Developing a Collaborative and Strategic Vision for Mohonk Preserve's Daniel Smiley Research Center

莫洪克保护区是纽约州最大的非营利性自然保护区，提供户外娱乐和教育活动。保护区位于纽约市西北90英里处，位于哈德逊河流域中部的沙万贡山脊上，为区域和国际研究人员、教育工作者、学生和娱乐爱好者提供服务。保护区的研究收藏包括一个独特的材料机构，涵盖自然和文化历史，地质学，考古学，气候学，生态学和哈德逊山谷的土地使用历史。长期数据集包括北美最广泛的自然历史（物候学），天气和湖泊采样记录之一。Mohonk Preserve与卡里研究所和纽约州立大学新帕尔茨分校合作，将领导Mohonk Preserve的丹尼尔Smiley研究中心的社区战略愿景过程，以促进科学，教育和推广。规划过程将吸引区域和国际科学家，学生和公民参加四个研讨会，探索保护区可以建立在其长期数据监测和收集计划的成功基础上的想法和方法，以更好地服务于不断扩大和更多样化的研究和教育利益相关者网络。 这一过程将促进新的合作，综合，课程，资源共享和基础设施投资，与莫洪克保护区和合作机构的使命和战略目标保持一致。由此产生的研究活动的扩展将有利于所有学术水平的研究人员，扩大保护区的丹尼尔斯迈利研究中心的范围从本地到区域和全球，为K-12和本科生，社区休闲主义者和公民科学家提供新的学习机会，并增加外展访问休闲主义者。

Mohonk Preserve is New York State's largest non-profit nature preserve with outdoor recreational and educational activities. Located 90 miles northwest of New York City on the Shawangunk Ridge in the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Preserve serves a regional and international set of researchers, educators, students, and recreationalists. The Preserve's research collection includes a unique body of materials spanning natural and cultural history, geology, archaeology, climatology, ecology, and land-use history in the Hudson Valley. Long-term datasets comprise one of the most extensive natural history (phenology), weather, and lake sampling records in North America.Mohonk Preserve, in partnership with The Cary Institute and the State University of New York at New Paltz, will lead a community strategic visioning process for Mohonk Preserve's Daniel Smiley Research Center for the benefit of science, education, and outreach. The planning process will draw regional as well as international scientists, students, and citizens to participate in four workshops to explore ideas and methods by which the Preserve can build on the successes of its long-term data monitoring and collecting program to better serve an ever-expanding and more diverse network of research and educational stakeholders. This process will catalyze new collaborations, syntheses, curricula, sharing of resources, and infrastructure investments in alignment with mission and strategic goals of Mohonk Preserve and partner institutions. The resulting expansion of research activities will benefit researchers of all academic levels, extend the scope of the Preserve's Daniel Smiley Research Center from local to regional and global, provide new learning opportunities for K-12 and undergraduate students, community recreationists, and citizen scientists, and increase outreach to visiting recreationalists.