FSML: Enabling Forest Canopy Access and Analytical Capacity at the University of Michigan Biological Station

FSML：在密歇根大学生物站提供森林冠层访问和分析能力

• 批准号: 0627245
• 负责人: Knute Nadelhoffer
• 金额: $ 15.12万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0627245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Enabling; Forest; Canopy; Access

This award supports acquisition of research equipment by the University of Michigan Biological station (UMBS). The equipment will improve integrated research and education efforts in analysis of critical and understudied habitats (forest canopies and rooting zones), and will expand capacities for study of organisms, biotic communities, and biogeochemical processes in these habitats. This request builds upon a strong foundation of existing research and education programs. The requested items will improve research capabilities of faculty-student research teams based at UMBS, including undergraduates participating in an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU- Sites) program in Biosphere-Atmosphere Studies in a Changing Global Environment. Equipment will also be used by graduate student researchers who are fellows in the BART (Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training NSF IGERT program), the UMBS Carbon Flux Project, and various other student-faculty research teams. The equipment includes a Zero Emission Canopy Access Vehicle (ZECAV), which will provide faculty and student researchers access to a wider range of tree crown and forest canopy environments than can be investigated with existing fixed towers, pruning poles and climbing gear. A Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer will be used for measurement of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in forest soil solutions. Together, these two items will serve a diverse set of student, faculty, and visiting researchers studying biogeochemical, eco-physiological, organismal, atmospheric, and community processes in the changing forests of the northern Great Lakes region. These items will dramatically increase access to understudied forest canopy and forest-root environments, and will provide critical information about organisms, biotic communities, and ecological processes to our student and faculty researchers. They will also enhance student field class experiences and increase the breadth and depth of UMBS research and education activities. The UMBS, located on Douglas Lake in Northern Michigan, has operated continuously since 1909 with important contributions to fundamental studies of plant and animal ecology, animal behavior, limnology, parasitology, systematics, biogeochemistryand atmospheric science. Since its beginning, the station has trained over 8000 students; over the last 20 years it has hosted a average of nearly 30 senior researchers annually. The UMBS actively recruits individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from under-represented minority groups, for its programs of field-based environmental research and education.Because of the presence of diverse, protected habitats within its boundaries, the UMBS Station is designated a Biosphere Reserve by the U.N. Man and the Biosphere Program.

该奖项支持密歇根大学生物站（UMBS）购买研究设备。 该设备将改善对关键和未充分研究的栖息地（森林冠层和生根区）分析的综合研究和教育工作，并将扩大这些栖息地的生物体、生物群落和生物地球化学过程的研究能力。这一要求建立在现有研究和教育计划的坚实基础之上。所要求的项目将提高 UMBS 师生研究团队的研究能力，包括参加 NSF 本科生研究体验 (REU-Sites) 项目的本科生，该项目涉及不断变化的全球环境中的生物圈-大气研究。 BART（生物圈-大气研究和培训 NSF IGERT 计划）、UMBS 碳通量项目以及其他各种师生研究团队的研究生研究人员也将使用这些设备。该设备包括零排放树冠进入车辆（ZECAV），与现有的固定塔、修剪杆和攀爬装备相比，它将使教师和学生研究人员能够接触到更广泛的树冠和森林树冠环境。总有机碳（TOC）分析仪将用于测量森林土壤溶液中溶解无机碳（DIC）和溶解有机碳（DOC）。 这两个项目将共同服务于研究五大湖北部地区不断变化的森林中的生物地球化学、生态生理、有机体、大气和群落过程的各类学生、教师和访问研究人员。这些项目将极大地增加对未充分研究的森林冠层和森林根部环境的了解，并将为我们的学生和教师研究人员提供有关生物体、生物群落和生态过程的重要信息。他们还将增强学生的实地课堂体验，并增加 UMBS 研究和教育活动的广度和深度。 UMBS 位于密歇根州北部的道格拉斯湖畔，自 1909 年以来一直持续运行，对动植物生态学、动物行为、湖沼学、寄生虫学、系统学、生物地球化学和大气科学的基础研究做出了重要贡献。 自成立以来，该站已培训学员8000余名；过去 20 年来，平均每年接待近 30 名高级研究人员。 UMBS 积极招募来自不同背景的个人，包括来自代表性不足的少数群体的个人，用于其实地环境研究和教育计划。由于其边界内存在多样化的受保护栖息地，UMBS 站被指定为生物圈由联合国人与生物圈计划保留。