Undergraduate Laboratory Improvement for Earth System Science and Global Change

理科本科教育 科学 和工程，非科学专业的学生必须 发展，使所有学生接触所需的工具 掌握关键和新兴的科学问题。1991年 亚利桑那大学开始了为期两个学期的课程 介绍全球变化，教非科学专业关于 地球系统。这门课教授基础科学 全球问题和挑战方面的原则 面对科学家、决策者和公民。这 建议提供所需的计算机设备， 实施我们开发的实验室练习， 正在继续改善。除了这门入门课程， 全球变化、遥感和 水文学将使用计算机实验室， 扩大实验室经验。这种多学科 教学工作是亚利桑那大学的一部分， 致力于研究全球变化。

Undergraduate science education for students majoring in science and engineering, and students who are non-science majors must evolve to bring all students in contact with the tools needed to grasp critical and emerging scientific issues. In 1991 the University of Arizona started a two-semester sequence Introduction to Global Change to teach non-science majors about the earth system. The course teaches basic scientific principles in the context of global problems and challenges facing scientists, policy makers and citizens alike. This proposal provides for the computer equipment needed to fully implement the laboratory exercises that we have developed and are continuing to improve. Besides this introductory course, undergraduate classes in global change, remote sensing, and hydrology will use the computer laboratory to enhance and expand their laboratory experiences. This multidisciplinary teaching effort is part of the University of Arizona's commitment to the study of global change.