FSML: Winterization of Faculty and Student Residences at Mountain Lake Biological Station

山湖生物站（MLBS）成立于1929年由弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）作为一个内陆野外站的研究和教学在南阿巴拉契亚山脉。在过去的四分之一世纪，该站的研究计划已经发展成为一个重点，在进化，生态遗传学，人口和社区生态学，行为生理学和保护的重点领域为基础的人口研究。MLBS是一个全方位服务的住宅设施，提供全方位的科学，教学和通信支持，预计在一个现代化的外地站。该站平均每年有近7，000个用户日。典型的使用者通常与家人一起居住，一次几个星期到三个月。夏季最多可容纳100名居民，从幼儿到高中生，从课程和研究本科生到杰出的研究教师。社区的所有成员每天都在一起工作，吃饭和生活，将研究和指导结合在杰斐逊“学术村”的最真实意义上。 MLBS的运作收到了许多春季和秋季的使用请求，由于没有为研究人员、家庭和各种规模的访问团体提供过冬住房，这些请求无法满足。大学在12个月的工作人员和扩大服务方面的新投资将提供大部分必要的基础设施，使MLBS能够提供全年服务。一个仍然限制该站提供非夏季服务能力的关键因素是缺乏过冬住房。 该奖项的住房改善将有助于外地站的研究和教学使命。拟议的工作将改善MLBS的物理基础设施，使其能够在时间和目标上扩大其使命。团体使用空间将允许MLBS追求新的推广计划，并为访问类和团体服务。冬季化和改善的研究人员空间将使其能够吸引和留住越来越多的不同的PI。

Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) was founded in 1929 by the University of Virginia (UVA) as an inland field station for research and teaching in the Southern Appalachians. In the last quarter century the station's research program has developed a focus in field based population studies with emphases in evolution, ecological genetics, population and community ecology, behavioral physiology, and conservation. MLBS is a full service residential facility that offers the full range of scientific, instructional, and communications support expected at a modern field station. The station averages near 7,000 user days per year. Typical users are in residence, often with families, for a few weeks up to three months at a time. Summer-season capacity tops out at 100 residents ranging from small children to high school students to course and research undergraduates, to distinguished research faculty. All members of the community work, eat, and live together everyday, integrating research and mentorship in the truest sense of a Jeffersonian "academical village". MLBS operates receives many usage requests for the spring and fall that cannot be accommodated due to the absence of winterized housing for researchers, families and visiting groups of all sizes. New investments by the University in 12-month staff and expanded services will provide much of the infrastructure necessary to allow MLBS to provide year-round service. A critical factor still limiting the station's ability to provide non-summer services is a lack of winterized housing. Housing improvements from this award will contribute to both the research and instructional mission of the field station. The proposed work will improve the physical infrastructure of MLBS allowing it to broaden its mission in both time and target. Group use space will allow MLBS to pursue new outreach programs and serve visiting classes and groups. Winterized and improved researcher space will enable it to attract and retain more and more diverse PIs.