FSML: Laboratory Equipment Upgrade for Centre ValBio Rainforest Field Madagascar, Madagascar

ValBio中心是马达加斯加唯一的现代化野外观测站。通过升级技术和研究设备来提高研究能力和培训，反过来将大大增加研究的数量和类型、研究人员的数量，并提高研究项目的效率、质量和整合。仅是微型CT扫描仪就可以实现小型脊椎动物三维形态的开创性方法，并通过高速互联网增强数据交换能力，并通过视听更新直接与国际社会联系，这也将增加科学影响。获得现代实验室设备和地理信息系统功能将大大增加ValBio中心的能力，以提高中心进行的研究的数量和质量，并允许与其他科学家分享生物多样性、生态和制图数据，从而扩大范围和影响。长期监测可能会对我们了解马达加斯加热带雨林生态系统随时间的变化产生重大影响。ValBio中心吸引了来自不同背景和经验的人，包括国际研究人员、教授和学生。设备的改进将使更多的研究人员能够从事与生物学和保护有关的更多样化的主题，例如培训计划能够将实验室处理纳入他们的现场协议，以便学生能够获得应用和整合研究项目的完整培训。在同一地点进行基于现场和实验室的研究将对来自不同分支学科的学生和研究人员具有吸引力，因此增加和整合研究将最终产生更高质量的项目。例如，参加石溪大学马达加斯加留学项目的本科生将能够进行实地研究，了解从原始实地数据到实验室数据，再到分析，再到发表的过程，并受到启发去从事和完成科学研究。马达加斯加的研究生也是ValBio中心研究和培训的不可或缺的参与者，27年的能力建设激励了许多马达加斯加人从事生物多样性的职业，这些设施的改进将增加参与现代研究的马达加斯加人的数量，并确保他们对国际科学界的贡献。欲了解更多关于ValBio中心现场站的信息，请访问：http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/centre-valbio/

Centre ValBio is the only modern field station in all of Madagascar. Increasing research capacity and training through upgrades to technology and research equipment will in turn dramatically increase the amount and types of research, the number of researchers, and improve the efficiency, quality, and integration of research projects. The micro CT scanner alone will enable a path breaking method of looking at morphology of small vertebrates in three dimensions and enhancing capabilities to exchange data via high speed internet and directly connect to the international community through audiovisual updates will also increase the scientific impact. This acquisition of modern laboratory equipment and GIS capabilities will greatly add to Centre ValBio's ability to increase the quantity and quality of research conducted at the center and allows sharing the biodiversity, ecological, and mapping data with other scientists which broadens both scope and influence. The long term monitoring possible will have a substantial impact on our understanding of changes in Madagascar's tropical rainforest ecosystem over time.Centre ValBio engages people from a variety of backgrounds and experience including international researchers, professors and students. The equipment improvements will allow more researchers to work on more varied topics pertaining to biology and conservation, such as training programs being able to incorporate laboratory processing to their field protocols so that students can get a complete training of the application and integration of research projects. Bridging field and laboratory based research in the same location will be attractive for both students and researchers from a diversity of subdisciplines thus increasing and integrating research will ultimately produce higher quality projects. For example, undergraduates participating in Stony Brook University's Study Abroad in Madagascar program will be able to conduct research in the field, understand the process of going from raw field data, to laboratory data, to analysis, to publication, and be inspired to undertake and accomplish scientific research. Malagasy graduate students are also integral participants in Centre ValBio research and training and 27 years of capacity building has inspired many Malagasy to follow biodiversity careers, and these facility improvements will increase the number of Malagasy involved in modern research and assure their contribution to the international scientific community.For more information about Centre ValBio Field Station please visit: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/centre-valbio/