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/.

波多黎各大学里奥·皮埃拉斯校园（Rio Piedras Campus）被授予赠款，以提高El Verde Field Station的实验室能力。 El Verde一直是美国唯一的新热带雨林科学研究和培训的重要地点。 现场站位于波多黎各的El Yunque国家森林，这是一个实验性的森林，生物圈保护区，波多黎各大学的研究地点以及Luquillo的长期生态研究计划的重点。 涵盖2009 - 2019年期间的总体规划凸显了需要改善可用空间并在车站创建新的工作领域的必要性。 缺乏来访研究人员的工作空间是限制正在进行的研究项目和El Verde的潜在新项目的主要因素。 该电台目前的住房容量为51名游客，只有15个工作站，其中一些用于某些类型的研究有限。 该奖项将通过为访问科学家建立新的实验室来解决El Verde的紧迫空间问题。 新的1,000平方英尺的研究大楼将容纳10个新的高质量工作站。 每个电台将由可用于计算机或显微镜工作的基准空间或样品处理。 结合不断改善可用空间的持续努力，已经制定了一项计划，以增加30个工作站的研究空间可用性。 这将提供足够的研究空间来容纳正在进行的项目并促进车站的新研究。 REU学生（每年夏天的10-12岁）现在将拥有指定的工作区域，而对导师的依赖较少，以寻找工作场所。 El Verde Field Station已为许多用户提供服务已有30多年了。 自1990年代初以来，该车站每年在居住地保持了2000多天的访客记录。 来自波多黎各，美国大陆和其他国家 /地区的50多家机构的本科生，研究生，技术人员和教职员工都利用现场站作为其运营基地来研究热带雨林生态系统。 自1988年基金会以来，Luquillo lter网站已成为El Verde的主要地点。我们的Tropical Ecology领域的REU网站计划记录了每年夏天参加波多黎各人和其他少数民族学生的记录，其中许多人在El Verde任期后继续研究生院。可以在http://evfs.ites.upr.edu/上找到El Verde Field Station网站。