Construction of Multi-user Facility at the Southwestern Research Station

西南研究站多用户设施建设

• 批准号: 0535777
• 负责人: Dawn Wilson
• 金额: $ 14.24万
• 依托单位: American Museum Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0535777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Construction; Multi; user; Facility; Southwestern; Construction; Multi; user; Facility; Southwestern

This award supports construction of a new 1200 sq. ft. (~ 111.5 m2) multi-user facility equipped solar panels and eight computers that will provide an integrated IT support system to enhance infrastructure for research and education at the Southwestern Research Station (SWRS) of the American Museum of Natural History. The new facility will include 960 sq. feet of classroom space and 240 sq. feet of storage space for equipment used in research and instruction. The facility will increase the ability of the SWRS to accommodate existing and proposed courses and workshops. It will also enhance the activities of scientists and students that conduct research at the SWRS while promoting "green" building practices at the SWRS. The facility will double the space available for courses and workshops, and will provide visiting students and faculty access to computers with high speed internet service. The new facility will allow the SWRS to improve and expand its role as a leading center for biological research and education for scientists and educators from institutions across the country and around the world. Among other uses, the proposed facility will provide space for newly developed workshops in applied GIS and remote sensing for researchers and resource managers. Now fifty years old, the station, which is located in Portal, Arizona, has served biologists, geologists, and anthropologists interested in studying the diverse environments and biota of the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. Use of the SWRS has grown significantly over the past decade, largely due to the growing number of courses and workshops held at SWRS and concomitant increase in housing and dining facilities. Currently, use of the SWRS is limited by the availability of space for undergraduate and graduate courses, workshops, meetings, and seminars, and by the small number of computers that are shared by up to 60 researchers and their assistants at any given time. This award will meet the critical need for new infrastructure that has resulted from the growing interest in use of the facility.

该奖项支持建造新的1200平方英尺（〜111.5 m2）多用户设施，配备了配备的太阳能电池板和八台计算机，这些计算机将提供一个集成的IT支持系统，以增强美国自然历史学博物馆西南研究站（SWR）的研究和教育基础设施。新设施将包括960平方英尺的教室空间和240平方英尺的存储空间，用于用于研究和教学中的设备。该设施将提高SWR适应现有课程和讲习班的能力。 它还将增强在SWR中进行研究的科学家和学生的活动，同时促进SWRS的“绿色”建筑实践。该设施将使课程和研讨会可用的空间增加一倍，并将为访问的学生和教职员工提供高速互联网服务的访问。新设施将使SWR可以改善并扩大其作为全国和全球机构的科学家和教育工作者领先的生物学研究和教育中心的作用。除其他用途外，拟议的设施将为应用GIS的新开发研讨会和研究人员和资源经理提供遥感的研讨会。 现年五十岁的车站位于亚利桑那州门户网站，为生物学家，地质学家和人类学家服务，有兴趣研究亚利桑那州东南部Chiricahua山的各种环境和生物群。在过去的十年中，SWR的使用已大大增长，这主要是由于SWR在SWR举行的课程和研讨会的数量越来越多以及住房和用餐设施随之增加。当前，SWR的使用受到本科和研究生课程，研讨会，会议和研讨会的空间的限制，以及在任何给定时间都有多达60位研究人员及其助手共享的少量计算机。该奖项将满足对新基础设施的关键需求，这是由于对设施使用的兴趣日益兴趣所致。