Planning: Strategic Planning Workshop for the CSU Desert Studies Center

沙漠研究中心（DSC）是一个位于莫哈韦沙漠的住宅野外站，由加州州立大学系统运营。该设施支持研究和教育活动，提供了独特的丰富的生物体地质特征，对科学领域的研究很有价值。在过去的48年里，在加州州立大学系统的支持下，DSC已经成功地为大学和推广课程，研讨会和会议提供服务。目前，DSC每年支持数千次过夜访问，尽管大多数用户都是出于教育目的访问。DSC在支持研究方面具有巨大的未开发潜力。该项目支持沙漠研究中心制定五年战略计划，以促进研究基础设施的发展和促进机构的可持续性。DSC战略计划的制定将通过将于2024年初在沙漠研究中心召开的为期1.5天的研讨会进行。讲习班将由一名在机构规划方面有经验的外部评价员独立制定和实施。该讲习班的参加者将包括卫星空间站工作人员、伙伴机构和组织的区域利益攸关方、现有和潜在用户以及外地台站研究和运行方面的专家。在讲习班举行前几周，所有受邀者将收到一份详细的调查，以指导讲习班的开展和规划工作，在讲习班结束后，将要求与会者提供关于进程的反馈意见和补充信息，以支持战略计划的制定。研讨会结束后，在评估人员的支持下，规划工作指导委员会将制定正式的战略计划。该奖项反映了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。

The Desert Studies Center (DSC) is a residential field station located in the Mojave Desert operated by the California State University system. This facility supports research and education activities in a location that offers a unique wealth of living organisms geological features that are valuable for scientific field research. Over the past 48 years under the support of the California State University system, the DSC has ably served university and extension courses, workshops, and conferences. Currently the DSC supports several thousand overnight visits per year, though most users are visiting for educational purposes. The DSC has tremendous untapped potential for supporting research. This project supports the development of a five-year strategic plan for the Desert Studies Center to foster the development of research infrastructure and promote institutional sustainability.The development of the strategic plan for the DSC will be informed by a 1.5-day workshop to be convened early in 2024 at the Desert Studies Center. The workshop will be independently developed and implemented by an external evaluator who is experienced with institutional planning. Participants in this workshop will include DSC staff, regional stakeholders from partner agencies and organizations, current and potential users, and experts in field station research and operations. Several weeks before the workshop, all invitees will receive a detailed survey that will guide the development of the workshop and the planning effort, and after the workshop finishes, participants will be asked to provide feedback on the process and additional information to support the development of the strategic plan. After the workshop, with support of the evaluator, the steering committee of the planning effort will develop the formal strategic plan.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.