Toolik Field Station Base Funding

该合同将为Toolik野外观测站的运营提供资金。TFS位于阿拉斯加布鲁克斯山脉的北部山麓，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。随着众多学科的科学家对将TFS作为全年北极环境和生态系统研究的研究平台的持续浓厚兴趣，TFS是长期生态研究站点的站点，TFS已被选为国家生态观测站网络（NEON）的北极苔原站点，预计将于2014年在TFS开始运作，TFS是SCANNET的成员。它被设想为国际极地年之后国际持续北极观测网（SAON）倡议的关键陆地组成部分。自1975年以来，TFS已经发表了734篇同行评议的期刊文章，107本书和书籍章节，81篇研究生论文。自1980年以来，TFS一直由阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学北极生物研究所（IAB）运营和管理。NSF从2000年开始通过两份为期五年的合作协议支持该站的核心运营。第三个五年协议的目标是使TFS的科学用户能够促进北极、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，促进在安全条件下进行技术复杂的研究，并提供具有成本效益的后勤、研究支持和全年科学服务。支持包括公用事业、住房、膳食、现代化实验室空间、安全培训和管理，以及通过地理信息系统服务、基线环境监测以及常用科学设备的购置、维护和调度提供的优秀研究支持。2011年，TFS将举办一个研讨会，评估TFS未来的科学支持需求，该研讨会将有美国和国际参与者参加。TFS将继续促进跨学科边界研究的协调，为研究生和本科生提供杰出的研究和教育机会，并促进对北极的科学宣传和理解，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.