An Experimental Mescosm Facility at the Central Michigan University Biological Station

中密歇根大学获得赠款，以翻新前船屋，并安装一系列12个中生态系统坦克，这将使CMU教师，学生和访问调查员在CUM生物站（http：//www.cst.cmich.edu/CMUBS/）进行控制和复制的生态实验对密歇根湖的浮游和底栖生态系统以及海滩和湿地，并解决处理这些栖息地对多种压力的反应的关键生态问题（例如，气候变化、养分富集和引进非本地物种）。拟议的翻修将直接影响中密歇根大学至少10名教职员工的研究，以及其他机构的合作者和CMUBS的访客。30多年来，中密歇根大学在密歇根湖北方的海狸岛上建立了一个生物站（CMUBS）。直到最近，CMUBS的主要研究重点一直是岛上各种各样的未受干扰的陆地生态系统，该站还支持一个活跃的夏季本科生和研究生教育计划。这些改进将支持大学在淡水生物学和相关学科（例如，地球化学，遥感和地理信息系统）以及密歇根州和美国中西部和东北部的湖泊的重要性。拟议的翻新将大大提高教师，研究生和游客的能力CMUBS进行各种水生和湿地生物的研究，并解决有关的关键主题，如非土著物种，濒危物种，湖泊水平周期和全球气候变化的生态问题。CMUBS的新设施将提供额外的机会，让感兴趣的学生参与STEM学习，并鼓励他们在STEM相关研究和研究生学习方面取得进展。它将通过许多CMU项目进一步提高代表性不足和第一代大学生的学术成功，包括向上跳跃，齿轮，罗纳德E。McNair学士学位成就计划，NSF的URM：“在CMU的研究！".中尺度生态系统设施将为跨学科方法和与其他机构的合作提供更多的机会。这些新设施将大大改善专门用于了解五大湖的总体科学基础设施，从而提高我们对世界上最重要的淡水系统之一的了解以及保护和管理这一系统的能力。该设施的用户将把研究结果和观点纳入他们经常提供的各种大学课程和K-12演示文稿中，研究项目和基本理念将通过主要文献，评论/概述，研讨会，专题讨论会和国际范围内的会议出版物广泛传播。

The Central Michigan University is awarded a grant to renovate a former boat house and install a series of 12 mesocosm tanks that will allow CMU faculty, students, and visiting investigators at the CUM Biological Station (http://www.cst.cmich.edu/CMUBS/) to conduct controlled and replicated ecological experiments on the pelagic and benthic ecosystems of Lake Michigan as well as beaches and wetlands and to address key ecological questions dealing with the response of these habitats to multiple stressors (e.g., climate change, nutrient enrichment and introduction of non-indigenous species). The proposed renovations will directly impact the research of at least ten faculty members at Central Michigan University, as well as collaborators from other institutions and visitors to CMUBS. For more than 30 years Central Michigan University has operated a Biological Station (CMUBS) on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Until recently the primary focus of research at CMUBS has been on the Island's diverse array of undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems, and the station has also supported an active summer undergraduate and graduate education program. The improvements will support the University's growing strength in freshwater biology and related disciplines (e.g., geochemistry, remote sensing and GIS) as well as the importance of the lakes to Michigan and the mid-western and north-eastern US. The proposed renovations will significantly enhance the ability of faculty, graduate students and visitors to CMUBS to conduct research on a variety of aquatic and wetland organisms and to address ecological questions related to key topics such as non-indigenous species, endangered species, lake level cycles and global climate change. The new facility at CMUBS will provide additional opportunities to engage interested students in STEM learning and encourage their progress toward STEM-related research and graduate study. It will further enhance the academic success of underrepresented and first-generation college students through many CMU programs including Upward Bound, GEAR UP, Ronald E. McNair Baccalaureate Achievement Program, NSF's URM: "BUMP Into Research at CMU!". The mesocosm facilities will provide enhanced opportunities for interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations with other institutions. The new facilities will significantly improve the overall scientific infrastructure dedicated to understanding the Great Lakes, and hence augment our understanding of, and ability to protect and manage, one of the most important freshwater systems in the world. Users of the facility will integrate research findings and perspectives into the diverse array of university courses and K-12 presentations that they routinely offer, and the research projects and underlying philosophy will be broadly disseminated through publications in the primary literature, reviews/overviews, seminars, symposia and meetings on an international scale.