FSML: A Regional Hub for the EON's at Lacawac Sanctuary

FSML：拉卡瓦克保护区 EON 的区域中心

• 批准号: 1318747
• 负责人: Craig Williamson
• 金额: $ 32.91万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1318747&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Regional; Hub; EON; Lacawac

Miami University is awarded a grant for infrastructural and equipment improvements to Lacawac Sanctuary. This project will create a year-round Aquatic Optical Analysis Laboratory by: 1) renovating Lacawac Sanctuary's Visitor Center with the addition of an analytical lab (600 square ft.) and 2) acquiring two critical core optical instruments: a UV-Vis scanning spectrophotometer and benchtop fluorometer. Both research instruments are integral to the innovative optical sensor research at Lacawac. The addition will include a chemical fume hood, a water purification system, two laboratory sinks, laboratory benches, and cabinets. Lacawac has a long history of supporting research on ultraviolet radiation impacts to lake communities and ecosystems, the development of novel aquatic optical metrics, and as a site to test emerging sensors, sensor platforms, and sensor techniques. The improvements, together with the existing expertise and goals of the Lacawac staff and its research community, will enable Lacawac to serve more effectively as a regional research and training hub for ecological observatory networks (EON). Lacawac Sanctuary (http://lacawac.org/) is an independent, non-profit field station and nature preserve founded in 1966. Lacawac is located in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is within 100 miles of 140 institutions of higher education. Without a field station of their own, many of these institutions depend on Lacawac as a field site for research. Lacawac also serves as a site for weekend field trips in ecology and environmental science classes for many institutions of higher education. Lacawac Sanctuary is 206 ha in area, including a 21 ha pristine natural lake (Lake Lacawac) and nearly all of its watershed, wetlands, 2 small impoundments, and stands of mixed hardwoods and hemlock. Visiting classes and researchers have access to long-term databases of physical, chemical and biological lake data, and weather and solar data. Analytical laboratory space and the two core optical instruments will allow Lacawac to increase its leadership in training students and faculty on emerging sensors, sensor deployment platforms, and other EON approaches. Through active research programs, training workshops, and websites facilitated by Lacawac, hundreds of students and faculty are reached each year in person or in the virtual world. Lacawac's large public user base and member base is reached through: 1) public programs 2) general audience articles in a quarterly newsletter, 3) website and social media sites, and 4) informational outdoor display panels and pamphlets.

迈阿密大学获得了拉卡瓦克保护区基础设施和设备改进的拨款。该项目将通过以下方式创建一个全年开放的水生光学分析实验室：1) 翻新拉卡瓦克保护区的游客中心，增加一个分析实验室（600 平方英尺），2) 购买两台关键的核心光学仪器：一台紫外-可见扫描分光光度计和台式荧光计。这两种研究仪器都是 Lacawac 创新光学传感器研究的组成部分。新增设施包括化学通风柜、水净化系统、两个实验室水槽、实验室长凳和橱柜。拉卡瓦克在支持紫外线辐射对湖泊群落和生态系统影响的研究、新型水生光学指标的开发以及作为测试新兴传感器、传感器平台和传感器技术的场所方面有着悠久的历史。这些改进，加上拉卡瓦克工作人员及其研究界的现有专业知识和目标，将使拉卡瓦克能够更有效地作为生态观测站网络（EON）的区域研究和培训中心。拉卡瓦克保护区 (http://lacawac.org/) 是一个独立的非营利性野外考察站和自然保护区，成立于 1966 年。拉卡瓦克位于宾夕法尼亚州东北部的波科诺山脉，距离 140 所高等教育机构不到 100 英里。由于没有自己的实地考察站，许多此类机构依赖拉卡瓦克作为实地研究基地。拉卡瓦克还为许多高等教育机构提供生态学和环境科学课程周末实地考察的场所。拉卡瓦克保护区占地 206 公顷，包括 21 公顷的原始天然湖泊（拉卡瓦克湖）及其几乎所有的分水岭、湿地、2 个小蓄水池以及混合硬木和铁杉林。访问课程和研究人员可以访问物理、化学和生物湖泊数据以及天气和太阳数据的长期数据库。分析实验室空间和两个核心光学仪器将使 Lacawac 能够增强其在培训学生和教师新兴传感器、传感器部署平台和其他 EON 方法方面的领导地位。通过积极的研究项目、培训研讨会和 Lacawac 主办的网站，每年有数百名学生和教师在现场或虚拟世界中接触到。 Lacawac 庞大的公共用户群和会员群通过以下方式达到：1) 公共节目 2) 季度通讯中的一般受众文章，3) 网站和社交媒体网站，以及 4) 户外信息展示板和小册子。