto Rico - Bayamon that have resulted in underrepresented groups constituting 32% of REU students. Blandy is a "relocatable" site in the Mid-Atlantic region (Domain 2) of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) program with a focus on land use and invasive species. The new laboratory facility will provide a crucial mix of work space, specimen storage space, equipment, and reference material. Blandy is also home to the State Arboretum of Virginia and has developed an outreach program that is strongly integrated with its university-level research programs. Outreach at Blandy will benefit indirectly from this laboratory facility by an increase in the strength and diversity of research on which its outreach programs draw. It is anticipated that Blandy?s outreach programs will eventually benefit directly from the new facility through the later development of adjacent laboratory space dedicated to high school students. For futher information, please visit the station website at http://blandy.virginia.edu/.