Toolik Field Station Base Funding

该奖项将提供资金，以经营图利克外地站。TFS位于阿拉斯加州布鲁克斯山脉的北方山麓，自1975年以来一直是北美北极地区国家和国际研究的主要地点。沿着来自广泛学科的科学家对将TFS用作北极环境和生态系统全年研究的研究平台的持续强烈兴趣，TFS是长期生态研究站点的所在地，TFS已被选为国家生态观测站网络（氖）的北极苔原站点，该网络预计将于2014年在TFS开始运行，TFS是SCANNET的成员，SCANNET被设想为继国际极地年之后的国际持续北极观测网络（SAON）倡议的关键陆地构件。自1975年以来，已经发表了超过734篇同行评议的期刊文章，107本书和书籍章节以及81篇研究生论文。自1980年以来，TFS一直由阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯北极生物研究所（IAB）运营和管理。NSF于2000年开始通过两项为期五年的合作协议支持该站的核心运营。第三个五年期协议的目标是，通过在安全条件下促进技术先进的研究，并全年提供具有成本效益的后勤和研究支持以及科学服务，使TFS的科学用户能够推进对北极、其生物和物理环境及其与全球系统的相互关系的跨学科知识。支持包括公用事业，住房，膳食，现代化的实验室空间，安全培训和管理，以及通过地理信息系统服务，基线环境监测和通用科学设备的采购，维护和调度提供的出色的研究支持。2011年，TFS将举办一次研讨会，评估TFS未来的科学支持需求，美国和国际参与者将参加。TFS将继续促进跨学科研究的协调，为研究生和本科生提供出色的研究和教育机会，并促进科学宣传和对北极的理解以及记者，艺术家和公众的研究过程。

This award will provide funding to operate Toolik Field Station. Located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska, TFS has been a major site for national and international research in the North American Arctic since 1975. Along with the ongoing strong interest by scientists from a broad array of disciplines for use of TFS as a research platform for year-round studies of the arctic environment and ecosystems, TFS is the site of a Long Term Ecological Research site, TFS has been selected as the arctic tundra site for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), which is expected to begin operations at TFS in 2014, and TFS is a member of SCANNET, which is envisioned as a key terrestrial building block in the international Sustaining Arctic Observatory Networks (SAON) initiative following International Polar Year. Over 734 peer-reviewed journal articles, 107 books and book chapters, and 81 graduate theses have been published since 1975 on research based at TFS. TFS has been operated and managed by the Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB), University of Alaska Fairbanks, since 1980. NSF began supporting core operation of the station in 2000, through two five-year cooperative agreements. The objective of this third five-year agreement is to enable science users of TFS to advance interdisciplinary knowledge of the Arctic, its biological and physical environments and their interrelationships with global systems, by facilitating technologically sophisticated research under safe conditions and providing cost-effective logistical and research support and scientific services year-round. Support including utilities, housing, meals, modern laboratory space, safety training and management, and excellent research support through GIS services, baseline environmental monitoring, and the acquisition, maintenance and scheduling of common-use scientific equipment. In 2011, TFS will conduct a workshop to assess science support needs at TFS into the future that will include U.S. and international participants. TFS will continue to promote the coordination of research across disciplinary boundaries, provide outstanding research and educational opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, and facilitate scientific outreach and understanding of the Arctic and the research process to journalists, artists, and the public.