CSBR: Living Stocks: Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

CSBR：活畜：杜克狐猴灵长类生物学和历史研究中心的支持

• 批准号: 1756431
• 负责人: Anne Yoder
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756431&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Support; Duke

This award will partially support operations of the Duke Lemur Center (DLC). The DLC is a unique living stock collection of the world's most endangered and biologically diverse primates, the lemurs of Madagascar. The colony is the product of more than 50 years of captive breeding, institutional exchange, and initially, animals caught in the wild. Lemurs are unique to the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar, and due to their critically-endangered status, are not a renewable resource. The DLC is an exceptional training ground for students across all ages and academic levels. Over its 50-year history, thousands of students ranging from K-12 through postgraduate levels have been engaged in and inspired by their experiences at the DLC. Also, hundreds of thousands of visitors from the general public have been exposed to the concepts of biodiversity discovery and conservation, as well as the power of biological research via their exposure to the DLC's staff, students, and collections. The DLC serves as a living laboratory for advancing interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and biological conservation, covering biological disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology to brain sciences, evolutionary ecology, microbial metagenomics, comparative genomics, biomechanics, One Health disease dynamics, aging and demography, biodiversity conservation, paleontology, climate change, comparative physiology, speciation genetics, sensory biology, and more. The award will help the DLC meet its short and long-term goals, which include improving support for undergraduate research projects, engaging in exchanges and loan agreements to maintain and enhance species and genetic diversity, and harnessing new technologies to improve comparative biological research involving lemurs. The research and colony-care programs that will be supported by this project have oversight from a dedicated team of professionals who collectively represent five PhDs, three Masters degrees, two DVMs, and additively, more than two hundred years of direct experience with lemur research, health, husbandry, conservation, and captive management. The DLC is the only place in the world where lemurs are readily available to investigators, and where biological samples, decades of medical records, fossil representatives of extinct taxa, and rich life-history are available for comparative studies. Access to colony inventories, demographics, metadata and research opportunities is available on-line (lemur.duke.edu). The DLC serves multiple educational communities, including the general public, K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. For K-12 students, activities include summer camps and a variety of classroom learning and interactive activities with increasing engagement in long-distance learning through on-line tools for educational outreach. The veterinary department also supports educational activities via undergraduate work-study opportunities and veterinary student training. Critically, the DLC is committed to conservation activities via both ex situ captive management and extensive community-based Madagascar programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将部分支持Duke Lemur Center（DLC）的行动。 DLC是世界上最濒危和生物学上多样的灵长类动物，马达加斯加的狐猴的独特股票收藏。 该殖民地是超过50年的圈养繁殖，机构交流以及最初捕获在野外动物的产物。 狐猴是马达加斯加的生物多样性热点独有的，并且由于其急诊状态，这不是可再生的资源。 DLC是各个年龄段和学术水平的学生的杰出培训理由。 在其50年的历史中，从K-12到研究生级别的成千上万的学生受到了DLC的经验的参与和启发。 此外，来自公众的成千上万的游客已经接触到生物多样性发现和保护的概念，以及通过接触DLC的员工，学生和收藏的生物学研究的力量。 The DLC serves as a living laboratory for advancing interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and biological conservation, covering biological disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology to brain sciences, evolutionary ecology, microbial metagenomics, comparative genomics, biomechanics, One Health disease dynamics, aging and demography, biodiversity conservation, paleontology, climate change, comparative physiology, speciation genetics, sensory生物学等等。 该奖项将有助于DLC实现其短期和长期目标，包括改善对本科研究项目的支持，参与交流和贷款协议，以维持和增强物种和遗传多样性，并利用新技术来改善涉及狐猴的比较生物学研究。 该项目将支持该项目的研究和殖民地护理计划对一支专业的专业人士团队进行监督，他们共同代表了五个博士学位，三个硕士学位，两个DVM，以及附加的，超过两百年的直接经验，具有狐猴研究，健康，饲养，饲养，保护和俘虏管理。 DLC是世界上唯一可以为研究人员提供狐猴的地方，并且可以为比较研究提供生物样品，几十年的医疗记录，灭绝类群的化石代表和丰富的生活历史。 可以在线获得殖民地库存，人口统计，元数据和研究机会（lemur.duke.edu）。 DLC为包括公众，K-12，本科，研究生和研究生在内的多个教育社区提供服务。 对于K-12学生来说，活动包括夏令营和各种课堂学习和互动活动，并通过在线教育外展工具增加了长距离学习的参与度。 兽医部还通过本科工作机会和兽医学生培训来支持教育活动。 至关重要的是，DLC致力于通过现场俘虏管理和广泛的基于社区的马达加斯加计划进行保护活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。