Upgrading Research Facilites of Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve

位于纽约州伦塞勒维尔海德堡高原的埃德蒙·奈尔斯·休克保护区的生物研究站自1938年以来一直存在。自那时以来，约155名研究人员进行了225多个项目，发表了170篇论文。已经建立了关于地质、水文、气候和生物群的历史数据库。目前的研究项目集中在森林地面生物群和分解者食物网的生物学、森林演替以及行为生态学和进化。研究现在已经超越了对物种和设备(例如显微镜、烘干炉、高压灭菌器、天平)的简单分类，这是大多数研究人员需要的，他们使用保护区来回答今天提出的深入问题。许多研究提出了关于影响生物发生的因素的问题，必须提供可能影响生物分布的天气数据。该项目提供资金，通过增加所需的研究设备和气象站，以及主要研究人员生活区的越冬，帮助更新研究站的设施。

The Biological Research Station of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve on the Helderberg Plateau in Rensselaerville, N.Y., has been in existence since 1938. Since then some 155 researchers have conducted over 225 projects and published 170 papers. An historical data base has been developed on the geology, hydrology, climate, and biota. Current research programs focus on the biology of forest floor biota and the decomposer food web, forest succession, and behavioral ecology and evolution. Research has now moved beyond the simple cataloguing of species and equipment (e.g. microscopes, drying oven, autoclave, balance) is needed by most researchers that use the Preserve to answer the in-depth questions being posed today. Much of the research asks questions about factors that affect the occurrence of organisms and data must be available on weather which can affect biotic distributions. This project provides funds to help upgrade the facilities of the Research Station through the addition of needed research equipment and weather stations, and the winterization of the main researcher living quarters.