The White Mountain Energy Project: Bringing 21st Century Energy Tech. to the Barcroft Field Station

该奖项支持为Barcroft站安装可靠且经济的电力供应和供暖系统，Barcroft站是构成白色山研究站（WMRS）的几个设施之一。 在冬季条件下需要备用和安全的电源，旨在取代2002年被雷击损坏并可能在不久的将来永久失效的埋地电力线。在该奖项的帮助下购买和安装的系统是传统和可再生电源的组合，应用于具有现代控制和节能措施的创新分布式发电系统。该项目是与位于欧文的加州大学的先进电力和能源项目合作计划的。巴克罗夫特站由位于3,800米处的佩斯实验室和一个更靠近巴克罗夫特山山顶3,975米处的较小天文台组成。Barcroft与其他WMRS设施一起，在美国大陆为环境科学家提供了一个3,000米的实验室垂直断面，相隔不到20公里。自1950年作为一个乡村高海拔生理学实验室建立以来，对WMRS作为生物野外站的研究和教育用途的需求急剧增加。超过150名研究人员和学生，其中一半来自加州大学系统之外，在典型的一年中使用WMRS的用户数量为6,000到9,000个。在过去的10年中，超过600出版物产生了在环境科学的工作在WMRS。空间站的研究范围不仅包括生物科学，还包括大气、地球、物理和空间科学。拟议的改进将使WMRS能够维护，运营和现代化共享研究和教育基础设施，以刺激和支持下一代仪器，多用户设施和其他共享研究和教育平台的开发和传播。WMRS主持工业合作伙伴的研究，促进学术界和私营部门之间的技术转让。该WMRS培训方案促进代表性不足的少数民族融入实地研究，除其他外，通过与波多黎各大学的新伙伴关系。WMRS还进行公共宣传，最近制作了一部长达一小时的纪录片，介绍在Barcroft进行的各种研究的价值。

This award supports installation of a reliable and economical electrical power supply and heating system for the Barcroft Station, one of several facilities that make up the White Mountain Research Station (WMRS). The power supply, needed for backup and safety during winter conditions, is designed to replace a buried power line that was damaged by a lightning strike in 2002 and may permanently fail in the near future. The systems to be purchased and installed with the aid of this award are a combination of traditional and renewable power supplies, applied in an innovative distributed generation system with modern controls and energy conservation measures. The project was planned in collaboration with the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine. The Barcroft Station consists of the Pace Laboratory located at 3,800 meters and a smaller observatory closer to the summit of Barcroft Mountain at 3,975 meters. Barcroft, together with the other WMRS facilities, is unique in the continental United States in providing environmental scientists with a 3,000 meter vertical transect of laboratories separated by less than 20km. The demand for research and educational uses of WMRS as a biological field station has increased dramatically since it was established as a rustic high altitude physiology laboratory in 1950. Over 150 individual researchers and students, half of whom come outside the University of California system, use the WMRS for 6,000 to 9,000 user nights in a typical year. In the last 10 years, over 600 publication have resulted from work in environmental science at WMRS. The station's research portfolio includes not only biological sciences, but also atmospheric, earth, physical and space sciences. The proposed improvements will permit WMRS to maintain, operate and modernize shared research and education infrastructure to stimulate and support the development and dissemination of next-generation instrumentation, multi-user facilities, and other shared research and education platforms. WMRS hosts research from industrial partners, which promotes the transfer of technology between academia and the private sector. The WMRS training programs promote integration of under-represented minorities in field research through, among others, a new partnership with University of Puerto Rico. WMRS also conducts public outreach, and recently produced an hour-long documentary film on the value of the kinds of research conducted at Barcroft.