Development of a Natural Resource Management Practicum

该奖项提供资金，为密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校自然资源学院林业、渔业和野生动物学院的高年级学生开发自然资源管理实习课程。 为了促进现场数据收集，该奖项将用于采购便携式电子现场数据记录仪。 这些现场数据记录仪将由具有林业、渔业和野生动物背景的学生团队使用，以收集真实土地上的生物数据。 然后，这些数据将被下载到现有的便携式计算机，用于输入生物模拟模型，以分析和评估针对该土地提出的不同自然资源管理制度。 拟议的实习将把年轻的专业人​​员聚集在户外环境中，在不同学科的资源限制和目标下，他们将制定管理多种自然资源的综合计划，并作为一个多学科团队一起工作。 此外，本课程将作为反馈机制，学校可以使用该机制来评估自然资源计划的质量。 受资助者正在将该奖项与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

This award provides funds to develop a natural resource management practicum for upper division students enrolled in the School of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In order to facilitate field data collection, this award will be used for the acquisition of portable electronic field data recorders. These field data recorders will be used by a team of students with backgrounds in forestry, fisheries and wildlife to gather biological data on a real tract of land. These data will then be downloaded to existing portable computers for input into biological simulation models to analyze and evaluate different proposed natural resource management regimes for the tract of land. The proposed practicum will bring together young professionals in an outdoor setting where they will be expected to develop an integrated plan for the management of multiple natural resources, under various disciplinary resource constraints and objectives, and work together as a multi- disciplinary team. Additionally, this course will serve as a feedback mechanism which can be used by the School to assess the quality of the natural resource program. The grantee is matching this award with funds from non-Federal sources.