Building research collaboration for the future: enhancement of the UOBS Aquatic Research Park

俄克拉荷马大学获得了一笔赠款，用于对UO生物站水上研究公园进行现代化改造、扩建和翻新，包括新的建设和现有设施的改进。空间站位于俄克拉何马州马歇尔县，德克萨斯马湖北岸，德克萨斯州和俄克拉何马州交界处的雷德河和瓦希托河的一个大型(8.8万英亩)蓄水池。UOBS包括一个占地30英亩的维护园区，以及从美国陆军工程兵团(USACE)租赁的额外自然区域(300英亩)，并指定为生态研究区。与USACE管理的蓄水池接壤的土地上的联邦土地使用法规禁止住宅、商业或工业开发。该站成立于1949年，自成立以来，一直是数千万美元外部资金、1200多份出版物、近200篇学位论文和1000多篇本科生和高中生研究论文的核心。这笔赠款带来的改进将把这一实验研究设施提升为国家和国际公认的水生生态实验场所，促进变革性研究、令人兴奋的教育体验，并继续作为未来训练有素的研究人员和院士的基地。具体的改进包括一个温室，其中包括一个用于样品处理的现场实验室和一个受控环境实验微宇宙/中微体设施。对邻近的美国陆军工程师核心设施的现有设施进行修改和改进，包括在混凝土垫板上放置现有的无水箱，为每个溪流和坦克设施安装管道和排水，并为每个设施增加遮阳框。改进将使UOBS通过提供一流的水生中温带实验设施来服务于更广泛的地区、国家和国际研究社区。研究项目的这种增长将伴随着常驻和客座/访问研究人员之间的互动增加，增强合作研究项目的可能性增加，以及暴露在知识和科学氛围中对访问学校群体的潜在影响。常驻教职员工积极参与为UOBS暑期班学生、预科(高中)暑期学院学生和其他团体(如俄克拉荷马大学东南部的美国原住民研究数学和科学夏令营)进行演讲或安排实验室展示。向上跳跃，和奇卡索国家青年保护团。这些访问教育小组将与正在进行的研究项目结合使用新设施(如实验温室)，或作为单独的集体练习，就像以前使用UOBS现有设施一样。有关UO生物站和该项目的更多信息，请访问该站的网站：http://www.ou.edu/uobs/.

The University of Oklahoma is awarded a grant to modernize, expand, and refurbish the UO Biological Station Aquatic Research Park with both new construction and existing facilities improvements. The station is located in Marshall County, Oklahoma on the north shore of Lake Texoma, a large (88,000 acre) impoundment of the Red and Washita Rivers on the Oklahoma-Texas border. UOBS includes a maintained campus of 30 acres, with an additional natural area (300 acres) leased from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and designated as an Ecological Research Area. Federal land-use regulations on lands bordering USACE managed impoundments preclude residential, commercial, or industrial development. The Station was established in 1949 and has been central to tens of millions of dollars in external funding, over 1,200 publications, nearly 200 dissertations and theses, and over 1,000 undergraduate and high school student research papers since its inception. The improvements enabled by this grant will elevate this experimental research facility to a nationally and internationally recognized experimental aquatic ecology locus that fosters transformative research, exciting educational experiences, and continues to serve as a base for future generations of well trained researchers and academicians. The specific improvements include a greenhouse containing both a field lab for sample processing and a controlled-environment experimental microcosm/mesocosm facility. Modifications and improvements to existing facilities on adjacent US Army Core of Engineers property includes placing existing limno-tanks on concrete pads, installing plumbing and drainage for each stream and tank facility, and adding shade frames to each facility.The improvements will allow UOBS to serve the broader regional, national, and international research community by providing first-rate experimental aquatic mesocosm facilities. This growth in the research program will be accompanied by increased interactions between resident and guest/visiting researchers, increased probability for enhanced collaborative research projects, and a boost to the potential impact of exposure to an intellectual and scientific atmosphere on visiting school groups. Resident faculty and staff are actively involved in presenting talks or arranging lab displays for UOBS summer session students, pre-collegiate (high school) summer academy students, and other groups such as the Native American Studies Math and Science Camp, Southeastern Oklahoma St. Univ. Upward Bound, and the Chickasaw Nation Youth Conservation Corps. These visiting educational groups will make use of the new facilities (e.g., experimental greenhouse) either in conjunction with on-going research projects, or as stand-alone group exercises, as has been the case with previous access to current UOBS facilities. For further information about the UO Biological Station and this project please visit the station's website at http://www.ou.edu/uobs/.