Laboratory Planning at Mountain Lake Biological Station

弗吉尼亚大学获得了一笔赠款，用于开发更新和重新利用刘易斯大厅的改造计划和概念计划，该大厅是山湖生物站（MLBS）的主要研究，教学和外展建筑。 MLBS成立于1929年由大学作为内陆生物研究和教学在南阿巴拉契亚（http：//www.mlbs.virginia.edu/）现场站。 在过去的40年里，该站的科学研究集中在基于实地的人口研究，重点是进化，遗传学，生态遗传学，人口和社区生态学，行为生理学和保护。 MLBS是一个全方位服务的住宅设施，提供了一个现代化的外地站预期的科学，教学和后勤支持的完整范围。 刘易斯厅建于1939年，自那以后就没有翻修过。 虽然该建筑物的结构合理，并值得保存的历史和美学的原因，其基本的内部布局，公用事业基础设施，和技术设施，支持站的核心任务已经退化和过时。 为期一年的规划项目将产生一个程序文件，概述功能和教师的需要，在翻新刘易斯大厅。 该项目分为四个阶段：第一阶段。收集所有现场站利益相关者的投入（MLBS当前和未来潜在的研究，教员和推广人群）;第2阶段。使国家外地台站主任社区参与进来（例如：组织生物野外站）在一个专业领导的讲习班，并访问姐妹野外站;第3阶段。与校园内的规划专业人员合作，生成专业的规划文件。来自全国各地和世界各地的29个生物研究项目将山湖称为家园。 目前有51名研究生依靠MLBS进行博士研究。 在过去五年中，共开办了20个暑期课程。 在过去一年中，会议和团体使用该站的次数翻了一番，达到1 000多个用户日。 该项目将代表在提供新的研究，教学和推广服务方面迈出的巨大一步。 规划工作的核心是建立公共外联设施。 MLBS将很快能够为公众、K-12、社区大学和其他地区人口提供资源和服务。 该站的教学和研究任务也将得到加强，有利于大学为基础的研究计划，教师从小型学院和其他研究小组，研究生和本科生培训计划，UVA夏季课程，以及我们越来越多的外部访问组，实地考察和会议。 我们相信，这一规划项目所带来的改善将增加山湖的使用和多样性。

The University of Virginia is awarded a grant to develop a renovation program and concept plan for updating and repurposing Lewis Hall, the primary research, teaching, and outreach building at the Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS). MLBS was founded in 1929 by the University as an inland biological field station for research and teaching in the Southern Appalachians (http://www.mlbs.virginia.edu/). In the last 40 years the Station's scientific research has focused on field based population studies with emphases in evolution, genetics, ecological genetics, population and community ecology, behavioral physiology, and conservation. MLBS is a full service residential facility that offers the complete range of scientific, instructional, and logistical support expected at a modern field station. Lewis Hall was constructed in 1939 and has not been renovated since. While the building is structurally sound and worth preserving for historical and aesthetic reasons, its basic internal layout, utility infrastructure, and technical facilities supporting the Station's core missions have degraded and are out of date. The one-year planning project will produce a program document outlining function and faculty needs in a refurbished Lewis Hall. The project has four phases: Phase #1. Collecting input from all field station stakeholders (MLBS current and potential future researches, instructors and outreach populations); Phase #2. Engaging the national field station directors' community (eg. Organization of Biological Field Stations) in a professionally lead workshop, and visiting sister field stations; Phase #3. Working with planning professionals on campus to generate a professional planning document.Twenty-nine biological research programs from across the country and around the world call Mountain Lake home. Fifty-one graduate students currently rely on MLBS for their doctoral work. Twenty summer courses have been offered in the past five years. Conference and group use of the Station has doubled to over 1,000 user-days in the past year. This project will represent a huge step forward in providing new research, instructional, and outreach services. Central to the planning effort will be the creation of public outreach facilities. MLBS will soon be able to provide resources and services to the general public, K-12, community college, and other regional populations. The teaching and research missions of the Station will also be enhanced, benefiting university-based research programs, faculty from small colleges and other research groups, graduate and undergraduate training programs, UVA Summer Session courses, and our increasing number of external visiting groups, fieldtrips, and conferences. We are confident the improvements resulting from this planning project will increase use and diversity at Mountain Lake.