FSML: Increasing Summer and Shoulder Season Housing Capacity at the RMBL

该奖项支持在落基山生物实验室（RMBL）建设新住房，旨在为访问科学家、学生和研究助理提供春季、夏季和秋季住房。高原生物学研究站是一个独立的、非营利性的野外研究站，为希望在野外环境中研究高原生物学的研究人员和学生提供设施。该站的研究涉及气候变化、利用外来昆虫对森林病原体进行生物控制、空气污染和花粉运输等问题。该实验室同时为大约160名科学家、学生和研究助理提供研究和培训设施；在春季到秋季期间，RMBL提供大约1000个用户日。在过去的13年里，由美国国家科学基金会支持的一个暑期研究培训项目已经培训了140多名本科生。这些学生中约有三分之一来自生物科学领域代表性不足的群体。自从八年前采取新的战略计划以来，人民币城一直致力于将现有住房提高到可接受的标准。目前，住房足以在夏季合理地容纳147人；额外的人可以通过填满客舱来容纳他们。此外，由于缺乏足够的热量和水，大多数现有住房不适合在平季（春季和秋季）使用实验室的兴趣越来越大。新住宅面积为1200平方英尺。可容纳8人的ft客舱，将使用冬季供水系统；这个小屋将适度增加夏季的容量，但将使空间站在平季容纳科学家的能力增加一倍。

This award supports construction of new housing at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) intended to provide spring, summer and fall housing for visiting scientists, students and research assistants. The RMBL is an independent, nonprofit field station that provides facilities for researchers and students who wish to study high-altitude biology in a field setting. Research at the station has addressed issues in climate change, use of exotic insects for biocontrol of forest pathogens, air pollution and pollen transport. The laboratory provides research and training facilities for approximately 160 scientists, students, and research assistants at a time; over the course of the spring through fall seasons, the RMBL provides for roughly 1000 user-days. A summer research training program supported by NSF has trained over 140 undergraduate students in the last 13 years. About a third of these students were members of groups underrepresented in the biological sciences. Since adopting a new strategic plan eight years ago, the RMBL has focused on bringing its existing housing up to acceptable standards. Currently, housing is adequate to reasonably house 147 individuals during the summer; extra individuals are accommodated by filling cabins beyond their capacity. Additionally, there has been increasing interest in use of the Lab during shoulder seasons (spring and fall) when most existing housing is unsuitable due to lack of sufficient heat and water. The new housing will consist of a 1200 sq. ft. cabin with a capacity of 8 persons that will use a winterized water system; the cabin will provide a modest increase in summer capacity, but will double the station's capacity to house scientists in the shoulder seasons.