Operation and Maintenance Support to Enhance Research and Highly Qualified Personnel Training at the Queen's University Biological Station

女王大学生物站(QUBS)70多年来一直站在以大学为基础的生态学、进化论、保护和环境研究的培训和研究的前沿。以昆士兰大学为基础的工作已经产生了300篇本科生和研究生论文，以及1000篇同行评议论文，其中许多发表在领先的科学期刊上。它的两个校区提供实验室空间、野外和实验室设备、教室、图书馆、研究藏品，可容纳130人的住宿和一个有工作人员的厨房。昆士兰大学瑞银的研究涉及许多领域，从基于卫星的遥感，到气候变化或毒素对环境的影响研究，再到入侵和濒危物种的研究。用户来自女王大学、加拿大其他许多大学、非政府组织和政府机构，以及来自美国、欧洲、中国和拉丁美洲的机构。昆士兰大学埃尔鲍湖教育中心提供科学推广和公众教育，重点是在空间站所做的工作。使用费、女王捐款和捐款支持维护和基本后勤，但QUBS缺乏任何专职科学人员的资金。因此，我们请求NSERC为一名博士级别的科学协调员和一名收集和数据经理提供两年的资金，以解决这一严重的赤字问题。科学协调员将组织研讨会，促进合作和数字交流，举办公共研讨会系列，并帮助监督学生实习生和总部。收集和数据管理器将帮助我们的植物收集中的所有144,000个标本数字化，为动物标本和组织编目，数字化来自以前50年研究的数据，监控我们由NSERC资助的气候站网络，增强我们的地理信息系统数据，并确保所有数据在我们的数据门户网站上公开可用。我们的8名共同申请者来自4所不同的大学，合作伙伴来自全球25个组织。共同申请者拥有HQP驱动的研究的典范记录，仅在过去5年内就发表了300篇同行评议的论文。这笔资金支持的研究和HQP培训计划将解决生态和环境科学中的关键问题。增加使用量将有助于这些职位的长期财务可持续性。创建的项目、数据库和科学基础设施将使&gt；175 HQP能够在5年内进行培训，并将通过开放获取的数据档案对昆士兰大学和更大的科学界的研究和培训产生持久的影响。

The Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) has been at the forefront of university-based training and research in ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental studies for over 7 decades. QUBS-based work has produced > 300 undergraduate and graduate theses, and > 1000 peer-reviewed papers, many in leading science journals. Its two campuses provide lab space, field & lab equipment, classrooms, library, research collections, with accommodation for 130 and a staffed kitchen. Research at QUBS spans many fields, from satellite-based remote sensing, through studies of impacts of climate change or toxins on the environment, to work on invasive and at risk species. Users come from Queen’s University, from many other Canadian universities, NGOs and governmental agencies, and from institutions from the USA, Europe, China, and Latin America. QUBS Elbow Lake Education Centre provides science outreach and public education, with emphasis on work done at the Station. User fees, Queen’s contributions, and donations support maintenance and basic logistics, but QUBS lacks funding for any dedicated scientific staff. We thus request NSERC funding for a PhD-level Science Coordinator and a Collections and Data Manager for 2 years to address this critical deficit. The Science Coordinator will organize workshops, facilitate collaborations and digital communication, run public seminar series, and help supervise student interns and HQP. The Collections & Data Manager will help digitize all 144,000 specimens in our plant collection, catalogue animal specimens and tissues, digitize data from > 50 years of previous research, monitor our NSERC-funded climate station network, augment our GIS data, and ensure that all data are publically available on our data portal. Our 8 co-applicants come from 4 different universities, with collaborators from > 25 organizations worldwide. Co-applicants have exemplary records of HQP-driven research, and collectively have published > 300 peer-reviewed papers in the last 5 years alone. Research and HQP training programs enabled by this funding will address key issues in ecology and environmental science. Increased usership will assist with longer-term financial sustainability of these positions. Programs, databases, and scientific infrastructure created will enable training of > 175 HQP over a 5-year period, and will have enduring impacts on research and training at QUBS and for the larger science community via open access data archives.