FSML: Infrastructure for Molecular and Microbial Ecology at the Harvard Forest

哈佛森林获得了一笔赠款，用于升级、现代化和重新配置其约翰·G·Torrey分析实验室包括分子和微生物生物学研究能力。实验室的改进包括新的工作台，通风橱，冷藏设施，节能电气和机械控制，以及废水减少系统。经过彻底翻新的实验室将（1）为在哈佛森林大学进行研究的本科生和研究生、博士后研究人员以及来自世界各地数十个机构的教师提供新的机会;（2）加强由国家科学基金会和能源部支持的长期实验和监测计划，并通过哈佛森林作为国家生态观测网络（氖）东北部核心站点的作用而出现;（3）支持微生物和分子生物学，生态学和考古学的现有和新课程和野外营地;和（4）补充现有的致力于陆地和水生生物地球化学研究的实验室设施。自1907年以来，研究和教育一直是哈佛森林的使命，它是北美最古老和研究最深入的森林之一。从它的中心组成的3500英亩的土地，研究设施，和费舍尔博物馆位于北奎宾地区的马萨诸塞州，研究科学家，本科生，研究生，K-12学生和他们的老师，森林政策分析师和决策者一起探索的主题，从保护和环境变化的土地使用历史和方式，生物系统和人类系统相互作用改变地球。

The Harvard Forest is awarded a grant to upgrade, modernize, and reconfigure its John G. Torrey analytical laboratory to include capacity for research in molecular and microbial biology. Improvements to the laboratory include new benches, hoods, cold-storage facilities, energy-efficient electrical and mechanical controls, and a wastewater reduction system. The thoroughly renovated laboratoy will (1) provide new opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty from the dozens of institutions worldwide who conduct research at Harvard Forest; (2) enhance long-term experimental and monitoring programs supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, and emerging through the Harvard Forests role as the northeastern core site for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); (3) support current and new classes and field camps in microbial and molecular biology, ecology, and archaeology; and (4) complement existing laboratory facilities dedicated to the study of terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemistry.Since 1907, research and education have been the mission of the Harvard Forest, one of the oldest and most intensively studied forests in North America. From its center consisting of 3500 acres of land, research facilities, and the Fisher Museum located in the North Quabbin region of Massachusetts, research scientists, undergraduates, gradutate students, K-12 students and their teachers, and forest policy analysts and decision-makers together explore topics ranging from conservation and environmental change to land-use history and the ways in which physical, biological and human systems interact to change the Earth.