FSML: Data Management and Communication Enhancement at San Diego State University Field Stations

该合同支持在圣地亚哥州立大学(SDSU)的两个野外站--圣玛格丽塔生态保护区(SMER)和天空橡树生物野外站(Sky Oaks)购买和安装用于数据管理和通信的计算机和通信设备和软件。目前，SDSU生物野外站定期收集大量数据，用于研究和教育项目。这包括来自Sky Oaks和SMER的天气数据，来自Sky Oaks的涡旋协方差和微气象数据，以及从这两个地点的生物监测项目收集的其他数据。扩大了生物监测活动，以便随着时间的推移，来自这些实地站的数据可以作为区域保护计划的比较点。该奖项所支持的改进将使来自Sky Oaks和SMER的数据能够被整合并发送到SDSU的主数据库服务器，在那里这些数据将通过互联网提供给其他机构的研究人员和教育工作者。SDSU的两个野外站位于圣地亚哥以北160公里处，但具有明显的混合热带地中海植被，在海拔和海洋影响(温度、降雨量)以及坡度和坡度方面存在差异。这些差异在小气候、太阳辐射、二氧化碳浓度和反映在动植物群落中的各种其他环境因素中产生了可测量的变化。这些观测站获得的数据可用于监测全球变化，以及与全球变化和生理生态有关的教育工作。

This award supports purchase and installation of computer and communications equipment and software to be used for data management and communications at two San Diego State University (SDSU) field stations, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER) and Sky Oaks Biological Field Station (Sky Oaks). Currently there is a wealth of data regularly being collected instrumentation at the SDSU Biological Field Stations for both research and educational programs. This includes weather data from both Sky Oaks and SMER, eddy covariance and micrometeorology data from Sky Oaks, and other data collected from biological monitoring programs at the two sites. The biological monitoring activities have been expanded so that, through time, the data from these field stations can be points of comparison for regional conservation plans. The improvements supported by this award will allow the data from Sky Oaks and from SMER to be integrated and sent to a main database server at SDSU where it will be available through the internet to researchers and educators at other institutions. The two SDSU field stations are located 160 km north of San Diego, but have distinct mixed-chaparral Mediterranean vegetation and differ in elevation and marine influences (temperature, rainfall) as well as slope and aspect. These differences produce measurable variations in microclimate, solar radiation, carbon dioxide concentrations and various other environmental factors that are reflected in plant and animal communities. The data obtained at the stations is of use in monitoring of global change, and in educational efforts related to global change and physiological ecology.