Operation and Maintenance Support to Enhance Research and Highly Qualified Personnel Training at the Queen's University Biological Station

女王大学生物站（QUBS）一直处于基于大学的生态学，进化，保护和环境研究的培训和研究的最前沿。基于QUBS的工作已经产生了超过300篇本科生和研究生论文，以及超过1000篇同行评审论文，其中许多发表在领先的科学期刊上。它的两个校区提供实验室空间，现场和实验室设备，教室，图书馆，研究收藏，可容纳130人和一个工作人员厨房。QUBS的研究跨越了许多领域，从基于卫星的遥感，通过研究气候变化或毒素对环境的影响，到入侵物种和濒危物种。用户来自皇后大学、加拿大其他许多大学、非政府组织和政府机构，以及美国、欧洲、中国和拉丁美洲的机构。QUBS Elbow Lake教育中心提供科学推广和公共教育，重点是在车站完成的工作。使用费、女王的捐款和捐款支持维护和基本后勤，但QUBS缺乏任何专门的科学工作人员的资金。因此，我们请求NSERC资助一名博士级科学协调员和一名收集和数据管理员，为期2年，以解决这一关键赤字。科学协调员将组织研讨会，促进合作和数字通信，举办公开研讨会系列，并帮助监督学生实习生和HQP。收集和数据经理将帮助我们收集所有144，000种植物标本，对动物标本和组织进行编目，收集超过50年以前研究的数据，监控我们的NSERC资助的气候站网络，增强我们的GIS数据，并确保所有数据在我们的数据门户网站上可用。我们的8名共同申请人来自4所不同的大学，合作者来自全球超过25个组织。共同申请人在HQP驱动的研究方面具有模范记录，仅在过去5年中就发表了超过300篇同行评审论文。由这笔资金支持的研究和HQP培训计划将解决生态和环境科学的关键问题。更多的用户将有助于这些职位的长期财务可持续性。创建的项目、数据库和科学基础设施将在5年内培训超过175名HQP，并将通过开放获取数据档案对QUBS的研究和培训以及更大的科学界产生持久的影响。

The Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) has been at the forefront of university-based training and research in ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental studies for over 7 decades. QUBS-based work has produced > 300 undergraduate and graduate theses, and > 1000 peer-reviewed papers, many in leading science journals. Its two campuses provide lab space, field & lab equipment, classrooms, library, research collections, with accommodation for 130 and a staffed kitchen. Research at QUBS spans many fields, from satellite-based remote sensing, through studies of impacts of climate change or toxins on the environment, to work on invasive and at risk species. Users come from Queen’s University, from many other Canadian universities, NGOs and governmental agencies, and from institutions from the USA, Europe, China, and Latin America. QUBS Elbow Lake Education Centre provides science outreach and public education, with emphasis on work done at the Station. User fees, Queen’s contributions, and donations support maintenance and basic logistics, but QUBS lacks funding for any dedicated scientific staff. We thus request NSERC funding for a PhD-level Science Coordinator and a Collections and Data Manager for 2 years to address this critical deficit. The Science Coordinator will organize workshops, facilitate collaborations and digital communication, run public seminar series, and help supervise student interns and HQP. The Collections & Data Manager will help digitize all 144,000 specimens in our plant collection, catalogue animal specimens and tissues, digitize data from > 50 years of previous research, monitor our NSERC-funded climate station network, augment our GIS data, and ensure that all data are publically available on our data portal. Our 8 co-applicants come from 4 different universities, with collaborators from > 25 organizations worldwide. Co-applicants have exemplary records of HQP-driven research, and collectively have published > 300 peer-reviewed papers in the last 5 years alone. Research and HQP training programs enabled by this funding will address key issues in ecology and environmental science. Increased usership will assist with longer-term financial sustainability of these positions. Programs, databases, and scientific infrastructure created will enable training of > 175 HQP over a 5-year period, and will have enduring impacts on research and training at QUBS and for the larger science community via open access data archives.