Developing a Strategic Plan for Santa Cruz Island Reserve

圣克鲁斯岛保护区（SCIR）是加州大学自然保护区系统的39个野外考察站之一，位于加州八个海峡群岛中最大的一个，距离加州圣巴巴拉以南约25英里。SCIR吸引了来自美国各地的研究人员研究许多广泛的问题，从人类学，岛屿生态学，保护生物学到气候变化的生态反应。 为了最好地服务于不断增长的SCIR选区，同时使SCIR作为一种资源，该项目将为SCIR研究，教育，推广计划和设施制定一个长期（五到十年）的战略计划。该战略计划将阐明研究和教育用途的科学愿景，并对支持这一愿景所需的方案、设施需求和资源进行评估。该战略计划的目标是通过一个区域机构、非营利组织、学术界和外地站合作伙伴网络，加强SCIR的研究和教育活动，以及海峡群岛地区研究、教育和外联活动的区域协调，规划过程涉及通过虚拟和面对面的讲习班与关键利益攸关方接触，以确定区域协调机会。该战略计划将指导设施和方案改进的优先次序，以及加州海峡群岛地区研究人员、学生、教育工作者和自然资源管理人员的访问。环境科学硕士水平的学生在这一过程中的参与将提供生物研究，环境管理和相关领域的研究生水平的培训。在拟议规划进程支持的讲习班上与区域协调员接触，是建立代表海峡群岛的区域协调节点的正式步骤，该节点可以更有效地参与更大规模的全球观测站或气候变化研究工作。战略计划和规划进程将有助于正在进行的对话，并直接使对海峡群岛拥有管辖权的几个土地和野生动物管理机构受益，由于持续干旱和其他环境压力因素，近年来这些机构对土地管理信息的需求显著增加。圣克鲁斯岛保护区的URL是：http://santacruz.nrs.ucsb.edu/This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCIR) is 1 of 39 field stations in the University of California Natural Reserve System, and is located on the largest of California's eight Channel Islands, roughly 25 miles south of Santa Barbara, CA. SCIR attracts researchers from throughout the US to study many wide-ranging issues, from anthropology, island ecology, conservation biology to ecological responses to climate change. To best serve the growing SCIR constituency while perpetuating SCIR as a resource, this project will develop a long-term (five to ten year) strategic plan for SCIR research, education, outreach programs, and facilities. The strategic plan will articulate a scientific vision for research and educational use, and an evaluation of the programs, facility needs and resources necessary to support that vision. The goal of the strategic plan is to enhance research and education activities at SCIR as well as the regional coordination of research, education and outreach activities across the Channel Islands region through a network of regional agency, non-profit, academic and field station partners.The planning process involves engaging with key stakeholders through virtual and in-person workshops to identify regional coordination opportunities. The strategic plan will direct the prioritization of facilities and programs enhancements, and access for researchers, students, educators and natural resource managers in the California Channel Islands region. The involvement of an Environmental Science Masters level student in this process will provide graduate student level training in biological research, environmental management and related fields. Engaging with regional coordinators at workshops supported by the proposed planning process represents a formalized step in establishing a regionally coordinated node representing the Channel Islands that can more effectively participate in larger scale global observatory or climate change research efforts. The strategic plan and planning process will contribute to ongoing dialogue, and directly benefit several land and wildlife management agencies with jurisdiction over the Channel Islands, whose need for information to inform land management has increased markedly in recent years due to persistent drought conditions and other environmental stressors. The URL for the Santa Cruz Island Reserve is: http://santacruz.nrs.ucsb.edu/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.