Biogeoscience Institute

生物地质科学研究所(BGS)是一个向卡尔加里大学研究部副校长汇报工作的大学级别的研究所。它由两个设施组成：位于卡尔加里以西80公里卡纳纳斯基斯河谷的Barrier Lake站(建于1967年，使用NRC基础设施赠款)和位于卡尔加里西南120公里处绵羊河野生动物保护区的R.B.Miller站(建于1950年)。这两个车站全年都在运营。BGS还运营着两个研究分水岭。BGS的任务是为大学、政府和私营部门提供跨学科环境研究和培训的资源。英国地质调查局在加拿大落基山脉经营着唯一的野外观测站和研究分水岭。它每年平均吸引57名独立资助的研究人员，此外，它还促进了5个跨学科研究集群，有18名首席研究人员。堰塞湖站可容纳约110名用户，可使用高级服务实验室、生长室、船只、计算机设施、步入式冷藏室、暗室、地理信息系统实验室、GPS基站和漫游车单元、图书馆和植物动物学收藏。有一个主要的小屋，其中包括一个26人的宿舍和厨房/餐饮设施，全职厨师，以及一个实验室/图书馆大楼，有六个实验室和一个演讲室。第二间宿舍和厨房/餐饮设施可容纳30人。除此之外，还有五个复式单元、两个房子、一个小屋和三个活动房屋可供用户使用。R.B.米勒车站由一个小屋、厨房、燃料室、实验室、洗手间和一辆拖车组成。这些设施可容纳20名用户，并提供电力和水。BGS平均每年使用1.6万个用户日，在过去六年中被35所大学使用。15年以上项目16个，5-10年项目14个，2-3年项目56个。对外使用量总是大于卡尔加里大学的使用量。在过去的六年里，BGS的研究产生了56篇论文，319篇参考科学论文和3本书，14,600名学生参加了大学课程。

Biogeoscience Institute (BGS) is a University level Institute reporting to the Vice President Research of the University of Calgary. It consists of two facilities: The Barrier Lake Station (built in 1967 using NRC infrastructure grant) located in the Kananaskis River Valley 80 km west of Calgary, and the R.B. Miller Station (founded in 1950) in the Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary 120 km southwest of Calgary. Both stations operate year round. BGS also operates two research watersheds. The mandate of BGS is to provide resources for interdisciplinary environmental research and training to universities, government, and the private sector. The BGS operates the only field stations and research watersheds in the Canadian Rockies. It attracts each year on average 57 independently funded researchers and, in addition, facilitates five interdisciplinary research clusters with 18 principal investigators. The Barrier Lake Station can accommodate about 110 users with access to high service laboratories, growth chambers, boats, computer facilities, walk-in cold rooms, dark room, GIS lab, GPS base station and rover units, library, and herbarium-zoology collections. There is a main lodge which includes a 26 person dormitory and kitchen/dining facility with full time cook, and a lab/library building with six labs and one lecture room. A second dormitory and kitchen/dining facility holds 30 persons. Besides these, there are five duplex units, two houses, one cabin, and three mobile homes available to users. The R.B. Miller Station consists of a cabin, cookhouse, bunkhouse, laboratory, wash house and one trailer. The facilities can accommodate 20 users and provides electric power and water. BGS averages 16,000 user days per year and was used by 35 universities over the last six years. There are 16 projects that have lasted over 15 years, 14 projects that have lasted 5-10 years, and 56 projects that have lasted 2-3 years. External use is always greater than that by the University of Calgary. Over the last six years, 56 theses, 319 refereed scientific papers, and three books have resulted from research at BGS and 14,600 students have taken University courses.