Increasing laboratory capacity at El Verde Field Station, University of Puerto Rico

提高波多黎各大学 El Verde 野外站的实验室能力

• 批准号: 1226717
• 负责人: Luis Ramirez-Ulate
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226717&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; laboratory; capacity; El; Verde

The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, is awarded a grant to increase the laboratory capacity of El Verde Field Station. El Verde has been a vital location for scientific research and training in the only neotropical rain forest under the jurisdiction of the United States. The field station is located in El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, which is an Experimental Forest, a Biosphere Reserve, a research site for the University of Puerto Rico, and the focus of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. A master plan covering the period 2009-2019 highlights the need to improve available spaces and create new work areas for research at the station. Lack of workspace for visiting researchers has been a major factor limiting ongoing research projects and potential new ones at El Verde. The station currently has a maximum housing capacity of 51 visitors and only 15 work stations, some of limited use for some types of research. The award will solve the pressing space problem at El Verde by building a new laboratory for visiting scientists. The new 1,000 sq. ft. research building will house 10 new high-quality work stations. Each station will consist of bench space that can be used for computer or microscope work, or sample processing. In combination with ongoing efforts to improve available space, a plan to increase research space availability for 30 work stations has been developed. This will provide enough research space to accommodate ongoing projects and facilitate new research at the station. REU students (from 10-12 every summer) will now have designated work areas and less dependenc on mentors to find places to work. El Verde Field Station has been serving a variety of users for more than 30 years. Since the early 1990s the station has maintained a visitor record of over 2000 days in residence a year. Undergraduate and graduate students, technicians and faculty from more than 50 institutions in Puerto Rico, mainland United States, and other countries use the field station as their base of operations to study tropical rain forest ecosystems. The Luquillo LTER site has made El Verde one of its main sites since its foundation in 1988. Our REU site program in tropical ecology has a record of enrolling Puerto Ricans and other minority students every summer, many of them continue to graduate school after their term at El Verde. El Verde Field Station web site can be found at http://evfs.ites.upr.edu/.

波多黎各大学Rio Piedras校区获得一笔赠款，以增加El Verde野外站的实验室能力。 埃尔维德一直是美国管辖范围内唯一的新热带雨林中进行科学研究和培训的重要地点。 野外观测站位于波多黎各的埃尔云克国家森林，这是一个实验森林，一个生物圈保护区，波多黎各大学的研究场所，也是卢基略长期生态研究计划的重点。 涵盖2009-2019年期间的总体规划强调需要改善空间站的可用空间并为研究创造新的工作区。 访问研究人员缺乏工作空间一直是限制El Verde正在进行的研究项目和潜在新项目的主要因素。 该站目前最多可容纳51名游客，只有15个工作站，其中一些工作站只能用于某些类型的研究。 该奖项将通过为访问科学家建立一个新的实验室来解决埃尔维德紧迫的空间问题。 新的1,000平方米。英尺研究大楼将容纳10个新的高质量工作站。 每个工作站将包括可用于计算机或显微镜工作或样品处理的工作台空间。 结合正在进行的增加可用空间的努力，制定了一项计划，为30个工作站增加研究空间。 这将提供足够的研究空间，以容纳正在进行的项目，并促进空间站的新研究。REU学生（每年夏天10-12岁）现在将有指定的工作区域，并且更少依赖导师来寻找工作场所。 El Verde Field Station已经为各种用户提供了30多年的服务。 自20世纪90年代初以来，该站保持着每年超过2000天的访客记录。 来自波多黎各、美国大陆和其他国家50多个机构的本科生和研究生、技术人员和教职员工利用该野外站作为其研究热带雨林生态系统的业务基地。 卢基略LTER站点自1988年成立以来，已使埃尔维德成为其主要站点之一。 我们在热带生态REU网站程序有每年夏天招收波多黎各人和其他少数民族学生的记录，他们中的许多人继续在埃尔维德他们的任期后研究生院。埃尔维德野外站的网站可以在http://evfs.ites.upr.edu/上找到。