Lassen Field Station Planning

该奖项将支持新的拉森野外站(LFS)的战略规划，这是拉森火山国家公园和加州大学戴维斯分校之间的合作伙伴关系，也是加州大学自然保护区系统的最新成员。LFS的影响可能超出许多生物野外观测站的典型影响。LFS支持的大部分研究都解决了美国西部的一个紧迫研究需求：加州的森林管理和野火，该地区近年来多次被野火摧毁。LFS还具有无与伦比的潜力，可以作为研究火山活动、火山景观及其相关物种和生态系统的地点。该公园每年接待游客超过50万人次。规划过程的一个明确目标是确定课程内容和研究人员产生的知识都可以通过研究人员与公众之间的直接互动或通过研究人员与公园工作人员和志愿者的接触而产生的互动向乐于接受的公众传播的方式。加利福尼亚州的东北角是一个以农村为主的地区，几乎没有经济引擎；该地区的公立和特许学校已经将一些以公园为基础的科学纳入了他们的课程。规划过程将确定LFS伙伴关系的研究人员和教师如何通过为K-12学生提供体验式学习来丰富当地社区。资金将用于召开一系列规划会议，以便1)为外地站制定五至十年的战略远景，2)确定研究设施的需求并确定其优先次序，3)为外地站确定其他机构和非政府组织合作伙伴的优先次序并使其参与进来。一项涵盖未来五到十年的战略规划工作将确立目标并阐明限制因素，以集中公园和加州大学戴维斯分校自然保护区工作人员的努力，以增加LFS的研究和教学。欲了解更多有关拉森野战站的信息，请访问https://naturalreserves.ucdavis.edu/lassen-volcanic-national-park-partnership.This奖，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智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support strategic planning for the new Lassen Field Station (LFS), a partnership between the Lassen Volcanic National Park and the University of California, Davis, and the newest member of the University of California Natural Reserve System. LFS has potential for impact beyond that typical of many biological field stations. Much of the research enabled by LFS addresses a pressing research need in the western United States: forest management and wildfire, in a region of California that has been repeatedly decimated by wildfires in recent years. LFS also has unparalleled potential as a site for research on volcanism, volcanic landscapes and their associated species and ecosystems. The Park receives more than 500,000 visitors per year. An explicit goal of the planning process is to identify means by which both curriculum content and knowledge generated by researchers can be disseminated to this receptive public, either through direct researcher-to-public interactions, or interactions mediated through researcher contact with Park staff and volunteers. The northeast corner of California is a largely rural area with few economic engines; public and charter schools in the area already embed some Park-based science into their curricula. The planning process will identify ways that researchers and instructors from the LFS partnership can enrich local communities with experiential learning for their K-12 students. Funds will be used to convene a series of planning meetings to 1) create a five to ten-year strategic vision for the field station, 2) identify and prioritize research facility needs, and 3) identify, prioritize and engage other agency and NGO partners for the field station. A strategic planning effort, encompassing the next five to ten years, will establish goals and articulate constraints to focus the efforts of both Park and UC Davis Natural Reserves staff as research and teaching increase at LFS. For more information about Lassen Field station visit https://naturalreserves.ucdavis.edu/lassen-volcanic-national-park-partnership.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.