ICP for an Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Program at Colorado College

科罗拉多学院跨学科环境科学项目 ICP

• 批准号: 9352208
• 负责人: Nathan Bower
• 金额: $ 4.28万
• 依托单位: Colorado College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-05-01 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9352208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICP; Interdisciplinary; Environmental; Science; Program

Colorado College proposes to strengthen offerings in a new interdisciplinary environmental science program by adding an inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (ICP) to the current equipment used to teach environmental courses in the chemistry, geology, economics, and biology departments. Faculty in a variety of departments have created new courses and improved existing courses to meet student demand for environmental science education. The next step in providing a substantive curriculum for these students is to strengthen the quantitative analysis components of environmental course offerings. The proposed ICP, because of its multicomponent analysis capabilities, is particularly effective for involving students in developing and evaluating various alternative models,as well as providing quantitative data. The ICP will be used by students in environmental courses in chemistry, biology, geology, and economics to analyze air and water for elemental pollutants, and plants and soils for nutrients and toxic metals, as well as investigate the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in food webs.Colorado College faculty believe strongly that the sciences should be taught as a laboratory or field experience in which models and theories are created to explain observations, and that the best laboratory teaching experiences contain a significant component of original research that allows students to become involved in the practice of science. Not only are students prepared for possible teaching, graduate, or industrial work, but non-science majors are exposed to the processes by which scientists arrive at the conclusions that impact all of our lives. Based on past experiences with other instruments at Colorado College we expect the ICP to further enhance the interaction between departments, both within the natural sciences and across to the social sciences.

科罗拉多学院建议加强在一个新的产品 跨学科的环境科学计划，增加了一个 电感耦合等离子体光谱仪（ICP）的电流 用于教授化学环境课程的设备， 地质学、经济学和生物学系。教师在A 各部门都创造了新的课程，并改善 现有课程配合学生对环保的需求 科学教育的提供实质性服务的下一步 这些学生的课程是为了加强量化 分析环境课程的组成部分。的 提出了ICP，因为它的多组分分析 能力，特别是有效地让学生 开发和评估各种替代模型，以及 提供定量数据。ICP将由 学生在化学，生物学， 地质学和经济学来分析空气和水的元素 污染物，植物和土壤的养分和有毒物质 重金属的生物累积性，以及 科罗拉多学院的教师们坚信， 科学应该作为实验室或领域来教授， 经验，模型和理论被创造出来解释 观察，最好的实验室教学经验 包含原创研究的重要组成部分， 让学生参与科学实践。 学生们不仅为可能的教学做好了准备， 或工业工作，但非科学专业的学生接触到的 科学家得出结论的过程， 影响我们所有人的生活。 根据以往与其他 仪器在科罗拉多学院，我们希望ICP进一步 加强各部门之间的互动， 自然科学和社会科学。