Establishing an Undergraduate Sedimentology Laboratory in Central Connecticut for Paleoenvironmental, Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Teaching & Research

在康涅狄格州中部建立本科沉积学实验室，用于古环境、古海洋学和古气候教学

• 批准号: 9750902
• 负责人: Suzanne O'Connell
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: Wesleyan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-15 至 1999-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Undergraduate; Sedimentology; Laboratory; Central

This project addresses the following problems: (1) there are no automated particle-size analysis facilities in Southern New England (SNE), (2) students in Earth & Environmental Science classes are not exposed to modern laboratory data-collection techniques, (3) the Sedimentology Laboratory course should have a coherent semester-long focus, and (4) more undergraduate research opportunities are needed. This project purchases four pieces of equipment to establish a modern sedimentological facility for teaching and research in a central SNE location and develops a focused sedimentology laboratory course. Letters describing the new facility are sent to all schools with earth science/geology departments within a 150-mile radius, and a focused laboratory course with new laboratory exercises is developed. Undergraduate students doing research in sedimentology at the university are primarily women and minorities, both of which are currently underrepresented in the earth sciences. Researchers from SNE have access to a new generation of particle-size analyzer and through it the opportunity to investigate paleoenvironmental changes. Students have more hands-on exposure to data collection, analysis, and problem solving.

该项目解决了以下问题：（1）没有自动化的粒度分析设施在南部新英格兰（SNE），（2）学生在地球环境科学类没有接触到现代实验室数据收集技术，（3）沉积学实验室课程应该有一个连贯的学期长的重点，（4）更多的本科生研究的机会是必要的。 该项目购买了四件设备，以便在SNE的中心位置建立一个现代化的沉积学教学和研究设施，并开发一个重点沉积学实验室课程。 描述新设施的信件被发送到150英里半径内所有拥有地球科学/地质学系的学校，并开发了一个有重点的实验室课程，其中包括新的实验室练习。 在该大学从事沉积学研究的本科生主要是妇女和少数民族，这两类学生目前在地球科学领域的代表性不足。 SNE的研究人员可以使用新一代的粒度分析仪，并通过它有机会调查古环境变化。 学生有更多的动手接触数据收集，分析和解决问题。