Operation and Maintenance Support to Enhance Research and Highly Qualified Personnel Training at the Queen's University Biological Station

运营和维护支持，以加强女王大学生物站的研究和高素质人员培训

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00298
• 负责人: Lougheed, Stephen
• 金额: $ 10.35万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616627
• 关键词: Operation; Maintenance; Support; Enhance; Research

The Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) has been at the forefront of university-based training and research in ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental studies for over 7 decades. QUBS-based work has produced > 300 undergraduate and graduate theses, and > 1000 peer-reviewed papers, many in leading science journals. Its two campuses provide lab space, field & lab equipment, classrooms, library, research collections, with accommodation for 130 and a staffed kitchen. Research at QUBS spans many fields, from satellite-based remote sensing, through studies of impacts of climate change or toxins on the environment, to work on invasive and at risk species. Users come from Queen’s University, from many other Canadian universities, NGOs and governmental agencies, and from institutions from the USA, Europe, China, and Latin America. QUBS Elbow Lake Education Centre provides science outreach and public education, with emphasis on work done at the Station. User fees, Queen’s contributions, and donations support maintenance and basic logistics, but QUBS lacks funding for any dedicated scientific staff. We thus request NSERC funding for a PhD-level Science Coordinator and a Collections and Data Manager for 2 years to address this critical deficit. The Science Coordinator will organize workshops, facilitate collaborations and digital communication, run public seminar series, and help supervise student interns and HQP. The Collections & Data Manager will help digitize all 144,000 specimens in our plant collection, catalogue animal specimens and tissues, digitize data from > 50 years of previous research, monitor our NSERC-funded climate station network, augment our GIS data, and ensure that all data are publically available on our data portal. Our 8 co-applicants come from 4 different universities, with collaborators from > 25 organizations worldwide. Co-applicants have exemplary records of HQP-driven research, and collectively have published > 300 peer-reviewed papers in the last 5 years alone. Research and HQP training programs enabled by this funding will address key issues in ecology and environmental science. Increased usership will assist with longer-term financial sustainability of these positions. Programs, databases, and scientific infrastructure created will enable training of > 175 HQP over a 5-year period, and will have enduring impacts on research and training at QUBS and for the larger science community via open access data archives.

皇后大学生物站（QUB）一直是大学生态学，保护和环境研究的大学培训研究的最前沿，基于7年的工作已经产生了> 300个本科生和研究生。审查了许多领先的科学期刊的论文。来自加拿大的许多加拿大大学，非政府组织和政府机构的气候变化或毒品的毒素。和公共教育，女王的捐款和捐款支持维护和基本后勤解决这个关键的赤字。组织，从> 50的数据中进行数字化数据，并监视我们的NSERC资助的气候站网络，增强我们的GIS GIS数据，并确保在我们的数据门户网站上公开可用仅在过去的五年中，以HQP驱动的研究为模范记录，并在持续的五年中发表了> 300份同行评审的论文。 > 175 HQP在5年的BS和大型科学界通过开放访问数据档案。