The Sevilleta Research Field Station: Infrastructure Enhancements for High-quality Water Resources and Wireless Data Transmission

项目摘要。 新墨西哥州大学获得了一笔赠款，用于提高新墨西哥大学塞维利亚研究野外站的研究能力。 塞维利亚野外站位于新墨西哥州中部的美国鱼类和野生动物管理局的塞维利亚国家野生动物保护区（NWR）。 该站为大量研究中格兰德河谷生态学、地质学、人类学和气候学的科学家和学生提供后勤现场支持。 1990年代初，利用该外地站进行研究和培训的活动急剧增加，但仍在继续。 空间站在举办实地研究项目、研究专题讨论会、讲习班、会议和教育活动方面的作用不断增加，这突出了对空间站基础设施进行几项改进和增加的必要性。 该项目将提供资金，用于（1）改善现场站的住宅和实验室用水供应，以及（2）安装无线电中继系统的“无线云”，以便在Sevilleta站和现场计算机之间实时传输数据，数据记录仪，网络摄像头以及位于Sevilleta NWR研究区域的其他自动化仪器。 这些改进不仅将改善空间站的居住生活条件，还将大大提高研究人员使用塞维利亚NWR作为现场实验场地的基础设施能力。 改进后的高质量供水系统将为实验室实验和土壤质地和植物养分等测量提供去离子水和蒸馏水。 新的供水系统还将为全年使用现场站设施的驻地研究人员和讲习班/会议与会者提供质量更好的饮用水。 “无线云”将为当前和未来的自动化探头、仪器和摄像机提供“骨干”传输系统，这些探头、仪器和摄像机可提供许多环境参数的连续、实时测量（包括天气数据、土壤温度和湿度水平、二氧化碳波动、动物运动等）。

Project Abstract. A grant has been awarded to the University of New Mexico for improving the research capabilities at the UNM Sevilleta Research Field Station. The Sevilleta field station is located on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in central New Mexico. The station provides logistical 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 continued at a high level of activity, having increased dramatically in the early 1990s. Continual increases in the station's role in hosting field research programs, research symposia, workshops, conferences and educational activities have accentuated the need for several improvements and additions in the station's infrastructure. This project will provide funds for (1) enhancement of the field station's water supply for residence and laboratory use, and (2) install a "wireless cloud" of radio relay systems for real-time transmission of data between the Sevilleta station and field-situated computers, data loggers, web-cams, and other automated instruments located across the Sevilleta NWR study areas. These improvements will enhance not only residence living conditions at the station, but also will substantially improve the infrastructure capability for researchers using the Sevilleta NWR as a field experimental site. The improved, high-quality water system will provide deionized and distilled water for laboratory experiments and measurements of such things as soil texture and plant nutrients. The new water system also will provide better quality potable water for resident researchers and workshop/conference attendees who use the field station facilities throughout the year. The "wireless cloud" will provide the "backbone" transmission system for current and future automated probes, instruments and cameras that provide continuous, real-time measures of many environmental parameters (these include weather data, soil temperatures and moisture levels, carbon dioxide fluctuations, movements of animals, etc.).