Development of an Integrated Undergraduate Environmental Instrumentation Laboratory for Environmental Geology and Biology

该项目资助购买实地和实验室设备，以支持该大学的环境教育。这些设备构成了环境仪器实验室（EIL）的核心，供本科生在环境地质学和生物学的综合课程中使用，也供两个系的学士学位论文研究使用。环境影响评估课程提供环境调查中常用的复杂分析工具的实践经验。本科学生学习非生物和生物分析领域和实验室方法。这些工具用于特定地点的特征、评估和恢复/管理方面。综合这些调查结果，为所研究地点的长期监测提供了基础，从而为需要生态系统水平分析的环境调查提供了一种现实世界的方法。

This project is funding the purchase of field and laboratory equipment to support environmental education at the university. The equipment forms the core of the Environmental Instrumentation Lab (EIL) for use by undergraduates in integrated Environmental Geology and Biology courses and for B.S. Thesis research in both departments. The EIL provides hands-on experience with the sophisticated analytical tools commonly used in environmental investigations. Undergraduate students learn both abiotic and biotic analytical field and laboratory methods. These tools are used in the characterization, assessment, and restoration/management aspects of particular sites. Results from these investigations are synthesized to provide the basis for long-term monitoring of the sites studied, thus providing a real-world approach to environmental investigations that require ecosystem level analyses.