ARFMP: Renovation of Paleontological Research Facilities at Field Museum of Natural History

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖为野外自然历史博物馆提供资金，用于翻新和修复地质系的古生物设施。这座建筑建于25年前，自1975年以来一直没有翻修过。受赠人提供的375,000美元和420,495美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊，将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化，并将允许多个用户住宿。该项目将解决在健康和安全以及研究质量和范围方面改善现有研究基础设施的需要，这些研究可以通过使供暖、通风和空调(HVAC)、电气和管道系统现代化；建造新的工作台；以及将地磁实验室和图像分析实验室搬到翻新的更大的专用房间来进行。该奖项通过为进行古生物研究和培养不仅来自美国而且来自许多其他国家的高质量本科生和研究生提供了一个更好的环境，从而促进了科学基础设施的建设。在这些实验室接受培训的学生可以获得这些杰出的古生物收藏品，他们可以受益于与他们有合作关系的邻近大学所没有的研究机会，即芝加哥大学、伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校和西北大学。田野博物馆学生的学习将补充这些合作机构的项目和设施。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the Field Museum of Natural History for the renovation and repair of paleontological facilities housed in the Department of Geology. This building was constructed more than 25 years ago and has not been renovated since 1975. The ARFMP grant of $375,000 and $420,495 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities and will permit the accommodation of multiple users. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure in terms of health and safety as well as of the quality and range of research that can be conducted by modernizing the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, and plumbing systems; constructing new workbenches; and moving the Geomagnetics Laboratory and Image Analysis Laboratory into renovated, larger, dedicated rooms. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of paleontological research and for the training of quality undergraduate and graduate students not only from the United States but also from many other countries. Students trained in these laboratories, with access to these outstanding paleontological collections, can benefit from research opportunities not available at the neighboring universities with which they have a collaborative relationship, namely, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Northwestern University. The studies of students at the Field Museum will complement the programs and facilities at these collaborating institutions.