Increasing laboratory capacity at El Verde Field Station, University of Puerto Rico

波多黎各大学彼德拉斯校区获得了一笔赠款，用于增加El Verde野外站的实验室能力。在美国管辖下唯一的新热带雨林中，埃尔韦德一直是科学研究和培训的重要地点。野外观测站位于波多黎各的El Yunque国家森林，这是一个实验森林，一个生物圈保护区，一个波多黎各大学的研究地点，也是Luquillo长期生态研究计划的重点。涵盖2009-2019年期间的总体规划强调了改善可用空间并为该站的研究创造新的工作区域的必要性。访问研究人员缺乏工作空间一直是限制El Verde正在进行的研究项目和潜在的新项目的主要因素。该站目前最多可容纳51名访客，只有15个工作站，其中一些工作站用于某些类型的研究用途有限。该奖项将通过为访问科学家建造一个新的实验室来解决El Verde紧迫的空间问题。新的1000平方米。ft研究大楼将容纳10个新的高质量工作站。每个工作站将包括工作台空间，可用于计算机或显微镜工作，或样品处理。结合正在进行的改善现有空间的努力，已制订了一项计划，增加30个工作站的研究空间。这将提供足够的研究空间，以容纳正在进行的项目，并促进该站的新研究。REU学生（每年夏天10-12岁）现在将有指定的工作区域，减少对导师寻找工作场所的依赖。30多年来，El Verde Field Station一直为各种用户提供服务。自20世纪90年代初以来，该站一直保持着每年超过2000天的访客记录。来自波多黎各、美国大陆和其他国家的50多个机构的本科生和研究生、技术人员和教师使用该野外站作为他们研究热带雨林生态系统的业务基地。自1988年成立以来，Luquillo LTER遗址已将El Verde作为其主要遗址之一。我们的REU热带生态学项目每年夏天都会招收波多黎各人和其他少数民族学生，他们中的许多人在El Verde学期结束后继续读研究生。El Verde野外观测站的网站可在http://evfs.ites.upr.edu/找到。

The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, is awarded a grant to increase the laboratory capacity of El Verde Field Station. El Verde has been a vital location for scientific research and training in the only neotropical rain forest under the jurisdiction of the United States. The field station is located in El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, which is an Experimental Forest, a Biosphere Reserve, a research site for the University of Puerto Rico, and the focus of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. A master plan covering the period 2009-2019 highlights the need to improve available spaces and create new work areas for research at the station. Lack of workspace for visiting researchers has been a major factor limiting ongoing research projects and potential new ones at El Verde. The station currently has a maximum housing capacity of 51 visitors and only 15 work stations, some of limited use for some types of research. The award will solve the pressing space problem at El Verde by building a new laboratory for visiting scientists. The new 1,000 sq. ft. research building will house 10 new high-quality work stations. Each station will consist of bench space that can be used for computer or microscope work, or sample processing. In combination with ongoing efforts to improve available space, a plan to increase research space availability for 30 work stations has been developed. This will provide enough research space to accommodate ongoing projects and facilitate new research at the station. REU students (from 10-12 every summer) will now have designated work areas and less dependenc on mentors to find places to work. El Verde Field Station has been serving a variety of users for more than 30 years. Since the early 1990s the station has maintained a visitor record of over 2000 days in residence a year. Undergraduate and graduate students, technicians and faculty from more than 50 institutions in Puerto Rico, mainland United States, and other countries use the field station as their base of operations to study tropical rain forest ecosystems. The Luquillo LTER site has made El Verde one of its main sites since its foundation in 1988. Our REU site program in tropical ecology has a record of enrolling Puerto Ricans and other minority students every summer, many of them continue to graduate school after their term at El Verde. El Verde Field Station web site can be found at http://evfs.ites.upr.edu/.