Development of a Longitudinal Strategic Plan for Research and Education at The Cayo Santiago Field Station, Puerto Rico

该奖项将支持为圣地亚哥岛野外站（CSFS）创建十年战略总体规划，CSFS是波多黎各大学的校外研究和教育设施，为科学界服务超过75年。CSFS提供了一个自由放养的恒河猴（Macaca mulatta）种群，用于研究项目，重点是行为，认知，人口统计学，生活史，生理学和遗传学。最近收购了一座新建筑，提供了理想的空间来开发足够的生物野外站设施，包括住房单元，实验室区域，会议空间和计算机实验室的开发，可以支持CSFS目前所做的研究并扩大社区外展计划。资金将允许一组来自相关背景的研究人员和专业人员进行现场访问，并提供必要的建议，以确定必要的翻修程度。总之，这是我们与其他专业人员一起努力改进现场站的理想时机。该项目将有助于直接努力发展国家的最先进的基础设施和实验室设置的CSFS的改善，这将提高CSFS？它的使命是为教育和研究界提供宝贵的服务，包括促进科学界代表性不足的群体的发展。作为美国唯一一所拥有灵长类动物中心的少数民族高等教育机构，CSFS代表了一个独特的地方，通过支持当地波多黎各学生和研究人员来增加科学的多样性。拟议的规划活动包括成立一个咨询委员会，该委员会将在CSFS举行为期两天的会议后帮助设计一个总体规划，该规划有三个具体目标：i）确定CSFS研究增长的潜力，并建立实现这一目标所需的技术，通信和设施更新，ii）制定一项计划，为本科教学和培训制定一项学术计划，iii）为学校学生和公众制定一项推广计划，并确定如何最好地将社区推广与正在进行的研究和教学相结合。欲了解更多关于野外观测站的信息，请访问加勒比灵长类动物研究中心圣地亚哥岛网页http://cprc.rcm.upr.edu/? q=cayodesc。

This award will support the creation of a ten-year strategic master plan for the Cayo Santiago Field Station (CSFS), an off-campus facility for research and education of the University of Puerto Rico that has served the scientific community for over 75 years. CSFS provides a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) for research projects focused on behavior, cognition, demography, life history, physiology and genetics. A new building has been recently acquired and offers the ideal space to develop adequate biological field station facilities, including the development of a housing unit, laboratory area, meeting space, and computer lab that can support the research currently done at CSFS and expand the community outreach program. Funding will allow a group of researchers and professionals from relevant backgrounds to perform a site-visit and offer advice needed to determine the extent of renovations necessary. In summary this is the ideal time to gear our efforts in conjunction with other professionals toward the improvement of the field station. This project will help direct efforts towards developing state-of-the-art infrastructure and laboratory settings for the improvement of the CSFS, which will enhance CSFS?s ability to forge ahead in its mission of providing an invaluable service to educational and research communities, including the advancement of underrepresented groups within science. As the only minority U.S. institution of higher education that hosts a primate center, the CSFS represents a unique place to increase diversity in science by supporting local Puerto Rican students and researchers. The proposed planning activity consists of the formation of an Advisory Committee that will help design a master plan following a two-day meeting at CSFS with three specific aims: i) to determine the potential for growth of research at CSFS and to establish the technological, communication, and facility renovations that would be necessary to accomplish such a goal, ii) to create a plan to develop an academic program for undergraduate teaching and training, and iii) to initiate the development of an outreach program for school students and the general public and to determine how best to integrate community outreach with on-going research and teaching. For more information about the field station, please visit the Caribbean Primate Research Center webpage for Cayo Santiago at http://cprc.rcm.upr.edu/?q=cayodesc.