The Sevilleta Research Field Station: Development of a Long-term Sample Processing Laboratory and Storage Facility.

新墨西哥大学的罗伯特·R·帕门特博士和詹姆斯·R·戈斯博士获得了一笔赠款，用于塞维莱塔研究野外站的翻新项目，塞维莱塔研究野外站位于美国鱼类和野生动物服务局位于新墨西哥州中部的塞维莱塔国家野生动物保护区。塞维莱塔研究野外站为大量研究格兰德河谷中部的生态学、地质学、人类学和气候学的科学家和学生提供现场支持。在20世纪90年代的S年代，野外站的研究和培训用途大幅增加，野外站的实验室空间已超过现有设施的需求；此外，收集和存储土壤、植物材料和节肢动物干燥/保存样本的新的长期举措将需要扩大实验室和长期存储空间。利用NSF的这笔赠款以及新墨西哥大学的费用分摊，新墨西哥州大学的科学家们将实施一项分三部分的计划，他们将建造一座新的样品储存楼，并将空间站目前的商店/储存楼改造成实验室空间。该计划包括：(1)将空间站的商店业务转移到FWS正在建设的新的共享商店设施中，从而增强商店的能力并创造新的实验室空间；(2)建造一座新的存储大楼，用于现有现场设备和长期储存现场样本；以及(3)将旧商店/存储大楼翻新为样本处理实验室，配备实验室长凳、个案工作，并增加处理土壤和植被样本的烘箱能力。这些改进将净增加1500平方英尺的实验室空间，并使空间站的可用存储和商店空间几乎翻一番。最终结果将是为来访的研究人员和学生提供更多可用的工作空间，并更有效地利用与FWS相结合的建筑空间。改进后的设施将提高在塞维莱塔研究实地站进行的格兰德河谷中部地区的研究活动的数量和效率，因此将有助于建立关于美国西南部这一地区生态的大量数据库。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Robert R. Parmenter and Dr. James R. Gosz at the University of New Mexico for a renovation project at the Sevilleta Research Field Station, located on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. The Sevilleta Research Field Station provides field support to a large number of scientists and students studying the ecology, geology, anthropology, and climatology of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. The research and training use of the field station has increased dramatically in the 1990's, and demand for laboratory space at the field station has outstripped available facilities; in addition, new long-term initiatives for collecting and storing dried/preserved samples of soils, plant materials, and arthropods, will require expanded laboratory and long-term storage space. With this NSF grant, and with cost share from the University of New Mexico, the UNM scientists will implement a three-part plan in which they will build a new sample storage building and renovate the station's current shop/storage building into laboratory space. The plan includes: (1) moving the station's shop operations into a new, shared shop facility being constructed by FWS, thereby enhancing shop capabilities and creating new lab space, (2) constructing a new storage building for existing field equipment and long-term storage of field samples, and (3) renovating the old shop/storage building into a sample processing laboratory, complete with laboratory benches, casework and increased drying-oven capacities for processing soil and vegetation samples. These improvements will result in a net gain of 1,500 square feet of laboratory space, and nearly double the station's available storage and shop space. The net result will be more usable work space for visiting researchers and students, and a more efficient use of combined building space with FWS. The improved facilities will allow increases in both the quantity and efficiency of research activities in the Middle Rio Grande Valley conducted at the Sevilleta Research Field Station, and therefore will contribute to a large spectrum of databases on the ecology of this region in the American Southwest.