Applied Environmental Problem-Solving: New Approaches and Techniques for Undergraduate Teaching Faculty

9353978 Smardon的五大湖研究联盟建议沉浸在为期3周的夏季实习，演示环境问题的解决作为一种有效的教学策略，以激发本科生对环境科学的兴趣20名本科教师。这种模式已被证明是有效的，在夏季实习的本科环境科学教师的两年制和四年制大学，作为实习的结果，成功地将解决环境问题的课程到他们的课程。 本科教师参与者学习环境分析技术，并为安大略湖污染港口的假设开发项目编写环境影响报告。 由于他们接触到五大湖研究界为了解和解决环境问题而开发的新的创新理论概念和技术，与会者将把解决环境问题纳入其本国机构的课程。根据五大湖的经验，专题将包括群落生态学中级联营养相互作用和颗粒大小谱的理论和应用;确定沉积物和鱼类中有毒化学品浓度的分析方法;以及使用微型计算机进行大型湖泊系统的质量平衡和生物能量学建模。通过为一个现实的项目编制环境影响说明，这些技术将被纳入总体环境分析和解决问题的办法。 实习的参与者将返回他们的家乡机构，扩大和更新的专业技能和新的战略，方法和技术，以改善本科教育和解决当地社区的环境问题。 ***

9353978 Smardon The Great Lakes Research Consortium proposes to immerse 20 undergraduate faculty in a 3-week summer practicum that demonstrates environmental problem-solving as an effective teaching strategy to stimulate undergraduates' interest in environmental science. This model has proven to be effective during a summer practicum for undergraduate environmental science teachers of two and four year colleges who, as a result of the practicum, successfully incorporated environmental problem solving curriculum into their courses. Undergraduate faculty participants learn environmental analysis techniques and prepare environmental impact statements for a hypothetical development project in a contaminated harbor of Lake Ontario. As they are being exposed to new innovative theoretical concepts and techniques developed by the Great Lakes research community to understand and solve environmental problems, participants will integrate environmental problem-solving into curricula at their home institutions. Special topics, based on the Great Lakes experience, will include the theories and applications of cascading trophic interactions and particle-size spectra in community ecology; analytical methods for determining toxic chemical concentrations in sediments and fishes; and the use of microcomputers for mass balance and bioenergetics modeling of large lake systems. Through preparation of environmental impact statements for a realistic project, these techniques will be integrated into the overall environmental analysis and problem-solving approach. Participants in the practicum will return to their home institutions with expanded and updated professional skills and new strategies, methods and techniques for improving undergraduate education and addressing environmental problems in local communities. ***