A Specimen Processing Laboratory at Indio Mountains Research Station Headquarters

印第奥山研究站总部的样本处理实验室

• 批准号: 1954418
• 负责人: Vicente Mata-Silva
• 金额: $ 16.53万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Specimen; Processing; Laboratory; Indio; Mountains

A new clean laboratory (500 sq. ft.) will be built at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)'s Indio Mountains Research Station (IMRS). This laboratory will be devoted to lab research activities and for storing systematic collections of local fauna. The further expansion of the facilities at IMRS will enhance the station’s ability to house and service ecology and biology research, outreach, and accommodate educational student groups. The clean building is necessary for activities required today by cutting-edge science projects. IMRS has an important function educating persons at all levels of scientific study in the El Paso region, especially its high number of underrepresented Hispanics, which is a key factor when developing programs to best serve the regional community. The services associated with the new building will enable us to expand our present programs and provide opportunities to more researchers, middle school teachers and students, community college personnel, and university level educational groups interested on aspects of the northern Chihuahuan Desert, which is one probably of the least studied deserts in North America. Located next to the Mexican border and a large urban area, a modern IMRS will become a major player in ecological investigations and conservation practices.The Chihuahuan Desert has few areas with unrestricted access to places significantly conductive to field oriented research and education. IMRS provides a much needed venue for conducting those types of activities in mostly undisturbed terrestrial and aquatic environments. This new clean laboratory will improve the efficiency of current researchers and student projects. Additionally, the new laboratory will increase IMRS's ability to better serve groups of researchers, educational, and outreach personnel. UTEP, with IMRS being its major field investigation facility, is a foremost educator of underrepresented Hispanics in science and technology. It's enrollment of about 25,000 include over 72% Hispanic students, with a majority female. Teachers and future teachers involved in IMRS activities will have a big impact on the scientific competence of K-12 students enrolled in their classrooms and should increase interests in minority students electing to go into scientific disciplines at higher educational levels. The new facility improvement will allow UTEP's IMRS to serve and increase the competency of more people interested in Chihuahuan Desert studies by providing needed clean lab space and fulfill the demands of an R1 research university. https://www.utep.edu/indio/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.

德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校 (UTEP) 的印第奥山研究站 (IMRS) 将建造一个新的洁净实验室（500 平方英尺）。该实验室将致力于实验室研究活动并系统地储存当地动物群。 IMRS 设施的进一步扩建将增强该站容纳和服务生态学和生物学研究、推广和容纳教育学生团体的能力。洁净的建筑对于当今尖端科学项目所需的活动是必要的。 IMRS 在教育埃尔帕索地区各级科学研究人员方面发挥着重要作用，特别是其大量代表性不足的西班牙裔人，这是制定最好地服务该地区社区的计划的关键因素。与新大楼相关的服务将使我们能够扩大现有的项目，并为更多对奇瓦瓦沙漠北部的各个方面感兴趣的研究人员、中学教师和学生、社区学院人员和大学教育团体提供机会，奇瓦瓦沙漠北部可能是北美研究最少的沙漠之一。现代化的 IMRS 毗邻墨西哥边境和一个大城市，将成为生态调查和保护实践的主要参与者。奇瓦瓦沙漠很少有区域可以不受限制地进入对实地研究和教育具有重要意义的地方。 IMRS 为在大多数未受干扰的陆地和水生环境中开展此类活动提供了急需的场所。这个新的清洁实验室将提高当前研究人员和学生项目的效率。此外，新实验室将增强 IMRS 更好地为研究人员、教育和外展人员群体服务的能力。 UTEP（以 IMRS 为主要实地调查机构）是科学和技术领域代表性不足的西班牙裔最重要的教育者。其入学人数约为 25,000 人，其中超过 72% 是西班牙裔学生，其中大多数是女性。参与 IMRS 活动的教师和未来教师将对课堂上 K-12 学生的科学能力产生重大影响，并应增加少数族裔学生选择进入高等教育水平的科学学科的兴趣。新设施的改进将使 UTEP 的 IMRS 能够通过提供所需的清洁实验室空间并满足 R1 研究型大学的要求，为更多对奇瓦瓦沙漠研究感兴趣的人提供服务并提高他们的能力。 https://www.utep.edu/indio/该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。