Biogeoscience Institute

生物地球科学研究所（BGS）是一个大学级研究所，向卡尔加里大学副校长研究报告。 它由两个设施组成：位于卡尔加里以西80公里的卡纳纳斯基斯河谷的堰塞湖站（1967年使用NRC基础设施赠款建造），以及R.B.米勒站（建于1950年）位于卡尔加里西南120公里处的绵羊河野生动物保护区。这两个车站全年运营。BGS还经营两个研究流域。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资源。 BGS在加拿大落基山脉运营着唯一的野外站和研究流域。它每年平均吸引57名独立资助的研究人员，此外，还促进了五个跨学科研究集群，其中有18名主要研究人员。障壁湖站可容纳约110名用户，可使用高服务实验室、生长室、船只、计算机设施、步入式冷藏室、暗室、GIS实验室、GPS基站和流动站、图书馆和植物标本馆动物学收藏。 有一个主要的小屋，其中包括一个26人宿舍和厨房/餐饮设施与全职厨师，和一个实验室/图书馆建筑与六个实验室和一个演讲室。 第二个宿舍和厨房/餐厅设施可容纳30人。 除此之外，还有五个双工单元，两个房子，一个小屋和三个移动的家庭可供用户使用。 RB米勒站包括一个小屋，厨房，工棚，实验室，洗衣房和一辆拖车。这些设施可容纳20个用户，并提供电力和水。BGS平均每年有16，000个用户日，在过去六年中被35所大学使用。 历时15年以上的项目有16个，历时5-10年的项目有14个，历时2-3年的项目有56个。外部使用总是大于卡尔加里大学。在过去的六年中，56篇论文，319篇科学论文和三本书来自BGS的研究，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.