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

该项目资助购买现场和实验室设备，以支持大学的环境教育。 该设备构成了环境仪器实验室 (EIL) 的核心，供本科生在综合环境地质学和生物学课程以及理学士学位课程中使用。 两个部门的论文研究。 EIL 提供环境调查中常用的复杂分析工具的实践经验。 本科生学习非生物和生物分析领域以及实验室方法。 这些工具用于特定遗址的表征、评估和恢复/管理方面。 这些调查的结果被综合起来，为研究地点的长期监测提供基础，从而为需要生态系统水平分析的环境调查提供现实世界的方法。

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.