Operation and Maintenance Support for the Experimental Lakes Area

实验湖区运维支持

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00262
• 负责人: Xenopoulos, Marguerite
• 金额: $ 9.44万
• 依托单位: Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=642372
• 关键词: Operation; Maintenance; Support; Experimental; Lakes

Canada’s IISD-Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) is a unique, world-renowned field facility for freshwater research and training. Managed and operated by the charitable organization International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), IISD-ELA has been a global leader in conducting whole-ecosystem experiments. These experiments have been essential in shaping national and international environmental policy and understanding human impacts on freshwater. In this proposal we are requesting funds for the operation and maintenance of the IISD-ELA field station. IISD-ELA continues to be one of the few places in the world where an entire ecosystem can be manipulated without the influence of confounding variables (other human impacts). More than 50 whole ecosystem experiments have been completed at the ELA and these results have been used to inform countless policies on acid rain, eutrophication and mercury pollution among others. In addition ELA has one of the longest and most complete sets of data on hydrology, water quality and food web properties used to understand climate change. IISD-ELA has been used by researchers and their students from over 20 Canadian Universities. Over the years, countless international researchers from universities, domestic and international government agencies, and industry have based research projects at ELA. More importantly, IISD-ELA provides hands-on training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. Students become well-rounded environmental scientists who can conduct the highest-quality science of greatest value and relevance for healthy aquatic ecosystems and are able to lead new initiatives to evaluate and solve emerging problems on water.

加拿大 IISD 实验湖区 (IISD-ELA) 是一个独特的、世界知名的淡水研究和培训实地设施，由慈善组织国际可持续发展研究所 (IISD) 管理和运营，一直处于全球领先地位。这些实验对于制定国家和国际环境政策以及了解人类对淡水输送的影响至关重要。在本提案中，我们请求为 IISD-ELA 现场站的运营和维护提供资金。 IISD-ELA 仍然是世界上少数几个可以在不受混杂变量（其他人类影响）影响的情况下操纵整个生态系统的地方之一，ELA 已经完成了 50 多个完整生态系统实验，这些结果已经得到了证实。此外，ELA 还拥有用于了解气候变化的最长、最完整的水文、水质和食物网特性数据集之一。多年来，来自大学、国内外政府机构和行业的无数国际研究人员在 ELA 开展了研究项目。更重要的是，IISD-ELA 提供实践培训。为研究生和本科生提供机会。学生成为全面发展的环境科学家，能够开展对健康水生生态系统具有最大价值和相关性的最高质量的科学，并能够领导新的举措来评估和解决新出现的水问题。