Operations and Maintenance Support for Kluane Lake Research Station, Yukon

育空克鲁恩湖研究站的运营和维护支持

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00802
• 负责人: Marshall, Shawn
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616770
• 关键词: Operations; Maintenance; Support; Kluane; Lake

Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) has been operating in Yukon Territory since 1961, providing a platform for a rich array of long-running research programs in Earth, environmental, and biological sciences. The station is located in the foothills of the St Elias Mountains, Canada’s highest mountain range, connecting researchers to a dynamic environment at the junction of northern alpine, boreal forest, and lacustrine ecosystems. The environment surrounding KLRS and the long-term ecological and glaciological research programs supported by the station are unique within Canada. KLRS is the only western Canadian research station in the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic. The station is open from April until September each year, but also opens up periodically in the winter season to assist research projects. Facilities include a kitchen and accommodation for up to 40, lab space, communications infrastructure, an airstrip, and summer resource staff for field logistics. KLRS supports research groups and field schools from across Canada and the international research community. A total of 25 different institutions used the facility from 2013-2016, including 12 different Canadian universities, Yukon College, government scientists, and universities in the U.S., Finland, Sweden, the U.K., and Germany. Current research threads at KLRS include cross-cutting projects in herbivore ecology (e.g., population cycles; behavioural and physiological responses to environmental stress), vegetation dynamics (e.g., shrub-tree interactions; treeline response to climate change; role of shrubs in soil development in the alpine), ecotoxicology, lake hydrology, glacier hydrology and dynamics, cryosphere-climate processes, environmental reconstructions from lake sediments and ice cores, and remote sensing and climate downscaling studies for modelling of landscape response to climate change. All projects have a strong component of student training, in an exciting multidisciplinary milieu. The long-term research that is enabled by KLRS is of regional and international significance, as researchers, communities, governments, and stakeholders work to understand and quantify environmental change. Methods and discoveries based out of KLRS are widely adopted, for instance by the international community working to measure and model vegetation and glacier response to climate change, and the associated impacts on the global carbon cycle and sea level. Few places in the world offer access to such a dynamic landscape, with the opportunity to study environmental processes and interactions while maintaining long-term experiments and monitoring efforts. The scientific value of such studies and the stations that enable them cannot be over-stated.

克卢恩湖研究站（KLRS）自1961年以来一直在育空地区运行，为地球、环境和生物科学方面的一系列丰富的长期研究项目提供了一个平台。该站位于加拿大最高山脉圣埃利亚斯山脉的山麓，将研究人员与北方高山、北方森林和湖泊生态系统交界处的动态环境联系起来。KLRS周围的环境以及该站支持的长期生态和冰川学研究计划在加拿大是独一无二的。KLRS是北极陆地研究和监测国际网络中唯一的加拿大西部研究站。 该站每年4月至9月开放，但在冬季也定期开放，以协助研究项目。设施包括一个厨房和多达40人的住宿，实验室空间，通信基础设施，一个简易机场，以及夏季外勤后勤资源人员。KLRS支持来自加拿大各地和国际研究界的研究小组和实地学校。从2013年到2016年，共有25个不同的机构使用了该设施，包括12所不同的加拿大大学、育空地区学院、政府科学家和美国的大学，芬兰，瑞典，英国，和德国。 KLRS目前的研究线程包括草食动物生态学的交叉项目（例如，种群周期;对环境压力的行为和生理反应），植被动态（例如，灌木-树木相互作用;森林线对气候变化的反应;灌木在高山土壤发育中的作用）、生态毒理学、湖泊水文学、冰川水文学和动力学、冰冻圈-气候过程、湖泊沉积物和冰芯的环境重建、遥感和气候降尺度研究，用于模拟地貌对气候变化的反应。所有项目都有学生培训的强大组成部分，在一个令人兴奋的多学科环境。 KLRS支持的长期研究具有区域和国际意义，因为研究人员，社区，政府和利益相关者致力于了解和量化环境变化。基于KLRS的方法和发现被广泛采用，例如国际社会致力于测量和模拟植被和冰川对气候变化的反应，以及对全球碳循环和海平面的相关影响。世界上很少有地方能够提供这样一个动态景观，有机会研究环境过程和相互作用，同时保持长期的实验和监测工作。这种研究的科学价值和使其成为可能的台站怎么强调也不过分。