Planning Grant:: Developing a strategic plan and infrastructure needs for the Laguna Bacalar Field Station, Bacalar Mexico

规划补助金：为墨西哥巴卡拉尔拉古纳巴卡拉尔现场站制定战略计划和基础设施需求

• 批准号: 1522493
• 负责人: J Klump
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1522493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Developing; strategic; plan

This project will lay plans for development of an international, educational and research field station and marine laboratory in Bacalar, Mexico, located in the southern Yucatan Peninsula 30 km north of Belize on the shores of Laguna Bacalar. Laguna Bacalar lies within a globally unique ecological and archeological complex and environmentally sensitive corridor that connects terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems, and that has been extensively inhabited by humans, dating back to the Mayans, for well over 3000 years. As Mexico's second largest natural lake, this pristine system also lies at the doorstep of major ecological changes and socio-economic forces driven largely by tourism that are sweeping the Yucatan Peninsula. The Bacalar corridor contains highly dynamic and diverse regional groundwater flow regimes, high and low growth tropical forests, dense freshwater and marine mangrove forests, active sublacustrine springs and deep cenote sinkholes, estuaries, and unique fringing reef areas of the 1000 km long Mesoamerican barrier coral reef. Virtually unknown to the scientific community, the Laguna also contains the world's largest and most extensive living stromatolite complex, considered by many as living examples of one of the earliest life forms on earth. This ecosystem also epitomizes one of the great challenges of our time - understanding and managing the interactions between human activity and vulnerable environmental systems. Establishment of an internationally recognized field station will not only serve the scientific community, but will also provide the data, information and understanding for sustainable development as well as the economic benefit of hosting research and researchers from around the world. Opportunities to enhance the local economy in the areas of technology, research and education have been rare, but in a broader context such opportunities are at the heart of the ongoing employment forces affecting Mexico and the U.S.This project will initiate and facilitate planning the establishment of an international education and research field station located on Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico. This planning will be a collaborative effort by the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (SFS); El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) at Chetumal, MX; the Institute of Ecology, UNAM; and the Municipio Bacalar, MX. The goal is to solicit input from a variety of scientists, field station managers, educators, and Mexican governmental groups (municipal, state, federal leaders e.g., Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA)) to delineate scientific needs and opportunities, to outline a robust research agenda, to assure the implementation of the best planning practices for field station development, and to identify the basic requirements for a broadly available facility for professionals with diverse backgrounds. The station will serve the scientific communities from an array of institutions with the common interest of studying local to international challenges in the field of water and natural resources, including interface studies of science with policy, economics, and social structure with a strong educational component e.g., STEM programs, Mexican COBACH high school programs. The field station planning goals will be achieved by engaging working groups with targeted outputs: by convening an international symposium to summarize research previously accomplished, to identify new research frontiers, and to conduct facilitated planning sessions to develop field station future directions; by conducting interactive seminars for regional lay persons and the indigenous Maya; and by soliciting advice and feedback from successful Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) directors and managers on station management, budgeting, and use policies.

该项目将制定计划在墨西哥巴卡拉（Bacalar）的国际，教育和研究野外实验室开发，位于伯利兹（Laguna Bacalar）海岸30公里处的南尤卡坦半岛（South Yucatan Peninsula）。 Laguna Bacalar位于全球独特的生态和考古复合物以及环境敏感的走廊中，该走廊连接了陆地，淡水，河口和海洋系统，并且受到人类的广泛影响，可追溯到玛雅人，远至3000多年。作为墨西哥第二大天然湖泊，这种原始系统也位于主要生态变化和社会经济力量的家门口，这在很大程度上是由席卷尤卡坦半岛的旅游业所驱动的。 Bacalar走廊包含高度动态和潜水的区域地下水流程，高和低生长的热带森林，茂密的淡水和海洋红树林，活跃的Sublacultine Springs以及深厚的cenote凹坑，河口，以及1000 km长米索马梅米索米曼河barrieref的独特的边缘珊瑚礁。 Laguna几乎不知道科学界，还包含世界上最大，最广泛的生命质膜岩体，被许多人认为是地球上最早的生命形式之一的活生生例子。该生态系统还代表了我们这个时代的巨大挑战之一 - 了解和管理人类活动与脆弱环境系统之间的相互作用。建立国际认可的现场站不仅将为科学界服务，而且还将为可持续发展提供数据，信息和理解，以及主持研究人员和来自世界各地的研究人员的经济利益。在技​​术，研究和教育领域增强当地经济的机会很少，但是在更广泛的背景下，这种机会是影响墨西哥和美国的正在进行的就业人士的核心，该项目将启动和促进在墨西哥昆塔纳·鲁奥（Quintana Rooo）的Laguna Bacalar上建立位于Laguna Bacalar的国际教育和研究站。这项计划将是威斯康星大学 - 米尔沃基大学（SFS）的淡水科学学院的合作努力； MX Chetumal的El Colegio de la Frontera Sur（Ecosur）； UNAM生态研究所；和MX的Municipio Bacalar。目的是征求来自各种科学家，现场经理，教育工作者和墨西哥政府团体（市政，州，联邦领导人，例如ComisiónNacionaldel Agua（Conagua））来划定科学需求和机遇，以概述一项良好的研究项目，以实现专业的专业习惯，并确定机遇，以确定科学需求和机会具有潜水员的背景。该站将从一系列机构中为科学社区提供服务，这些机构的共同兴趣是研究水和自然资源领域的国际挑战，包括与政策，经济学和社会结构进行界面研究，并具有强大的教育组成部分，例如STEM计划，墨西哥Cobach高中计划。实地站计划的目标将通过与有针对性的产出的工作组接合来实现：通过召集国际研讨会以摘要先前完成的研究，确定新的研究前沿，并进行准备的计划会议以开发现场站未来的方向；通过为地区外行人和土著玛雅人进行互动半段；通过征求成功的生物野外站和海洋实验室（FSML）董事的建议和反馈，并在车站管理，预算和使用政策方面进行了建议。