Research Improvements at the UNM Sevilleta Field Station

新墨西哥州的大学被授予赠款，以完成长期战略计划的第三阶段和最后阶段，以改善塞维利亚教育和研究设施（SERF）访问科学家，夏季REU学生，研究生和团体培训。该项目包括完成和装备设施中的外壳空间的组件，以提供生长室，计算机实验室和机构厨房。第一个项目包括购置几个不同大小和能力的环境室，以便能够对植物、昆虫、小动物和微生物进行受控环境实验。 第二个组成部分是一个多用途计算机研究和培训实验室，将允许从地理信息系统到分子进化和生态学的培训和数据分析。资金将用于计算机工作站，可视化设备和桌子，以提供这个多用途教室大小的计算机实验室。第三部分是为参加培训讲习班、研究会议、LTER工作组以及REU暑期学生正式和非正式聚会等活动的研究人员提供完整的厨房设施。该战略计划的前几个阶段已经完成，并导致建造了一个新的20，000平方英尺的设施，并通过新建和翻新现有建筑物的组合，将宾客人数从48人增加到82人。知识价值存在于为生物科学许多领域的研究人员开发现代化设施的目标中。更广泛的影响包括更多地获得学习机会和研究设施，为一个极其多样化的学生群体在新墨西哥州，并为其他访问科学家和他们的学生从新墨西哥州内外的机构。UNM是一个少数民族服务机构，Sevilleta Field Station和Sevilleta LTER计划致力于提高少数民族参与实地研究。有关Sevilleta教育和研究设施的更多信息，请访问：http://sevfs.unm.edu/

The University of New Mexico is awarded a grant to complete the third and final phase of a long term strategic plan to improve the Sevilleta Education and Research Facility (SERF) for visiting scientists, summer REU students, graduate students and group training. This project involves the components to complete and equip shell spaces in the facility to provide growth chambers, a computer laboratory, and an institutional kitchen. The first consists of the acquisition of several environmental chambers of various sizes and capabilities to enable controlled-environment experiments with plants, insects, small animals and microorganisms. The second component is a multi-purpose computer research and training laboratory that will allow training and data analysis ranging from GIS to molecular evolution and ecology. Funds will provide for computer workstations, visualization equipment, and tables to furnish this multi-use classroom-sized computer laboratory. The third component is to complete kitchen facilities available to researchers participating in events such as training workshops, research conferences, LTER working groups, and formal and informal gatherings of REU summer students. Previous phases of this strategic plan have been completed and resulted in the construction of a new 20,000 square-foot facility and an increase in guest capacity from 48 to 82 through a combination of new construction and renovation of existing buildings. The intellectual merit exists in the goal to develop modern facilities for researchers in many fields of biological science. The broader impacts include greater access to learning opportunities and research facilities for an extremely diverse student population at UNM, and for other visiting scientists and their students from institutions within and outside New Mexico. UNM is a minority serving institution, and the Sevilleta Field Station and Sevilleta LTER Program are dedicated to enhancing minority participation in field-based research.For more information about the Sevilleta Education and Research Facility please visit: http://sevfs.unm.edu/