Research Improvements at the UNM Sevilleta Field Station

新墨西哥大学塞维利亚现场站的研究改进

• 批准号: 1227181
• 负责人: Donald Natvig
• 金额: $ 9.68万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 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 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Improvements; UNM; Sevilleta; Field

The University of New Mexico is awarded a grant to complete the third and final phase of a long term strategic plan to improve the Sevilleta Education and Research Facility (SERF) for visiting scientists, summer REU students, graduate students and group training. This project involves the components to complete and equip shell spaces in the facility to provide growth chambers, a computer laboratory, and an institutional kitchen. The first consists of the acquisition of several environmental chambers of various sizes and capabilities to enable controlled-environment experiments with plants, insects, small animals and microorganisms. The second component is a multi-purpose computer research and training laboratory that will allow training and data analysis ranging from GIS to molecular evolution and ecology. Funds will provide for computer workstations, visualization equipment, and tables to furnish this multi-use classroom-sized computer laboratory. The third component is to complete kitchen facilities available to researchers participating in events such as training workshops, research conferences, LTER working groups, and formal and informal gatherings of REU summer students. Previous phases of this strategic plan have been completed and resulted in the construction of a new 20,000 square-foot facility and an increase in guest capacity from 48 to 82 through a combination of new construction and renovation of existing buildings. The intellectual merit exists in the goal to develop modern facilities for researchers in many fields of biological science. The broader impacts include greater access to learning opportunities and research facilities for an extremely diverse student population at UNM, and for other visiting scientists and their students from institutions within and outside New Mexico. UNM is a minority serving institution, and the Sevilleta Field Station and Sevilleta LTER Program are dedicated to enhancing minority participation in field-based research.For more information about the Sevilleta Education and Research Facility please visit: http://sevfs.unm.edu/

新墨西哥大学获得了一笔赠款，用于完成长期战略计划的第三阶段，也是最后阶段，以改善塞维莱塔教育和研究设施(SERF)，为来访的科学家、REU暑期学生、研究生和团体培训提供服务。该项目包括完成和装备设施中的外壳空间的部件，以提供生长室、计算机实验室和机构厨房。第一个包括购买几个不同大小和能力的环境室，以便能够对植物、昆虫、小动物和微生物进行受控环境实验。第二个组成部分是一个多用途的计算机研究和培训实验室，将提供从地理信息系统到分子进化和生态学的培训和数据分析。资金将提供计算机工作站、可视化设备和桌子，以配备这个多用途的教室大小的计算机实验室。第三个组成部分是完善厨房设施，供参加培训讲习班、研究会议、LTER工作组以及REU暑期学生正式和非正式聚会等活动的研究人员使用。这一战略计划的前几个阶段已经完成，结果建造了一个新的20000平方英尺的设施，并通过新建筑和现有建筑的翻新，将客流量从48人增加到82人。智力的价值在于为许多生物科学领域的研究人员发展现代化设施的目标。更广泛的影响包括为新墨西哥州大学极其多样化的学生群体以及新墨西哥州内外机构的其他来访科学家及其学生提供更多的学习机会和研究设施。联合国大学是一个为少数群体服务的机构，塞维莱塔实地站和塞维莱塔长期研究方案致力于促进少数群体参与实地研究。有关塞维莱塔教育和研究设施的更多信息，请访问：http://sevfs.unm.edu/