A Screened Lab Addition to Enhance New Ecological Research at Clemson's Baruch Institute

克莱姆森巴鲁克研究所经过筛选的实验室扩建项目将加强新的生态研究

• 批准号: 1624705
• 负责人: Skip Van Bloem
• 金额: $ 17.15万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624705&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Screened; Lab; Addition; Enhance; New

Coastal landscapes experience a variety of environmental stresses caused by changes in land
use, climate, storm frequency and intensity, and saltwater intrusion. Research at the Clemson University 
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science (BICEFS) focuses on understanding how three major components of the landscape - water, vegetation, and wildlife - are affected by and respond to man-made and natural disturbances. Research at BICEFS spans from the heart of cities to the wildest places in the landscape in an effort to understand how these components
are interconnected. In the last three years, BICEFS has doubled the size of its faculty from five to ten, adding new research lines in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, and ecosystem service economics. This project responds to that growth by adding a 1110-square-foot screened lab to an existing lab building to provide new, flexible workspace to support new research initiatives, field lab activities, and training. The institute's location in coastal South Carolina enables outside activities year-round and therefore the design provides energy efficiency and simplicity for cleaning, maintenance, and project specific set up. Like many field stations, BICEFS operates its labs and major equipment on a shared basis. Lab space is designated to various activities or analyses that support major research lines, rather than to individual investigators. As the faculty has expanded in the last two years, common space has been repurposed for more specialized uses and upgraded or new instrumentation has been added as part of start-up or state-funded initiatives. As a result, the lab is limited by available workspace for staging experiments, sample processing, instrument maintenance, etc. Various space studies have provided recommendations for lab space on a per scientist basis that is sufficient to support a vibrant research program and the development of graduate
and undergraduate research. To bring capacity up to these recommendations, a 1110-ft2 screened workspace will be constructed on the side and end of the existing laboratory building. The construction is a simple design, with a concrete slab, screened walls, and a metal roof. Basic electrical and plumbing hookups are included, as well as shelving, cabinets, and portable furniture. A walk-in cooler will be installed at one end of the space to store plant, soil, and animal samples. The flexible, all-season design facilitates research by faculty and students and, in part, that of collaborators from 39 other institutions that use the property. The design also facilitates lab-type classroom activities and workshops. The Institute's web site is www.clemson.edu/baruch.

海岸景观经历了各种环境压力，这些压力是由土地使用、气候、风暴频率和强度以及盐水入侵的变化造成的。在克莱姆森大学的研究
巴鲁克海岸生态和森林科学研究所（BICEFS）的重点是了解景观的三个主要组成部分-水，植被和野生动物-如何受到人为和自然干扰的影响和反应。BICEFS的研究范围从城市中心到景观中最狂野的地方，以了解这些组件如何相互连接。在过去的三年里，BICEFS的教师人数从五人增加到十人，增加了野生动物生物学，景观生态学和生态系统服务经济学的新研究方向。该项目通过在现有的实验室建筑中增加一个1110平方英尺的筛选实验室来应对这种增长，以提供新的灵活的工作空间，以支持新的研究计划，现场实验室活动和培训。该研究所位于沿海的南卡罗来纳州，全年都可以进行户外活动，因此设计提供了清洁，维护和项目特定设置的能源效率和简单性。像许多野外工作站一样，BICEFS在共享的基础上运行其实验室和主要设备。实验室空间被指定用于支持主要研究路线的各种活动或分析，而不是单独的研究人员。随着教师队伍在过去两年中的扩大，公共空间已被重新用于更专业的用途，并升级或新的仪器已被添加作为启动或国家资助的举措的一部分。因此，实验室是有限的可用工作空间进行分期实验，样品处理，仪器维护等各种空间研究提供了建议，为实验室空间的基础上，每个科学家，足以支持一个充满活力的研究计划和发展的研究生和本科生的研究。为了使容量达到这些建议，将在现有实验室建筑的一侧和末端建造一个1110平方英尺的屏蔽工作空间。该建筑设计简单，有混凝土板、屏蔽墙和金属屋顶。包括基本的电气和管道连接，以及架子，橱柜和便携式家具。一个步入式冷却器将安装在空间的一端，以存储植物，土壤和动物样本。灵活，全季节的设计有利于教师和学生的研究，部分是来自其他39个使用该物业的机构的合作者。 该设计还促进了实验室类型的课堂活动和研讨会。研究所的网址是www.clemson.edu/baruch。