FSML: A Regional Hub for the EON's at Lacawac Sanctuary

迈阿密大学被授予改善拉卡瓦克庇护所基础设施和设备的赠款。该项目将通过以下方式创建一个全年的水生光学分析实验室：1)翻新拉卡瓦保护区的游客中心，增加一个分析实验室(600平方英尺)。2)获取两种关键的核心光学仪器：UV-VIS扫描分光光度计和台式荧光仪。这两种研究仪器都是拉卡瓦创新光学传感器研究的组成部分。新增的设施将包括一个化学通风柜、一个净水系统、两个实验室水槽、实验室长椅和橱柜。拉卡瓦克在支持紫外线对湖泊群落和生态系统影响的研究、开发新的水生光学测量标准以及测试新兴传感器、传感器平台和传感器技术方面有着悠久的历史。这些改进，加上拉卡瓦工作人员及其研究社区现有的专业知识和目标，将使拉卡瓦能够更有效地作为生态观测网(EON)的区域研究和培训中心。拉卡瓦克保护区(http://lacawac.org/))是一个独立的非营利性野外站点和自然保护区，成立于1966年。拉卡瓦克位于宾夕法尼亚州东北部的波科诺山脉，距离140所高等教育机构不到100英里。由于没有自己的野外空间站，这些机构中的许多都依赖拉卡瓦克作为实地研究地点。拉卡瓦克也是许多高等教育机构的生态和环境科学课程周末实地考察的地点。拉卡瓦克保护区占地206公顷，包括一个21公顷的原始天然湖(拉卡瓦克湖)及其几乎所有的流域、湿地、两个小蓄水池和硬木和铁杉混交林。访问班级和研究人员可以访问物理、化学和生物湖泊数据以及天气和太阳数据的长期数据库。分析实验室空间和两个核心光学仪器将使拉卡瓦克能够在新兴传感器、传感器部署平台和其他EON方法方面加强其在培训学生和教师方面的领导地位。通过拉卡瓦的积极研究计划、培训研讨会和网站，每年有数百名学生和教职员工面对面或在虚拟世界中接触到他们。拉卡瓦克庞大的公众用户群和会员群是通过以下途径获得的：1)公共节目；2)季度通讯中的普通受众文章；3)网站和社交媒体网站；4)户外信息展板和小册子。

Miami University is awarded a grant for infrastructural and equipment improvements to Lacawac Sanctuary. This project will create a year-round Aquatic Optical Analysis Laboratory by: 1) renovating Lacawac Sanctuary's Visitor Center with the addition of an analytical lab (600 square ft.) and 2) acquiring two critical core optical instruments: a UV-Vis scanning spectrophotometer and benchtop fluorometer. Both research instruments are integral to the innovative optical sensor research at Lacawac. The addition will include a chemical fume hood, a water purification system, two laboratory sinks, laboratory benches, and cabinets. Lacawac has a long history of supporting research on ultraviolet radiation impacts to lake communities and ecosystems, the development of novel aquatic optical metrics, and as a site to test emerging sensors, sensor platforms, and sensor techniques. The improvements, together with the existing expertise and goals of the Lacawac staff and its research community, will enable Lacawac to serve more effectively as a regional research and training hub for ecological observatory networks (EON). Lacawac Sanctuary (http://lacawac.org/) is an independent, non-profit field station and nature preserve founded in 1966. Lacawac is located in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is within 100 miles of 140 institutions of higher education. Without a field station of their own, many of these institutions depend on Lacawac as a field site for research. Lacawac also serves as a site for weekend field trips in ecology and environmental science classes for many institutions of higher education. Lacawac Sanctuary is 206 ha in area, including a 21 ha pristine natural lake (Lake Lacawac) and nearly all of its watershed, wetlands, 2 small impoundments, and stands of mixed hardwoods and hemlock. Visiting classes and researchers have access to long-term databases of physical, chemical and biological lake data, and weather and solar data. Analytical laboratory space and the two core optical instruments will allow Lacawac to increase its leadership in training students and faculty on emerging sensors, sensor deployment platforms, and other EON approaches. Through active research programs, training workshops, and websites facilitated by Lacawac, hundreds of students and faculty are reached each year in person or in the virtual world. Lacawac's large public user base and member base is reached through: 1) public programs 2) general audience articles in a quarterly newsletter, 3) website and social media sites, and 4) informational outdoor display panels and pamphlets.