Field and Laboratory Equipment for an Undergraduate Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program in the Caribbean.

最近收购了一套核心的生态仪器， 使本系有可能扩大其高级课程， 以及扩大以学生为导向的研究项目的范围 它可以提供。 因此，这一发展项目构成了 一个正在进行的强调科学的大学计划。 该项目的具体影响是对本科教学， 生态学与环境科学。 在新的资源中， 提供给学生的是一个海洋学现场工具包，便携式 电导率/盐度计、溶解氧和生物氧 需水量计、岩芯取样器和电子土工试验室、记录 气象站、空气质量监测装置和先进的 用于研究环境样品的实验室设备， 进行更精确的分析。 这一改进将导致 更好的准备大学毕业生谁反过来会更好 能够在毕业后的专业水平。 的 特别是加勒比地区和热带美洲， 迫切需要训练有素的生态学家，以帮助阻止目前的灾难性 森林覆盖、土壤和生物资源等自然资源的丧失 多样性，并帮助科普这种损失的影响。

The recent acquisition of a core set of ecological instrumentation is making it possible for this Department to expand its upper-level courses as well as to widen the range of the student-oriented research projects it can offer. This development project thus forms an integral part of an ongoing University plan to emphasize the sciences. The specific impact of this project is on undergraduate instruction in Ecology and the Environmental Sciences. Among the new resources now available to the students are an oceanographic field kit, portable conductivity/salinity meter, dissolved oxygen and biological oxygen demand meter, core sampler and electronic soil testing lab, recording weather station, air quality monitoring devices, and sophisticated laboratory apparati for studying environmental samples brought in from the field for more exacting analysis. This improvement will result in a better prepared graduate of the University who in turn will be better able to perform at the professional level after graduation. The Caribbean area in particular and tropical America in general are in urgent need of trained ecologists to help stem the current catastrophic losses of such natural resources as forest cover, soils and biological diversity, and to help cope with the effects of such losses.