Developing a Strategic Plan for Santa Cruz Island Reserve

圣克鲁斯岛保护区（SCIR）是加州大学自然保护区系统39个野外观测站之一，位于加州圣巴巴拉以南约25英里的加州8个海峡群岛中最大的一个。圣克鲁斯岛保护区吸引了来自美国各地的研究人员研究许多广泛的问题，从人类学、岛屿生态学、保护生物学到对气候变化的生态反应。为了更好地服务于不断增长的SCIR支持者，同时使SCIR作为一种资源永续发展，该项目将为SCIR的研究、教育、推广项目和设施制定一个长期（5到10年）的战略计划。该战略计划将阐明研究和教育用途的科学愿景，并对支持该愿景所需的项目、设施需求和资源进行评估。战略计划的目标是通过一个由区域机构、非营利组织、学术和实地站伙伴组成的网络，加强海峡群岛研究所的研究和教育活动，以及海峡群岛地区研究、教育和外联活动的区域协调。规划过程涉及通过虚拟和面对面的讲习班与主要利益攸关方接触，以确定区域协调机会。该战略计划将指导设施和项目增强的优先级，并为加利福尼亚海峡群岛地区的研究人员、学生、教育工作者和自然资源管理者提供访问。环境科学硕士水平的学生参与这一过程将提供研究生水平的生物研究，环境管理和相关领域的培训。在拟议规划进程支持的讲习班上与区域协调员接触，是建立一个代表海峡群岛的区域协调节点的正式步骤，该节点可以更有效地参与更大规模的全球观测或气候变化研究工作。战略计划和规划进程将有助于正在进行的对话，并直接使对海峡群岛有管辖权的几个土地和野生动物管理机构受益。近年来，由于持续干旱条件和其他环境压力因素，这些机构对土地管理信息的需求显著增加。圣克鲁斯岛保护区的网址是：http://santacruz.nrs.ucsb.edu/This该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCIR) is 1 of 39 field stations in the University of California Natural Reserve System, and is located on the largest of California's eight Channel Islands, roughly 25 miles south of Santa Barbara, CA. SCIR attracts researchers from throughout the US to study many wide-ranging issues, from anthropology, island ecology, conservation biology to ecological responses to climate change. To best serve the growing SCIR constituency while perpetuating SCIR as a resource, this project will develop a long-term (five to ten year) strategic plan for SCIR research, education, outreach programs, and facilities. The strategic plan will articulate a scientific vision for research and educational use, and an evaluation of the programs, facility needs and resources necessary to support that vision. The goal of the strategic plan is to enhance research and education activities at SCIR as well as the regional coordination of research, education and outreach activities across the Channel Islands region through a network of regional agency, non-profit, academic and field station partners.The planning process involves engaging with key stakeholders through virtual and in-person workshops to identify regional coordination opportunities. The strategic plan will direct the prioritization of facilities and programs enhancements, and access for researchers, students, educators and natural resource managers in the California Channel Islands region. The involvement of an Environmental Science Masters level student in this process will provide graduate student level training in biological research, environmental management and related fields. Engaging with regional coordinators at workshops supported by the proposed planning process represents a formalized step in establishing a regionally coordinated node representing the Channel Islands that can more effectively participate in larger scale global observatory or climate change research efforts. The strategic plan and planning process will contribute to ongoing dialogue, and directly benefit several land and wildlife management agencies with jurisdiction over the Channel Islands, whose need for information to inform land management has increased markedly in recent years due to persistent drought conditions and other environmental stressors. The URL for the Santa Cruz Island Reserve is: http://santacruz.nrs.ucsb.edu/This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.