FSML Planning Grant: Developing a Strategic Plan and Infrastructure Needs Assessment for Washington State University's Meyer's Point Environmental Field Station

FSML 规划拨款：为华盛顿州立大学 Meyers Point 环境现场站制定战略计划和基础设施需求评估

• 批准号: 1723256
• 负责人: Stephen Bollens
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1723256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Planning; Grant; Developing; Strategic

The Meyer's Point Environmental Field Station, including 95 acres of undeveloped land and 2,100 feet of Puget Sound shoreline, was bequeathed to Washington State University (WSU) in 1990. This bequest stated that Meyer's Point should be used to promote environmental education, research, and the arts. Meyer's Point currently boasts substantial natural resources including extensive terrestrial, wetland and aquatic habitats. For the past 26 years, in keeping with this bequest, WSU and its many partners have utilized Meyer's Point for a range of environmental research, education, and outreach activities, including studies of shoreline native plants, marine invertebrates, butterflies, salt marshes and birds, water quality and ecosystem restoration. But these prior research, education and outreach efforts have generally been 'stand-alone' projects and not well coordinated. There is an opportunity to focus WSU's (and other institutions') research efforts in some high-profile and high-impact areas. WSU, the state's land-grant research university, has growing expertise in three new thematic areas relevant to the urban/rural interface that could guide the build-out of Meyer's Point: 1) Water Science; 2) The Interface between Agriculture and Ecosystems; and 3) "People and Place" in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. More broadly, WSU will adopt a consistent, intentional and interactive process at Meyer's Point for: 1) educating and training undergraduate and graduate students (e.g. hosting the "New REU Site: Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics: Integrating Terrestrial and Aquatic Perspectives" project), 2) engaging with K-12 teachers and students (e.g., the Olympia High School Earth Corps" has for many years cleared invasive plants and re-planted native late-succession tree species over several acres of land at Meyer's Point), and 3) reaching out to engage and inform the public (e.g., Meyer's Point is currently home to a community-based, non-profit oyster farm collaborative, that educates and provides hands-on experience developing, managing and distributing fresh, native oysters harvested from the site). The overall goal is to build Meyer's Point into a leading environmental research, education and outreach center for the Puget Sound Area, and by extension, the state of Washington and the nation, that is focused on environmental issues at the urban/rural interface. The three primary objectives for this planning grant are to: i) Learn about the needs, capabilities and aspirations of stakeholders, potential partnering institutions, and regional field stations, via a series of site visits; ii) Work with stakeholder and partner institutions to identify goals and outcomes for the next 5-years of growth at Meyer's Point, via a professionally facilitated workshop; and iii) Produce a detailed 5-year strategic plan that can guide WSU and its partners in facilities enhancement and fundraising for Meyer's Point.

迈耶点环境现场站，包括95英亩未开发的土地和2100英尺的普吉特海湾海岸线，于1990年被遗赠给华盛顿州立大学（WSU）。这一遗产应该用来促进迈耶的观点来促进环境教育，研究和艺术。 迈耶（Meyer）的观点目前拥有大量自然资源，包括广泛的陆地，湿地和水生栖息地。 在过去的26年中，WSU及其许多合作伙伴一致，将Meyer的观点用于一系列环境研究，教育和外展活动，包括对海岸线本地植物，海洋无脊椎动物，蝴蝶，蝴蝶，盐沼和鸟类，水质质量和生态系统恢复的研究。 但是，这些先前的研究，教育和外展工作通常是“独立的”项目，并且没有很好地协调。 有机会将WSU（以及其他机构）的研究工作集中在一些备受瞩目和高影响力的地区。 该州的土地授予研究大学WSU在与城市/农村界面相关的三个新主题领域的专业知识越来越大，可以指导迈耶观点的建立：1）水科学； 2）农业与生态系统之间的接口； 3）在艺术，人文和科学中的“人与地位”。 更广泛地说，WSU将在迈耶的观点上采用一致，有意和互动的过程：1）教育和培训本科生和研究生（例如，主持“新REU网站：景观生态学和生态系统动态”：整合地层和水上性的观点”，与K-12的教师和学生相结合（E. e.gia，E.G. invasive plants and re-planted native late-succession tree species over several acres of land at Meyer's Point), and 3) reaching out to engage and inform the public (e.g., Meyer's Point is currently home to a community-based, non-profit oyster farm collaborative, that educates and provides hands-on experience developing, managing and distributing fresh, native oysters harvested from the site). The overall goal is to build Meyer's Point into a海湾声音领域的领先环境研究，教育和外展中心，以及在城市/农村地区的环境问题上，该计划赠款的三个主要目标是：i）通过专业的讲习班和III的迈耶观点，接下来的5年增长的目标和成果产生了一项详细的5年战略计划，可以指导WSU及其在设施增强和筹款中的合作伙伴。