RUI: Improvement in Facilities at the SUNY College at Oneonta Biological Field Station

该奖项支持翻新一栋两层的建筑，面积为2520平方米。英国《金融时报》在纽约州立大学奥尼奥塔生物野外站(BFS)的纽约州立大学，这座建筑提供了办公室、一个小接待区、一个小会议室和两个大型实验室空间。该站建于1967年，位于萨斯奎哈纳河的源头奥塞戈湖。BFS由5块土地组成，总面积超过2000英亩。这座建筑位于2001年交给BFS的其中一块地块上，名为塞耶农场。翻新后的大楼将缓解现有BFS主实验室的严重拥挤，并将允许将分析研究区域与实地实验室和方案外联分开。大学预科和与课程相关的本科生活动同时从主实验室转移到塞耶农场的另一栋建筑。翻新后的大楼将缓解拥挤，使BFS对来访的研究人员更具吸引力。按照计划，翻修后的空间将允许全年对研究地点进行评估，并最大限度地减少操作当地放置的自动化水收集和分析仪器的工作量。BFS将研究和指导作用整合到一个单一的协调努力中，解决地区性的、最终是全国性的环境问题，通常面向内陆水域的生态研究和长期监测计划。BFS的研究包括渔业管理和生物学、浮游动物和浮游植物的种群动态、底栖大型无脊椎动物的生态学、由淡水原生动物、细菌和微型后生动物组成的食物网中营养物质流动的特征，以及与陆地入侵物种管理和本地植物生态有关的研究。BFS对奥塞戈湖进行长期研究和生态监测，一些数据集始于100多年前。这些数据是独一无二的，因为它们包含学术、应用和教学部分。正在进行的项目扩大了监测工作，包括测试与管理活动有关的假设，包括小规模实验和全生态系统(例如，全湖)操作。作为应用科学，这些项目通过监测水质、控制养殖富营养化、管理水生有害物种和评估环境污染物来服务于社区。作为一种将学术界与地方、州和联邦合作伙伴联合起来，将生态学理论直接应用于水质管理的模式，BFS研究的影响超出了地方、区域和国家层面。BFS有着培训学生(准备上大学的高中生、本科生和研究生)生态和环境研究的强大传统。翻修预计将有助于扩大BFS的研究和技术培训计划，使更多的本科生能够掌握攻读研究生或专业培训所需的技术和研究技能，或获得相关的入门职位。

This award supports renovation of a two story, 2520 sq. ft. building to provide offices, a small reception area, a small conference room, and two large laboratory spaces at the SUNY College at Oneonta's Biological Field Station (BFS). The station, which dates from 1967, is located at Osego Lake, the headwaters for the Susquehanna River. The BFS consists of 5 parcels of land totaling over 2000 acres of land. The building is located one of these parcels, called the Thayer Farm, that was given to the BFS in 2001. The renovated building will mitigate severe overcrowding at the existing BFS main laboratory, and will allow separation of analytical research areas from field laboratories and program outreach. Pre-college and course-related undergraduate activities are concurrently moving from the main laboratory into another building on the Thayer Farm. The renovated building will make the BFS more attractive to visiting researchers by relieving crowding. As planned, the renovated spaces will allow assess to research sites on a year-round basis and minimize effort involved in operation of locally-placed, automated instruments for water collection and analysis. The BFS integrates research and instructional roles into a single coordinated effort addressing regional, and ultimately national, environmental problems, generally oriented towards ecological research and long-term monitoring programs on inland waters. Research at the BFS includes fisheries management and biology, population dynamics of zoo- and phytoplankton, ecology of benthic macroinvertebrates, characterization of nutrient flow through food webs consisting of freshwater protozoa, bacteria, and micrometazoa, as well as research related to terrestrial invasive species management and ecology of native plants. The BFS conducts long-term research and ecological monitoring of Otsego Lake, with some datasets that began over 100 years ago. These data are unique in that they have academic, applied, and teaching components. Ongoing projects have expanded monitoring efforts to include the testing of hypotheses relevant to management activities, including small experiments and whole-ecosystem (e.g., whole-lake) manipulations. As applied science, the projects serve the community by monitoring water quality, controlling cultural eutrophication, managing aquatic nuisance species and assessing environmental pollutants. As a model that unites academia with local, State and Federal partners to apply ecological theory directly to water quality management, the impact of BFS research extends beyond the local to regional and national levels. The BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate students) in ecological and environmental studies. The renovations are expected to help expand programs of research and technical training at the BFS, enabling more undergraduate students to master the technical and research skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions.