Student Research and Teaching Improvements at the Sevilleta Field Station

新墨西哥州大学塞维利亚野外站获得一笔赠款，用于购买主要设备，以支持生态生理学和分子生态学的教学和研究工作，包括光合作用实地分析便携式系统和分子微生物生态学所需的许多设备。 该奖项将对我们的夏季REU计划以及采用生理学和分子遗传学方法进行生态学研究的夏季课程产生重大影响。 这将使2010年夏季首次开设微生物生态学夏季课程成为可能。塞维利亚野外站即将结束一项为期五年的项目开发计划，其中包括扩大本科生和研究生研究，以及每年增加20个课程周的大学水平教学。 野外观测站位于塞维利亚国家野生动物保护区，距离阿尔伯克基（50万人口的城市）和新墨西哥州大学不到一个小时，距离索科罗和新墨西哥州理工学院不到半小时，距离几个小型农村社区只有几分钟的路程，这些社区拥有巨大的社会，种族和经济多样性。 因此，该站为UNM学生提供教育和推广机会;来自阿尔伯克基和周边社区的K-12学生，教师和公民;以及来自新墨西哥州内外机构的访问科学家。 UNM是一个少数民族服务机构，Sevilleta Field Station和Sevilleta LTER计划致力于提高少数民族参与实地研究。 该奖项将有助于在塞维利亚外地站的中等规模，国家的最先进的教学和研究计划。

The University of New Mexico Sevilleta Field Station is awarded a grant for the acquisition of major equipment items in support of teaching and research efforts in ecophysiology and molecular ecology, including a portable system for field analysis of photosynthesis and numerous equipment items required for molecular microbial ecology. The award will have a major impact on our summer REU program as well as summer courses that employ physiological and molecular-genetic approaches to ecology. It will enable the first offering of a summer course in microbial ecology during the summer of 2010. The Sevilleta Field Station is nearing the end of a five-year plan of program development that includes expansion of undergraduate and graduate research and the addition of 20 course-weeks per year of college-level teaching. The Field Station is located at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, less than an hour from Albuquerque (city of 500,000) and the University of New Mexico, less than a half hour from Socorro and New Mexico Tech, and minutes from several small rural communities encompassing tremendous social, ethnic and economic diversity. The station therefore provides access to educational and outreach opportunities for UNM students; K-12 students, teachers and citizens from Albuquerque and surrounding communities; and visiting scientists from institutions within and outside New Mexico. UNM is a minority serving institution, and the Sevilleta Field Station and Sevilleta LTER Program are dedicated to enhancing minority participation in field-based research. This award will contribute to a moderately sized, state-of-the-art teaching and research program at the Sevilleta Field Station.