Connecting RMBL to the Larger World

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）获得了一笔赠款，以加强其研究和教育计划，安装一套无线电，以增加带宽的电台。 作为一个501 c3组织，RMBL推进了对自然的深刻科学理解，促进了对地球的知情管理。 RMBL每年接待来自100多个机构的200名学生研究人员和科学家，提供受保护的研究地点和研究设施，作为实地研究地点与其所在机构之间的桥梁。 RMBL的研究为一系列生态和进化问题提供了重要的见解，包括进化，河流生态学，气候变化，人口动态，行为生态学和互惠。 此外，RMBL的研究为河流、水和空气质量以及气候变化的管理政策提供了信息。这笔赠款将支付安装一系列无线电，将带来带宽的电台。 目前，RMBL通过Qwest运营的系统上的光纤电缆获得互联网。 此电缆提供T1线路，容量为1.5 Mbps。 鉴于RMBL接待了大量科学家和学生，这一带宽严重不足。 通过安装无线电将电台连接到当地服务提供商的Optical Carrier- 3互联网连接，与替代解决方案相比，电台将能够在成本效益的基础上大幅增加带宽。该项目将提高RMBL记录和了解不断变化的世界的能力。 目前，科学家收集的信息中只有一小部分进入公共领域。 通过增加空间站的带宽，RMBL将能够更有效地支持学生和科学家在空间站的工作，并增加从空间站到更大世界的信息流，包括来自RMBL自动传感器的信息和科学家收集的数据。这笔赠款将用于支持教育活动。 本科生和研究生都直接与研究科学家合作，包括通过NSF的本科生研究经验计划资助的学生。 增加的带宽将帮助学生为他们的研究项目做背景工作，并支持教他们如何使他们的数据公开。有关RMBL的更多信息，请访问网站http://www.rmbl.org/。

The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) is awarded a grant to enhance its research and education programs installing a set of radios to bring increased bandwidth to the station. A 501c3 organization, RMBL advances the deep scientific understanding of nature that promotes informed stewardship of the Earth. Each year RMBL hosts 200 student researchers and scientists from 100+ institutions, providing access to protected research sites and the research facilities needed to serve as a bridge between field sites and their home institutions. Research at RMBL has provided critical insights into a range of ecological and evolutionary questions, including evolution, stream ecology, climate change, population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and mutualisms. Additionally, research at RMBL has informed policy on management of streams, water and air quality, and climate change. This grant will pay for installation of a series of radios that will bring bandwidth to the station. Currently RMBL obtains internet through a fiberoptic cable on a system operated by Qwest. This cable provides a T1 line, with a capacity of 1.5 Mbps. Given the large number of scientists and students hosted at RMBL, this bandwidth is woefully inadequate. By installing radios linking the station to a local service provider's Optical Carrier- 3 Internet Connection, the station will be able to substantially increase bandwidth on a cost effective basis when compared to alternate solutions.This project will increase RMBL's ability to document and understand a changing world. Currently only a small percentage of the information collected by scientists makes it into the public domain. By increasing bandwidth to the station, RMBL will be able to more effectively support the students and scientists work at the station, as well as increase the flow of information from the station to the larger world, including information from RMBL's automated sensors and data collected by scientists. This grant will support education activities. Both undergraduate and graduate students work directly with research scientists, including students funded through NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Increased bandwidth will help students do background work for their research projects, as well as support teaching them how to make their data publicly available. For more information about RMBL, please visit the website at http://www.rmbl.org/.