Discovering Hydrology: Development of Interdisciplinary Labs for All Academic Level

水文科学正在成为众多学科中一个令人兴奋和至关重要的方面。它为学生提供了独特的机会，让他们了解地球科学、其他自然科学、数学和工程是如何通过基本原理联系在一起的。然而，在传统的地球科学和土木工程部门中，缺乏标准的水文仪器用于教学，这是广泛实施现役实验室的一个非常现实的障碍。该项目创建了实践水文学实验室，使学生能够在地球科学和工程教育的所有层面上发现基本的物理和化学概念。以问题为基础的实地实验室可以为学生提供一个环境，让他们整合从观察中获得的定量和定性知识，并在环境和地质系统的动态方面与跨学科的同事合作。该项目的目的是在四年的学习中建立科学知识和解决问题的信心。新设备提供了发展这些实验室所需的关键仪器。每年有1600多名学生受到这一项目的影响。新设备实现了向加强本科生量化和跨学科环境教育这一更大目标迈出的重要一步。研究成果包括：(1)在地质学和土木工程学会全国会议上介绍实验室的发展和实施情况；(2)介绍使用廉价模型含水层的初级实验室的手稿。*

Hydrologic science is emerging as an exciting and crucial dimension of numerous academic disciplines. It provides unique opportunities for students to discover how geoscience, the other natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering are linked by fundamental principles. However, the lack of availability of standard hydrologic instrumentation for instruction within traditional geoscience and civil engineering departments constitutes a very real barrier to widespread implementation of active laboratories. This project creates hands-on hydrology laboratories that enable students to discover fundamental physical and chemical concepts at all levels of geoscience and engineering education. Problem-based field laboratories can provide a setting for students to integrate quantitative and qualitative knowledge gained from observations and to work together with colleagues across disciplines on dynamic aspects of environmental and geologic systems. The program is designed to build scientific knowledge and confidence in problem solving over the 4 years of study. The new equipment provides the critical instrumentation needed for development of these laboratories. More than 1 ,600 students per year are affected by this project. The new equipment fulfills an important step toward the larger goal of enhancing quantitative and interdisciplinary environmental education for undergraduates. Products from research include (1) presentations describing laboratory development and implementation at geology and civil engineering society national meetings and (2) a manuscript describing an introductory-level laboratory using an inexpensive model aquifer. *