FSML: SERC Visiting Scientist Cottages

史密森环境研究中心(SERC)在其位于切萨皮克湾海岸的1,000公顷土地上提供田野、实验室和会议设施，以支持对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的研究。有了这个奖项，SERC将为来访的科学家建造现场短期住房，以缓解目前缺乏ADA住宿的住房设施不足和恶化的问题。这项投资是SERC更广泛的总体计划的一部分，以增加在SERC的住宿；它将确保关键的正在进行的研究继续获得机会，并将使扩展机会成为可能。SERC在河口和陆地相结合的研究方面是独一无二的，该研究提供了关于陆地-海洋相互作用和对环境变化的反应的重要的长期和大规模的数据和独特的实验。它主持了许多重大研究项目，包括参与国家生态观测网络；关于二氧化碳升高的影响、河流流量和水质、河口鱼类和无脊椎动物群落动态、树木人口学的长期研究；以及树种多样性和生态系统功能的实验研究。对这些资源的获取为来访的科学家提供了丰富和多样化的机会，既可以在广泛的背景数据背景下进行新的研究，也可以综合多因素相互作用。获得SERC资源还为本科生实习生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赞助商和合作者的高度重视。SERC的设施支持了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提供关于新出现的环境问题的信息。短期住房使来访的研究人员和教育工作者能够最有效、最具成本效益地利用SERC的独特资源和场地。SERC的网站还为来自附近的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客提供了大量的参观活动。美国国务院经常在从事环境资源管理工作的国际游客的旅行团中安排SERC。SERC的设施也是SERC为学术合作伙伴提供的各种合作研究和培训计划的重要资源。该设施是SERC专业培训的一个主要特点，每年为55名实习生、10名研究生、25名博士后和570名访问科学家提供短期和长期的支持。这些来访的科学家中，大约有130人一次在现场积极开展多天的研究，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/.This奖项，该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.