FSML: SERC Visiting Scientist Cottages

史密森环境研究中心（SERC）在其位于切萨皮克湾海岸的1000公顷土地上提供实地、实验室和召集设施，以支持对沿海景观生态系统之间相互作用的研究，以响应气候和人类的影响。有了这笔资金，SERC将为来访的科学家建造现场短期住房，以缓解目前缺乏ADA住宿设施的不足和恶化的住房设施。这项投资是SERC扩大住宿的更广泛总体规划的一部分；它将确保继续获得关键的正在进行的研究，并将扩大外联的机会。SERC在河口和陆地联合研究方面是独一无二的，它提供了重要的长期和大规模的数据，以及陆地-海洋相互作用和对环境变化的反应的独特实验。它主持了许多重大研究项目，包括参与国家生态观测站网络；二氧化碳浓度升高、河流排放和水质、河口鱼类和无脊椎动物群落动态、树木人口统计学影响的长期研究；树种多样性和生态系统功能的实验研究。这些资源的获取为访问科学家提供了丰富多样的机会，使他们能够在广泛的背景数据和多因素相互作用的综合背景下进行新的研究。访问SERC资源也为本科生实习培训和研究生论文提供了独特的机会。大约60个活跃的校外研究项目利用了一系列长期数据集，这些数据集受到我们的学术和政府赞助商和合作者的高度重视。SERC设施支持50年的历史，既为访问科学家提供访问机会，又为环境政策制定者提供有关新出现的环境问题的信息。短期住房使访问研究人员和教育工作者能够最有效和最经济地使用SERC的独特资源和网站。SERC的网站还为来自附近华盛顿特区和马里兰州首府安纳波利斯的国会工作人员和政治家提供了许多参观服务。美国国务院经常在从事环境资源管理工作的国际访问者参观时介绍SERC。SERC设施也是SERC各种合作研究和学术合作伙伴培训计划的重要资源。该设施是中国科学研究委员会专业培训的核心特征，每年为55名实习生，10名研究生，25名博士后和570名短期和长期访问科学家提供支持。这些访问科学家中约有130人一次在该地点活跃地进行了数天的研究，每年有400多人参加会议、讲习班和培训。有关SERC的更多信息，请参阅https://serc.si.edu/.This该奖项反映了NSF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，认为值得支持。

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) provides field, lab and convening facilities at its 1,000 ha property on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in support of research on the interactions among ecosystems of the coastal landscape in response to climate and human impacts. With this award, SERC will build on-site short-term housing for visiting scientists relieving presently inadequate and deteriorating housing facilities that lack ADA accommodations. This investment is part of a much broader master plan for growing accommodation at SERC; it will ensure continued access for critical on-going research and will enable expanded opportunities for outreach. SERC is unique in its combined estuarine and terrestrial research that provides important long-term and large-scale data and unique experiments on land-sea interactions and responses to environmental change. It hosts numerous major research projects including participation in the National Ecological Observatory Network; long-term research on the effects of elevated CO2, stream discharge and water quality, estuarine fish & invertebrate community dynamics, tree demography; and experimental research on tree species diversity and ecosystem function. Access to these resources provide rich and diverse opportunities for visiting scientists to conduct both new research within the context of extensive background data and synthesis of multifactorial interactions. Access to SERC resources also provide unique opportunities for undergraduate intern training and graduate dissertations.Approximately 60 active extramural research projects leverage an array of long-term datasets, and the datasets are highly valued by our academic and governmental sponsors and collaborators. SERC Facilities support a 50-year history of both providing access to visiting scientists and informing environmental policy makers on emerging environmental issues. Short-term housing enables visiting researchers and educators to use SERC’s unique resources and site most efficiently and cost-effectively. SERC’s site is also hosts numerous tours for Congressional staff members and politicians from nearby Washington, DC, and the Maryland capital Annapolis. U.S. State Department often features SERC in tours of international visitors working on environmental resource management. SERC Facilities are also an important resource for SERC’s diverse array of collaborative research and training programs for academic partners. The Facility is a central feature of SERC’s professional training that annually supports 55 interns, 10 grad students, 25 postdocs and 570 visiting scientists for short and long periods. Approximately 130 of these visiting scientists actively conduct research on the site for multiple days at a time, and over 400 attend meetings, workshops and training annually. For more information on SERC, see https://serc.si.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.