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layout, utility infrastructure, and technical facilities supporting the Station's core missions have degraded and are out of date.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.

弗吉尼亚大学获得一笔拨款，用于制定一项翻新计划和概念计划，用于更新和重新利用刘易斯大厅，这是山湖生物站 (MLBS) 的主要研究、教学和外展建筑。 MLBS 于 1929 年由大学创建，作为南阿巴拉契亚山脉研究和教学的内陆生物现场站 (http://www.mlbs.virginia.edu/)。 在过去的 40 年里，该站的科学研究主要集中在基于实地的种群研究，重点是进化、遗传学、生态遗传学、种群和群落生态学、行为生理学和保护。 MLBS 是一个全方位服务的住宿设施，提供现代野外站所需的全套科学、教学和后勤支持。 刘易斯厅 (Lewis Hall) 建于 1939 年，此后就没有进行过翻修。 虽然该建筑结构完好，出于历史和美学原因值得保存，但其基本的内部布局、公用基础设施和支持空间站核心任务的技术设施已经退化且过时。 这个为期一年的规划项目将产生一份计划文件，概述翻新后的刘易斯大厅的功能和教师需求。 该项目分为四个阶段： 第 1 阶段。收集所有现场站利益相关者（MLBS 当前和未来潜在的研究人员、讲师和外展人群）的意见； 阶段＃2。让国家野外站站长团体（例如生物野外站组织）参与由专业人士主导的研讨会，并访问姊妹站； 第三阶段。与校园内的规划专业人员合作，生成专业的规划文件。来自全国各地和世界各地的 29 个生物研究项目以山湖为家。 目前有 51 名研究生依靠 MLBS 完成博士论文。 过去五年里，共开设了二十个暑期课程。 去年，该站的会议和团体使用量翻了一番，达到 1,000 多个用户日。 该项目将代表着在提供新的研究、教学和外展服务方面向前迈出了一大步。 规划工作的核心将是建立公共外展设施。 MLBS 很快就能向公众、K-12、社区大学和其他地区人群提供资源和服务。 该站的教学和研究任务也将得到加强，使大学研究项目、小型学院和其他研究小组的教师、研究生和本科生培训项目、UVA暑期课程以及我们越来越多的外部访问团体、实地考察和会议受益。 我们相信，该规划项目所带来的改进将增加山湖的利用和多样性。