Operations and Maintenance Support for Kluane Lake Research Station, Yukon

Kluane Lake Research Station(KLRS)自1961年以来一直在育空地区运营，为地球、环境和生物科学领域的一系列长期研究项目提供了平台。空间站位于加拿大最高山脉圣埃利亚斯山脉的山脚下，将研究人员连接到北部高山、北方森林和湖泊生态系统交界处的动态环境。KLRS周围的环境以及由空间站支持的长期生态和冰川研究计划在加拿大是独一无二的。KLRS是国际北极陆地研究和监测网络中唯一的加拿大西部研究站。 空间站从每年的4月到9月开放，但也在冬季定期开放，以帮助研究项目。设施包括厨房和最多可容纳40人的住宿、实验室空间、通信基础设施、简易机场和用于现场后勤的夏季资源工作人员。KLRS支持来自加拿大各地和国际研究界的研究小组和实地学校。从2013年到2016年，共有25所不同的机构使用了该设施，包括12所不同的加拿大大学、育空学院、政府科学家以及美国、芬兰、瑞典、英国和德国的大学。 KLRS目前的研究思路包括以下交叉项目：草食生态学(例如种群周期；对环境压力的行为和生理反应)、植被动力学(例如灌木与树木的相互作用；树线对气候变化的反应；灌木在高山土壤发展中的作用)、生态毒理学、湖泊水文学、冰川水文学和动力学、冰冻圈-气候过程、从湖泊沉积物和冰芯重建环境，以及用于模拟地貌对气候变化反应的遥感和气候缩减研究。在一个令人兴奋的多学科环境中，所有项目都有很强的学生培训组成部分。 KLRS促成的长期研究具有区域和国际意义，因为研究人员、社区、政府和利益攸关方努力了解和量化环境变化。基于KLRS的方法和发现被广泛采用，例如，国际社会致力于测量和模拟植被和冰川对气候变化的反应，以及对全球碳循环和海平面的相关影响。世界上很少有地方能提供进入如此动态的景观的机会，在保持长期实验和监测努力的同时，有机会研究环境过程和相互作用。这类研究的科学价值以及使它们成为可能的站都不为过。

Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) has been operating in Yukon Territory since 1961, providing a platform for a rich array of long-running research programs in Earth, environmental, and biological sciences. The station is located in the foothills of the St Elias Mountains, Canada’s highest mountain range, connecting researchers to a dynamic environment at the junction of northern alpine, boreal forest, and lacustrine ecosystems. The environment surrounding KLRS and the long-term ecological and glaciological research programs supported by the station are unique within Canada. KLRS is the only western Canadian research station in the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic. The station is open from April until September each year, but also opens up periodically in the winter season to assist research projects. Facilities include a kitchen and accommodation for up to 40, lab space, communications infrastructure, an airstrip, and summer resource staff for field logistics. KLRS supports research groups and field schools from across Canada and the international research community. A total of 25 different institutions used the facility from 2013-2016, including 12 different Canadian universities, Yukon College, government scientists, and universities in the U.S., Finland, Sweden, the U.K., and Germany. Current research threads at KLRS include cross-cutting projects in herbivore ecology (e.g., population cycles; behavioural and physiological responses to environmental stress), vegetation dynamics (e.g., shrub-tree interactions; treeline response to climate change; role of shrubs in soil development in the alpine), ecotoxicology, lake hydrology, glacier hydrology and dynamics, cryosphere-climate processes, environmental reconstructions from lake sediments and ice cores, and remote sensing and climate downscaling studies for modelling of landscape response to climate change. All projects have a strong component of student training, in an exciting multidisciplinary milieu. The long-term research that is enabled by KLRS is of regional and international significance, as researchers, communities, governments, and stakeholders work to understand and quantify environmental change. Methods and discoveries based out of KLRS are widely adopted, for instance by the international community working to measure and model vegetation and glacier response to climate change, and the associated impacts on the global carbon cycle and sea level. Few places in the world offer access to such a dynamic landscape, with the opportunity to study environmental processes and interactions while maintaining long-term experiments and monitoring efforts. The scientific value of such studies and the stations that enable them cannot be over-stated.