Laboratory Planning at Mountain Lake Biological Station

山湖生物站实验室规划

• 批准号: 1227098
• 负责人: Eric Nagy
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 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 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Planning; Mountain; Lake; Biological

The University of Virginia is awarded a grant to develop a renovation program and concept plan for updating and repurposing Lewis Hall, the primary research, teaching, and outreach building at the Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS). MLBS was founded in 1929 by the University as an inland biological field station for research and teaching in the Southern Appalachians (http://www.mlbs.virginia.edu/). In the last 40 years the Station's scientific research has focused on field based population studies with emphases in evolution, genetics, ecological genetics, population and community ecology, behavioral physiology, and conservation. MLBS is a full service residential facility that offers the complete range of scientific, instructional, and logistical support expected at a modern field station. Lewis Hall was constructed in 1939 and has not been renovated since. While the building is structurally sound and worth preserving for historical and aesthetic reasons, its basic internal layout, utility infrastructure, and technical facilities supporting the Station's core missions have degraded and are out of date. The one-year planning project will produce a program document outlining function and faculty needs in a refurbished Lewis Hall. The project has four phases: Phase #1. Collecting input from all field station stakeholders (MLBS current and potential future researches, instructors and outreach populations); Phase #2. Engaging the national field station directors' community (eg. Organization of Biological Field Stations) in a professionally lead workshop, and visiting sister field stations; Phase #3. Working with planning professionals on campus to generate a professional planning document.Twenty-nine biological research programs from across the country and around the world call Mountain Lake home. Fifty-one graduate students currently rely on MLBS for their doctoral work. Twenty summer courses have been offered in the past five years. Conference and group use of the Station has doubled to over 1,000 user-days in the past year. This project will represent a huge step forward in providing new research, instructional, and outreach services. Central to the planning effort will be the creation of public outreach facilities. MLBS will soon be able to provide resources and services to the general public, K-12, community college, and other regional populations. The teaching and research missions of the Station will also be enhanced, benefiting university-based research programs, faculty from small colleges and other research groups, graduate and undergraduate training programs, UVA Summer Session courses, and our increasing number of external visiting groups, fieldtrips, and conferences. We are confident the improvements resulting from this planning project will increase use and diversity at Mountain Lake.

弗吉尼亚大学获得了一项赠款，以制定一项翻新计划和概念计划，以更新和重新利用Lewis Hall，这是Mountain Lake Lake Biological Station（MLBS）的主要研究，教学和外展大楼。 MLB由大学于1929年成立，是南部阿巴拉契亚岛的内陆生物田间研究与教学站（http://www.mlbs.virginia.edu/）。 在过去的40年中，该站的科学研究集中在基于现场的人群研究上，重点是进化，遗传学，生态遗传学，人群和社区生态学，行为生理和保护。 MLBS是一家全面服务的住宅设施，可在现代现场站提供一系列的科学，教学和后勤支持。 刘易斯·霍尔（Lewis Hall）于1939年建造，此后从未进行过翻新。 尽管由于历史和审美原因，该建筑物在结构上是合理的，值得保存，但其基本的内部布局，公用事业基础设施以及支持该车站核心任务的技术设施已经降低并且已经过时了。 为期一年的计划项目将制作一份计划文件，概述经过翻新的Lewis Hall的功能和教师需求。 该项目有四个阶段：第1阶段。收集所有现场利益相关者的意见（MLBS当前和潜在的未来研究，讲师和外展人口）； 阶段2。参与国家野战站董事社区（例如，生物野战站的组织）参加专业领导研讨会，并参观姊妹野外车站； 阶段3。与校园的规划专业人员合作，生成专业计划文件。全国各地的二十九个生物学研究计划都称为Mountain Lake Home。 目前，五十一名研究生依靠MLB进行博士学位。 在过去的五年中，已经提供了二十个夏季课程。 在过去的一年中，该站的会议和小组使用已翻了一番，达到了1000多个用户周期。 该项目将在提供新的研究，教学和外展服务方面迈出巨大的一步。 计划工作的核心将是建立公共外展设施。 MLB将很快能够为公众，K-12，社区学院和其他地区人口提供资源和服务。 该站的教学和研究任务还将得到增强，从而使大学的研究计划，小学和其他研究小组的教师，研究生和本科培训计划，UVA夏季课程以及我们越来越多的外部访问小组，实地考察和会议受益。 我们相信，该计划项目所带来的改进将增加山湖的使用和多样性。