The Bigger Picture: A Project-Based Course on Environmental Geophysics and Geochemistry

大局观：环境地球物理和地球化学项目课程

• 批准号: 9555230
• 负责人: Carolyn Ruppel
• 金额: $ 4.7万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-01 至 2000-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bigger; Picture; Project; Based; Course

A project-based course in environmental field methods will be developed for students in the second year of earth science programs, creating a new context for students' first encounter with more complex, and in particular, more quantitative science topics. By teaching geophysical and geochemical field methods through a sequence of in-depth studies of current environmental problems, presented in their historical and social context, we hope to keep students, especially women and minorities, in the quantitative science pipeline and make clear their own potential for such work. Students will work through environmental "case-studies", or project modules, on topics such as salt water intrusion in coastal Florida, uranium mining remediation in the Navajo Nation, and eutrophication in a Georgia estuary. Students will process a subset of the data, combine data sets, analyze and interpret the data, define limits to their interpretations, and make and justify policy decisions. The course will be built around six or seven sequential modules, with each module designed to follow a classroom introduction to the relevant field methods. We plan to add supporting materials to these modules so that they can also `e used as individual case studies in environmental geology, hydrology, geophysics, and geochemistry courses, and will be in a form that can be disseminated on the WWW, CD-rom, and hardcopy. This work will be a collaborative effort by four faculty at disparate institutions (College of William and Mary, Navajo Community College, and Georgia Tech). Each of us will design one or two modules, working with undergraduates at our home institutions. We will collaboratively review and revise each module as we develop the course as a whole. Thus students will encounter a wider range of both geographic settings and cultural contexts for environmental problems than is currently found in qua ntitative geoscience courses.

将为地球科学课程第二年的学生开发环境领域方法的项目课程，为学生第一次遇到更复杂，特别是更定量的科学主题创造新的背景。 通过对当前环境问题的一系列深入研究，在其历史和社会背景下教授地球物理和地球化学场方法，我们希望让学生，特别是妇女和少数民族，在定量科学管道中，并明确他们自己的潜力， 等 工作 学生将通过 环境“案例研究”或项目模块，主题包括佛罗里达沿海地区的作为盐水入侵、纳瓦霍族的铀矿开采补救以及格鲁吉亚河口的富营养化。学生将处理数据的一个子集，联合收割机数据集，分析和解释数据，定义其解释的限制，并制定和证明政策决策。该课程将围绕六个或七个连续模块构建，每个模块旨在遵循相关领域方法的课堂介绍。 我们计划在这些单元中增加辅助材料，以便它们也可以作为环境地质学、水文学、地球物理学和地球化学课程中的个别案例研究，并将以可以在万维网、光盘和硬拷贝上传播的形式提供。 这项工作将是四个教师在不同的机构（威廉和玛丽，纳瓦霍社区学院，和格鲁吉亚技术学院）的合作努力。我们每个人都将设计一个或 两个模块，与本科生在我们的工作 家机构。 我们将共同审查和修改每个模块，因为我们开发的过程作为一个整体。因此，学生将遇到更广泛的地理环境和文化背景的环境问题比目前发现的定量地球科学课程。