FSML: Enhancing long-term research through improved sample archiving at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)

FSML：通过改进密歇根大学生物站 (UMBS) 的样本存档来加强长期研究

• 批准号: 1624205
• 负责人: Lucas Nave
• 金额: $ 15.49万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Enhancing; long; term; research

This project supports local contractors to renovate a building at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) into a sample archive. The UMBS is a 10,000 acre, 107-year old field station that has made major contributions to the understanding and management of ecosystems in the upper Great Lakes region. Among UMBS' strengths are research on aquatic food webs, forest ecosystems, and the diversity and behavior of all kinds of organisms. Throughout UMBS' long history of research, researchers from around the world have collected irreplaceable samples of soil, sediment, water, and organisms, representing points in time that can never be revisited. Many of these samples have perished because there has never been secure, designated space for their safe keeping. By renovating existing space at UMBS into a stable, secure archive, and integrating samples into the UMBS Information Management System, this project enables researchers to save samples for future analyses using novel technologies, share them with researchers working on similar problems around the world, and provide reference points for future projects examining environmental change. The latter is a hallmark of UMBS, which has been documenting profound changes in the environment since the days that the upper Great Lakes region was a barren land of burned-over clearcuts. From then until now, research on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems at UMBS has informed our understanding of ecosystem services such as water quality protection, forest products supply, and wildlife habitat. Looking to the future, understanding how natural ecosystems function, and how best to manage them for sustainable use of resources requires an ongoing commitment to retaining physical samples, as these are the basis for the data that make informed decision-making possible. Lastly, proper archiving increases scientific efficiency by retaining samples that require time, money, and effort to collect. This project supports establishment of a soil, sediment, and water sample archive at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS). The archive will provide stable storage for long-term samples generated by historic, ongoing, and emerging research programs. The project includes energy-efficient renovation of an underutilized 1600ft2 building for climate-controlled storage, equipment for sample preparation (filtration, milling, freeze-drying), and digital integration of archived samples into the UMBS Information Management System (IMS). The IMS is an online data management system (designed after the LTER Data Portal) rolled out in 2010 that provides curation, discoverability, and access for 100 project datasets and 7,000 publications from UMBS' 107-year research history. Integration with the IMS leverages ongoing, internally supported efforts at digital data curation, and will ultimately link research sites and investigators, physical samples, analytical results, completed datasets, and publications, thus curating the full research process and making it available to the scientific community. The soils component of the archive will be linked, through the International Soil Carbon Network (ISCN), to a network of archive facilities around the U.S. to provide secure storage for high-value, at-risk soil samples. ISCN researchers (400) will be able to request storage space and apply to use archived material for reanalysis and synthesis projects. The project will of direct benefit to UMBS-based researchers, who come to the field station from 2-3 dozen institutions annually with support from 29 federally-funded projects (16 by NSF) during the past 5 years. By supporting the preservation of carefully collected samples, this project increases the efficient use of scientific resources by saving the physical artifacts of work performed, and will enable new insights when new analyses are performed on long-term samples.

该项目支持当地承包商将密歇根大学生物站 (UMBS) 的一座建筑改造成样本档案馆。 UMBS 是一个占地 10,000 英亩、已有 107 年历史的野外站，为了解和管理五大湖上游地区的生态系统做出了重大贡献。 UMBS 的优势包括对水生食物网、森林生态系统以及各种生物体的多样性和行为的研究。纵观 UMBS 悠久的研究历史，来自世界各地的研究人员收集了不可替代的土壤、沉积物、水和生物样本，这些样本代表了永远无法重新审视的时间点。其中许多样本已经消失，因为从来没有安全、指定的空间来安全保存它们。通过将 UMBS 的现有空间改造为稳定、安全的档案库，并将样本集成到 UMBS 信息管理系统中，该项目使研究人员能够使用新技术保存样本以供将来分析，与世界各地研究类似问题的研究人员共享它们，并为未来研究环境变化的项目提供参考点。后者是 UMBS 的一个标志，自从五大湖上游地区成为一片被烧毁的荒地以来，UMBS 就一直在记录环境的深刻变化。从那时到现在，UMBS 对水生和陆地生态系统的研究让我们了解了生态系统服务，例如水质保护、林产品供应和野生动物栖息地。展望未来，了解自然生态系统如何运作，以及如何最好地管理它们以实现资源的可持续利用，需要持续致力于保留物理样本，因为这些是使明智决策成为可能的数据基础。最后，适当的归档可以通过保留需要时间、金钱和精力来收集的样本来提高科学效率。该项目支持在密歇根大学生物站 (UMBS) 建立土壤、沉积物和水样本档案。该档案将为历史、正在进行和新兴研究项目生成的长期样本提供稳定的存储。该项目包括对一座未充分利用的 1600 平方英尺建筑进行节能改造，用于气候控制存储、样品制备设备（过滤、研磨、冷冻干燥），以及将存档样品数字集成到 UMBS 信息管理系统 (IMS) 中。 IMS 是一个在线数据管理系统（在 LTER 数据门户之后设计），于 2010 年推出，提供对来自 UMBS 107 年研究历史的 100 个项目数据集和 7,000 份出版物的管理、可发现性和访问。与 IMS 的集成利用了持续的、内部支持的数字数据管理工作，最终将研究地点和研究人员、物理样本、分析结果、完整的数据集和出版物联系起来，从而管理整个研究过程并将其提供给科学界。档案的土壤部分将通过国际土壤碳网络 (ISCN) 连接到美国各地的档案设施网络，为高价值、有风险的土壤样本提供安全存储。 ISCN 研究人员 (400) 将能够请求存储空间并申请使用存档材料进行再分析和综合项目。该项目将使 UMBS 的研究人员直接受益，在过去 5 年里，他们每年从 2-3 打机构来到现场站，并得到 29 个联邦资助项目（其中 16 个由 NSF 资助）的支持。通过支持保存精心收集的样本，该项目通过保存所执行工作的物理工件来提高科学资源的有效利用，并将在对长期样本进行新分析时提供新的见解。