FSML: SERC Visiting Scientist Cottages

FSML：SERC 访问科学家小屋

• 批准号: 2039743
• 负责人: Anson Hines
• 金额: $ 40.58万
• 依托单位: Smithsonian Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; SERC; Visiting; Scientist; Cottages

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) provides field, lab and convening facilities at its 1,000 ha property on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in support of research on the interactions among ecosystems of the coastal landscape in response to climate and human impacts. With this award, SERC will build on-site short-term housing for visiting scientists relieving presently inadequate and deteriorating housing facilities that lack ADA accommodations. This investment is part of a much broader master plan for growing accommodation at SERC; it will ensure continued access for critical on-going research and will enable expanded opportunities for outreach. SERC is unique in its combined estuarine and terrestrial research that provides important long-term and large-scale data and unique experiments on land-sea interactions and responses to environmental change. It hosts numerous major research projects including participation in the National Ecological Observatory Network; long-term research on the effects of elevated CO2, stream discharge and water quality, estuarine fish & invertebrate community dynamics, tree demography; and experimental research on tree species diversity and ecosystem function. Access to these resources provide rich and diverse opportunities for visiting scientists to conduct both new research within the context of extensive background data and synthesis of multifactorial interactions. Access to SERC resources also provide unique opportunities for undergraduate intern training and graduate dissertations.Approximately 60 active extramural research projects leverage an array of long-term datasets, and the datasets are highly valued by our academic and governmental sponsors and collaborators. SERC Facilities support a 50-year history of both providing access to visiting scientists and informing environmental policy makers on emerging environmental issues. Short-term housing enables visiting researchers and educators to use SERC’s unique resources and site most efficiently and cost-effectively. SERC’s site is also hosts numerous tours for Congressional staff members and politicians from nearby Washington, DC, and the Maryland capital Annapolis. U.S. State Department often features SERC in tours of international visitors working on environmental resource management. SERC Facilities are also an important resource for SERC’s diverse array of collaborative research and training programs for academic partners. The Facility is a central feature of SERC’s professional training that annually supports 55 interns, 10 grad students, 25 postdocs and 570 visiting scientists for short and long periods. Approximately 130 of these visiting scientists actively conduct research on the site for multiple days at a time, and over 400 attend meetings, workshops and training annually. For more information on SERC, see https://serc.si.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.

史密森尼环境研究中心 (SERC) 在切萨皮克湾沿岸占地 1,000 公顷的土地上提供现场、实验室和会议设施，支持研究沿海景观生态系统之间的相互作用，以应对气候和人类影响。凭借这一奖项，国家电力研究委员会将为来访的科学家建造现场短期住房，以缓解目前缺乏 ADA 住房的住房设施不足和日益恶化的情况。这项投资是国家电力监管委员会增加住宿的更广泛总体规划的一部分；它将确保持续获得关键的、正在进行的研究，并将扩大外展机会。 SERC 的独特之处在于其河口和陆地联合研究，提供重要的长期和大规模数据以及关于陆地-海洋相互作用和环境变化响应的独特实验。它主持了许多重大研究项目，包括参与国家生态观测站网络；对二氧化碳浓度升高、溪流流量和水质、河口鱼类和无脊椎动物群落动态、树木人口统计学的影响进行长期研究；树种多样性和生态系统功能的实验研究。访问这些资源为访问科学家提供了丰富多样的机会，使他们能够在广泛的背景数据和多因素相互作用综合的背景下开展新研究。使用 SERC 资源还为本科生实习培训和研究生论文提供了独特的机会。大约 60 个活跃的校外研究项目利用了一系列长期数据集，这些数据集受到我们的学术和政府资助者及合作者的高度重视。 SERC 设施拥有 50 年的历史，既提供访问科学家的机会，又向环境政策制定者通报新出现的环境问题。短期住宿使来访的研究人员和教育工作者能够最有效、最具成本效益地使用国家研究委员会的独特资源和场地。 SERC 的网站还为来自附近华盛顿特区和马里兰州首府安纳波利斯的国会工作人员和政治家举办了多次参观活动。美国国务院经常在从事环境资源管理工作的国际游客参观中介绍国家电力研究委员会。 SERC 设施也是 SERC 为学术伙伴提供的各种合作研究和培训项目的重要资源。该设施是 SERC 专业培训的核心特色，每年为 55 名实习生、10 名研究生、25 名博士后和 570 名短期和长期访问科学家提供支持。其中约 130 名访问科学家一次在现场积极开展多日研究，每年有 400 多人参加会议、研讨会和培训。有关 SERC 的更多信息，请参阅 https://serc.si.edu/。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。