FSML Planning Activities: Research, Education and Facilities Planning for the Prescott College Field Station

近三十年来，普雷斯科特学院一直在加利福尼亚州海湾为本科生开设实地课程，特别是在墨西哥巴伊亚基诺、索诺拉和加利福尼亚州海湾米德里夫岛地区周围地区。尽管它是一所小型的文理学院，但它的使命是强调实地研究以及科学和环境研究的体验式方法。该学院最近在墨西哥索纳拉州巴伊亚基诺镇附近的加利福尼亚州海湾海岸购买了一个小型野外训练站，自1992年秋季以来一直在该训练站提供野外课程和促进研究。随着学院的发展，艺术硕士项目的设立，以及野外站招生和使用的增加，学院扩大了对普雷斯科特学院基诺湾文化和生态研究中心的承诺，任命了一名主任，聘请了一名管理人员，增加了运营预算，并致力于该站更广泛的使命，特别是在支持科学研究、独立学习和研究生方面。尽管空间站是一个很小的空间站，但它提供了无与伦比的进入独特而脆弱的生物区的机会，该生物区正面临越来越大的人类压力。这是从北部的佩纳斯科港到南部的瓜伊马斯，400英里长的索诺兰沙漠海岸上唯一的野战站。该项目将制定一项智能、连贯、长期的计划，以改进本科课程，为空间站的研究生研究创造机会，确定研究优先事项，并确定适当支持海洋和沙漠生态、岛屿生物地理学、文化人类学和人类对渔业的影响方面的研究所需的设施和设备。其目的是创建一个支持和融合合格实地研究与本科生实地课程和研究生学习的实地站。

Prescott College has been conducting field courses for undergraduates in the Gulf of California, and particularly in the area around Bahia Kino, Sonora, Mexico, and the Midriff Island region of the Gulf of California, for nearly thirty years. Although it is a small liberal arts school, its mission emphasizes field studies and experiential approaches to science and environmental studies. The college recently purchased a small field station on the coast of the Gulf of California near the town of Bahia Kino, Sonara, Mexico and has been offering field courses and facilitating research at the station since the fall of 1992. With the growth of the college, the creation of a Master of Arts program and increases in enrollment and use of the field station, the college has expanded its commitment to the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and ecological Studies by appointing a director,hiring a manage, increasing operating budgets and committing to a broader mission for the station,particularly in the area of support for scientific research, independent studies and graduate students. Although the station is a small offers unparalleled access to a unique and fragile bioregion, which is coming under increasing human pressures. It is only field station on a 400-mile stretch of Sonoran Desert coast from Puerto Penasco in the north to Guaymas in the south. This project will develop an intelligent, coherent, long-range plan that will improve the undergraduate curriculum, create opportunities for graduate research at the station, define research priorities and identify the facilities and equipment needs to properly support research in marine and desert ecology, island biogeography,cultural anthropology and human impact on fisheries. The intent is to create a field station that supports and blends qualify field research with undergraduate field courses and graduate studies.