A Specimen Processing Laboratory at Indio Mountains Research Station Headquarters

印第奥山研究站总部的样本处理实验室

• 批准号: 1954418
• 负责人: Vicente Mata-Silva
• 金额: $ 16.53万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Specimen; Processing; Laboratory; Indio; Mountains

A new clean laboratory (500 sq. ft.) will be built at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)'s Indio Mountains Research Station (IMRS). This laboratory will be devoted to lab research activities and for storing systematic collections of local fauna. The further expansion of the facilities at IMRS will enhance the station’s ability to house and service ecology and biology research, outreach, and accommodate educational student groups. The clean building is necessary for activities required today by cutting-edge science projects. IMRS has an important function educating persons at all levels of scientific study in the El Paso region, especially its high number of underrepresented Hispanics, which is a key factor when developing programs to best serve the regional community. The services associated with the new building will enable us to expand our present programs and provide opportunities to more researchers, middle school teachers and students, community college personnel, and university level educational groups interested on aspects of the northern Chihuahuan Desert, which is one probably of the least studied deserts in North America. Located next to the Mexican border and a large urban area, a modern IMRS will become a major player in ecological investigations and conservation practices.The Chihuahuan Desert has few areas with unrestricted access to places significantly conductive to field oriented research and education. IMRS provides a much needed venue for conducting those types of activities in mostly undisturbed terrestrial and aquatic environments. This new clean laboratory will improve the efficiency of current researchers and student projects. Additionally, the new laboratory will increase IMRS's ability to better serve groups of researchers, educational, and outreach personnel. UTEP, with IMRS being its major field investigation facility, is a foremost educator of underrepresented Hispanics in science and technology. It's enrollment of about 25,000 include over 72% Hispanic students, with a majority female. Teachers and future teachers involved in IMRS activities will have a big impact on the scientific competence of K-12 students enrolled in their classrooms and should increase interests in minority students electing to go into scientific disciplines at higher educational levels. The new facility improvement will allow UTEP's IMRS to serve and increase the competency of more people interested in Chihuahuan Desert studies by providing needed clean lab space and fulfill the demands of an R1 research university. https://www.utep.edu/indio/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.

新的清洁实验室（500平方英尺）将在德克萨斯大学El Paso（UTEP）的Indio Mountains Research Station（IMRS）建造。该实验室将部署到实验室研究活动和存储当地动物区系的系统收集。 IMRS设施的进一步扩展将增强该电台建立和服务生态学研究，外展和住宿教育学生团体的能力。清洁建筑对于当今最先进的科学项目所需的活动是必需的。 IMR在El Paso地区的各个级别的科学研究中都具有重要的功能，尤其是其代表性不足的西班牙裔人数，这是开发最能为地区社区服务的计划时的关键因素。与新建筑相关的服务将使我们能够扩大目前的计划，并为更多的研究人员，中学教师和学生，社区大学人员以及对北部奇瓦瓦州北部地区感兴趣的大学教育团体提供机会，这可能是北美最不研究的沙漠之一。现代IMR位于墨西哥边境和大型城市区域旁边，将成为生态调查和保护习惯的主要参与者。吉娃娃沙漠几乎没有区域，无法无限制地进入实地研究和教育的地方。 IMR提供了一个急需的场所，用于在大多数不受干扰的地面和水生环境中进行此类活动。这个新的清洁实验室将提高当前研究人员和学生项目的效率。此外，新实验室将提高IMRS更好地为研究人员，教育和外展人员提供服务的能力。 UTEP是IMR是其主要的现场投资设施，是科学技术中代表性不足的西班牙裔人的外国教育者。大约25,000名的入学人数包括超过72％的西班牙裔学生，其中大多数女性。参与IMRS活动的教师和未来的教师将对参加教室的K-12学生的科学能力产生重大影响，并应增加选择在高等教育水平上进入科学学科的少数族裔学生的兴趣。新的设施的改进将使UTEP的IMR能够通过提供所需的清洁实验室空间并满足R1研究工艺的需求来服务和增加对奇瓦瓦沙漠研究感兴趣的人的能力。 https://www.utep.edu/indio/this Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。