FSML: Infrastructure for Whole-Plant Biology and Experimental Plant Ecology at the Harvard Forest

该奖项为温室和实验室设施的现代化提供了部分支持，用于哈佛森林的全植物生物学和实验植物生态学研究。对设施的改进包括：新的电气和机械系统和现有温室的自动气候控制，以及将提供一个多用户植物生理学实验室的翻新。拟议中的基础设施改善将为使用哈佛森林的研究人员提供最先进的设施，用于植物生物学和生态学的基础研究。这些设施将补充广泛的野外站点和自动化数据采集系统，这些系统由与美国国家科学基金会长期生态研究站点、美国能源部国家全球环境变化研究所计划和哈佛大学本科生森林研究计划相关的广泛用户群体使用。这些改进将促进植物结构、功能、生态生理学和群落生态学的实验工作与哈佛森林生态系统动力学的大规模研究的综合。这些设施将广泛用于研究生和本科生的论文研究，以及由美国国家科学基金会本科生研究经验奖和联合黑人学院基金-梅隆基金会少数民族本科生研究经验支持的研究和培训项目。

This award provides partial support for the modernization of greenhouse and laboratory facilities for research in whole-plant biology and experimental plant ecology in at the Harvard Forest. The improvements to facilities include: new electrical and mechanical systems and automated climate control for an existing greenhouse, and renovations that will provide a multi-user laboratory for plant physiology. The proposed infrastructure improvements will provide researchers using the Harvard Forest with state-of-the-art facilities for fundamental research in plant biology and ecology. The facilities will complement extensive field sites and automated data acquisition systems used by broad user groups associated with an NSF Long Term Ecological Research site, a DOE National Institutes for Global Environmental Change program, and the Harvard Forest Research Program for Undergraduates. The improvements will facilitate syntheses of experimental work on plant structure, function, ecophysiology, and community ecology with large-scale studies of ecosystem dynamics at the Harvard Forest. Facilities will be used extensively by graduate and undergraduate students involved in dissertation research, and research and training projects supported by a NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduate site award and by the United Negro College Fund-Mellon Foundation Research Experience for Minority Undergraduates.