Planning Grant: Developing a Strategic Plan and Infrastructure Needs Assessment for the CICHAZ Field Station

规划拨款：为 CICHAZ 现场站制定战略计划和基础设施需求评估

• 批准号: 1418820
• 负责人: Gil Rosenthal
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1418820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Developing; Strategic; Plan

Texas A&M University is awarded a grant to support the Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas "Aguazarca" (CICHAZ: www.cichaz.org) in developing a strategic plan for future improvements to infrastructure to continue to serve a diverse group of international life and social scientists as well as educational and outreach programs. Located in a region of Mexico with high biological and cultural diversity but devoid of academic and research institutions, CICHAZ has become a hub for multi-disciplinary research on social sciences, freshwater ecology, and environmental biology. The current need for CICHAZ is to develop plans for providing the infrastructure and equipment for a contemporary field station that will serve a growing group of researchers as well as outreach efforts. This planning project has two primary objectives: (1) enable CICHAZ personnel to visit established, productive field stations including NSF FSML supported stations and work with their leaders to learn best practices for stations with research and education missions and (2) to hold workshops that will bring together stakeholders from both sides of the US-Mexico border, both education and research backgrounds, and both life science and social science perspectives at CICHAZ in order to develop a strategic plan. Ultimately, the practices learned from visiting other stations together with the workshops will culminate in a 5-year plan and additional long-term objects with landmarks for achieving those objectives. As an international research station with a strong outreach mission and particular focus on research and educational relationships between the U.S. and Mexico, the broader impacts of the longer-term initiatives of the field station include research experiences for US and Mexican undergraduates and a mentoring program for local junior and high school students. This planning effort will specifically include activities to develop strategy that will help to achieve these goals.

德克萨斯 A&M 大学获得一笔赠款，用于支持 Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas “Aguazarca”（CICHAZ：www.cichaz.org）制定未来改善基础设施的战略计划，以继续为国际生活的多元化群体提供服务CICHAZ 位于墨西哥生物和文化高度多样性但缺乏学术和研究机构的地区，已成为社会科学家的多学科研究中心。 CICHAZ 当前的需求是制定为当代野外站提供基础设施和设备的计划，该站将为不断增长的研究人员群体和推广工作提供服务。该规划项目有两个主要目标。 ：(1) 使 CICHAZ 人员能够访问已建立的、富有成效的现场站，包括 NSF FSML 支持的站，并与其领导者合作，学习具有研究和教育任务的站的最佳实践；(2) 举办研讨会，将双方利益相关者聚集在一起美国-墨西哥CICHAZ 的边界、教育和研究背景以及生命科学和社会科学观点，以便制定战略计划，最终，从访问其他站以及研讨会中学到的实践将最终形成一个 5 年计划和额外的长期计划。 - 具有实现这些目标的里程碑的长期目标。作为一个具有强大外展使命并特别关注美国和墨西哥之间的研究和教育关系的国际研究站，该实地站的长期举措的更广泛影响包括研究经验。对于美国和墨西哥的本科生以及这项规划工作将特别包括制定有助于实现这些目标的战略的活动。