CREST Center for Forest Restoration Triangle (FORT)

CREST 森林恢复三角中心 (FORT)

• 批准号: 1914463
• 负责人: Joshua Sloan
• 金额: $ 499.71万
• 依托单位: New Mexico Highlands University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-15 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1914463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CREST; Center; Forest; Restoration; Triangle

The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. With National Science Foundation support, New Mexico Highlands University will develop the Forest Restoration Triangle (FORT) Center. The FORT Center will engage in regional multidisciplinary research, education and stakeholder collaborations to advance the understanding of the effects of restoration activities on historically forested environments. The Forest Restoration Triangle Center is a collaboration of three institutions: The Department of Natural Resources Management at New Mexico Highlands University; New Mexico State University's John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center and the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute at New Mexico Highlands University. FORT will provide novel science-based solutions for private, tribal, state, and federal forest managers faced with the twin threat of catastrophic fires due to overgrown forests and the inability of post-fire plant communities and ecosystems to naturally regenerate. The FORT Center articulates three research thrusts. Subproject 1 will determine the extent to which a nucleation (planting in aggregated pattern) planting strategy matched with an improved seedling stock is effective to establish vegetation on damaged forest sites. This research will contribute to understanding the combination of nucleation size and planting density that promotes greater survival and growth. Subproject 2 will conduct field research to enhance understanding of changes in fire regimes driven by climate variability. It will examine post-restoration stand structure for increased establishment and survival of natural regeneration, Subproject 3 applies a nucleation concept to pre-fire and post-fire planning at the landscape level, introducing high impact practices to fire modeling technologies. Nucleation sites will be evaluated and modeled in the context of strategic fuels treatments and fire behavior. The FORT Center will ensure the training of a generation of highly qualified STEM investigators with the skills and experience to address complicated ecological questions. A place-based approach to engage students in fire management and forest ecology and restoration will be implemented. The FORT Center will develop strategies for the management and restoration of resilient forests in the context of climate change and fire. Although regionally focused, FORT Center activities address a global need for management of wildfires. The Forest Restoration Triangle Center at New Mexico Highlands University will improve forestry education by connecting classroom lessons with real-world problems; revitalize outreach by continued and close cooperation with watershed and other land management groups; and promote diversity by emphasizing recruitment, retention, and mentoring of students and practitioners representing underrepresented groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学技术研究卓越研究中心提供了支持，以通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心来增强少数派服务机构的研究能力。在国家科学基金会的支持下，新墨西哥州高地大学将开发森林修复三角（Fort）中心。堡垒中心将参与区域多学科研究，教育和利益相关者的合作，以促进对恢复活动对历史森林环境的影响的理解。 森林恢复三角中心是三个机构的合作：新墨西哥州高地大学自然资源管理部；新墨西哥州立大学的约翰·T·哈灵顿林业研究中心以及新墨西哥州高地大学的新墨西哥森林和分水岭恢复研究所。 Fort将为私人，部落，州和联邦森林经理提供新颖的基于科学的解决方案，该解决方案由于森林过长以及后火的植物社区和生态系统而无法自然再生而面临灾难性大火的双重威胁。 堡垒中心阐明了三项研究。副标准1将确定与改善幼苗库存相匹配的成核（汇总模式种植）在多大程度上有效地在受损的森林地点建立植被。这项研究将有助于理解成核大小和种植密度的结合，从而促进更大的生存和生长。第2次对象将进行现场研究，以增强对气候变异性驱动的火灾状况变化的理解。它将检查恢复后的结构，以增加自然再生的建立和存活，subproject 3将核定概念应用于景观水平的火前和火后计划，将高影响力实践引入了火灾建模技术。成核位点将在战略燃料处理和火灾行为的背景下进行评估和建模。 堡垒中心将确保培训一代高素质的STEM调查人员，并具有解决复杂生态问题的技能和经验。将实施一种基于地方的方法，以使学生参与消防管理，森林生态和恢复。 堡垒中心将在气候变化和火灾的背景下制定弹性森林的管理和恢复的策略。尽管以区域为重点，但堡垒中心的活动应对全球对野火管理的需求。新墨西哥州高地大学的森林恢复三角中心将通过将课堂课与现实世界中的问题联系起来，改善林业教育；通过与分水岭和其他土地管理小组的持续和密切合作来振兴宣传；并通过强调代表代表人数不足的学生和从业者的招聘，保留和指导来促进多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准的评估值得支持的。