Planning Activities: Development of the University of Mississippi Biological Field Station

多年来，密西西比大学生物野外站（UMBFS）一直是研究毒理学和人类对水生生物和生态系统影响的研究场所。这个野外工作站是一个网站，来自大学和其他机构的科学家代表许多学科，包括生物学，地质学，工程学，毒理学和药理学，可以参与跨学科的基础生态研究，以及应用研究，将影响人类健康，环境和农业。 由于最近的行政变化，UMBFS现在准备扩大其生态研究和教育使命的范围。 UMBFS位于北方密西西比约18公里的东北牛津校园。UMBFS于1985年被密西西比大学收购，占地约296公顷，包括松树和混合硬木林、低地森林、开阔地、泉水、池塘和中型生态系统，为水生生态系统的实验研究提供了独特的机会。 制定一项全面的方案、教育、教育和研究计划，以最好地利用UMBFS，尽可能广泛地接触到选民。 该研究所是一个多元化的设施，当全面发展后，将为有关陆地、水生和湿地生态的教育和研究活动提供基础设施。 目前的研究项目侧重于农业化学品，毒理学调查，鱼类遗传学和行为，鸟类和爬虫种群动态的相互作用对环境的影响，以及农业用水和保护的研究。 最近，UMBFS的使命已经扩大，为水产和环境科学的研究和教育提供更多的机会。 为了推进这一使命，该项目将有助于支持规划和方案的制定。

For a number of years, The University of Mississippi Biological Field Station (UMBFS) has been a research site for the study of toxicology and human impacts on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. This Field Station is a site where scientists from the University and other institutions representing many disciplines, including biology, geology, engineering, toxicology, and pharmacology, can participate in interdisciplinary basic ecological research, as well as applied research that will affect human health, the environment, and agriculture. Due to recent administrative changes, UMBFS is now poised to broaden its scope of ecological research and its educational mission. UMBFS is located in northern Mississippi approximately 18 kilometers northeast of the Oxford campus. Acquired by The University of Mississippi in 1985, UMBFS includes an area of approximately 296 hectares, and encompasses pine and mixed hardwood forest, bottomland forest, open fields, springs, ponds, and mesocosms offer unique opportunities for experimental research on aquatic ecosystems. A comprehensive programmatic educational educational and research plan developed to best utilize the UMBFS to reach the broadest constituency possible. The UMBFS is a multi- faceted facility that will, when fully developed, provide the infrastructure for educational and research activities concerned with terrestrial, aquatic, and wetlands ecology. Current research projects focus on impacts to the environment from interactions of agrichemicals, toxicological investigations, fish genetics and behavior, avian and herpetological population dynamics, and studies of agricultural water use and conservation. Recently, UMBFS's mission has been broadened to provide enhanced opportunities for both research and education in aquatic and environmental sciences. To further this mission, this project will help support planning and program development.