Sustainable Infrastructure for the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Upper Research Site

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该提案寻求资金，以更新生物野外站，取代实验室大楼位于上研究网站的纽约州立大学奥塔？生物野外站。 上研究站位于纽约州的莫伊池塘附近，是一个相对偏远的研究区，包括最古老的野外站？它拥有近1000公顷的土地。 该网站已被用于研究的初级生产力在老领域正在进行的演替，群落生态学的嗜食蚊，吸虫和软体动物的生命周期和人口动态，渔业生态学，入侵物种的影响，营养级联与水质管理和土地使用，以及其他主题。 外地站有支持女学生研究培训的记录，妇女占外地站的52%？建议更换的结构是一个原始的木框架野外实验室，约5米x12米。 升级到更现代化的实验室空间将使研究人员能够进行更复杂的研究，并使研究人员能够建立鸟类学，寄生虫学，地貌学，植物学和种群生态学方面的长期计划项目。 将受益于翻新设施的研究项目的例子包括：对莫伊池塘渔业改变所产生的动态营养级联的研究;对蚊子种群对该地点性质变化的反应的研究（例如海狸活动的波动）;比较上部研究地点酸性土壤上林地的养分径流与更基本的主要农业土地覆盖物的径流土壤的Thayer农场部分的野外站;蠕虫寄生虫的鱼类，包括C的基因流的研究。cornutum和N.鸟类学研究，包括鸟类如何和为什么唱歌，鸟类交流的互动性质，繁殖行为，鸟类种群的长期研究，以及人类干扰对雀形目鸟类繁殖成功的影响研究;研究跨生物群落的水生碳地球化学和代谢。除了提供研究基础设施外，这次翻修将提供一个供本科生和研究生研究人员使用的资源。 它将有助于培养研究生在一个新的科学硕士湖泊管理计划。 翻新将使其有可能扩展到上研究网站，大学？在环境研究中相对较新的跨学科专业的大学预科实地经验和顶点经验的计划。 翻新后的实验室将在萨斯奎汉纳河上游流域的长期生态研究中发挥作用。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to renovate biological field station by replacing a laboratory building located on the Upper Research Site of SUNY-Oneonta?s Biological Field Station. The Upper Research Site is located near Moe Pond in New York State and is a relatively remote research area comprising the oldest of the field station?s nearly 1000-ha holdings. The site has been used for studies on primary productivity in old fields undergoing succession, community ecology of anthropophilous mosquitoes, trematode and mollusk life cycles and population dynamics, fisheries ecology, impacts of invasive species, trophic cascades associated with water quality management and land use, and other topics. The field station has a record of supporting research training for women students with women making up 52% of the field station?s student interns over the past four decades.The structure proposed for replacement is a primitive wood-frame field laboratory, about 5m x 12m. The upgrade to more modern laboratory space will provide researchers with the ability to conduct more sophisticated studies and will allow researchers to establish long-planned projects in ornithology, parasitology, geomorphology, botany, and population ecology. Examples of research projects that would benefit from the renovated facility include: studies of dynamic trophic cascades resulting from alterations in the fisheries in Moe Pond; research on the response of mosquito populations to changes in the nature of the site (e.g. fluctuations in beaver activity); comparison of nutrient runoff from forested lands on acid soils at the Upper Research Site with runoff from primarily agricultural land cover on the more basic soils of the Thayer Farm section of the field station; research on helminth parasites of fishes including a study of the gene flow of C. cornutum and N. rutili in their host populations; Ornithological research including how and why birds sing, the interactive nature of avian communication, breeding behavior, long-term studies of the avian population, and research on the impact of human disturbance on passerine reproductive success; research on cross-biome aquatic carbon biogeochemistry and metabolism.In addition to providing infrastructure for research, the renovation will provide a resource that will be used by undergraduate and graduate student researchers. It will contribute to the training of graduate students in a new Master of Science in Lake Management program. The renovation will make it possible to extend to the Upper Research Site, the university?s programs of pre-college field experiences and of capstone experiences in the relatively new interdisciplinary major in Environmental Studies. The refurbished laboratory will play a role in long-term ecological studies of the watershed of the upper reaches of the Susquehanna River.