Toolik Field Station Base Funding

这项奖励将为运营Toolik野战站提供资金。TFS位于阿拉斯加布鲁克斯山脉的北麓，自1975年以来一直是北美北极国家和国际研究的主要地点。随着各学科科学家对利用北极观测系统作为北极环境和生态系统全年研究平台的持续浓厚兴趣，北极观测系统是一个长期生态研究点的所在地，北极观测系统已被选为国家生态观测网的北极冻土带选址，预计将于2014年开始在北极观测网络运行，而北极观测系统是SCANNET的成员，预计该网络将在国际极地年之后的国际北极观测网络倡议中成为一个关键的陆地组成部分。自1975年以来，基于TFS的研究发表了734篇同行评议的期刊文章，107本书和书的章节，以及81篇毕业论文。自1980年以来，TFS一直由阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学北极生物研究所(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空间站的核心运营。这第三个五年期协定的目标是，通过在安全条件下促进尖端技术研究，并全年提供具有成本效益的后勤和研究支持及科学服务，使TFS的科学用户能够增进关于北极、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。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，提供包括公用事业、住房、餐饮、现代实验室空间、安全培训和管理在内的支助，以及出色的研究支助。2011年，TFS将举办一次研讨会，评估TFS未来的科学支持需求，届时将有美国和国际参与者参加。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，促进记者、艺术家和公众对北极和研究过程的科学拓展和了解。

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.