Great Lakes Research Consortium Practicum in Applied Environmental Problem-Solving: New Approaches and Techniquesfor Undergraduate Teaching Faculty

五大湖研究联盟应用环境问题解决实践：本科教学人员的新方法和技术

• 批准号: 9752783
• 负责人: Richard Smardon
• 金额: $ 7.56万
• 依托单位: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Great; Lakes; Research; Consortium; Practicum

The goals of the Great Lakes Consortium Summer Practicum in Applied Environmental Problem-Solving are to encourage participants to revise or create new multidisciplinary environmental science courses based on applied environmental problem solving; and to expose participants to innovative new theoretical and practical techniques being used in the Great Lakes basin and to introduce faculty to involved scientists. The project theme--environmental impact analysis--ties together the methods necessary for analyzing and solving environmental problems. The project also addresses the gap existing between the availability of up-to-date information about a major national resource--the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ecosystem--and what is currently taught at the undergraduate level. The practicum is familiarizing participants with related developments in environmental analysis; cascading trophic dynamics, particle-size spectrum theory, and endocrine system-disrupting pollutants; and environmental sampling, analytical methods, and mass balance/bioenergetics modeling of toxic chemical dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Scientists with the Great Lakes Research Consortium who have made significant contributions in these fields are leading each of the practicum's modules. Although the Great Lakes are used as an example, the theories, methods and models learned are applicable anywhere. The three week practicum in June 1998, combines field/lab experience, classroom instruction and skills development exercises in four course modules: I) Great Lakes Ecosystem Science/Issues and Lake Ontario Environments; 2) Techniques for Analyzing Toxic Chemicals Commonly Found in the Great Lakes, 3) Ecosystem Modeling with Spreadsheets: Mass Balance/Bioenergetics 4) Writing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Developing Problem-Solving Curricula for Undergraduates.

五大湖应用环境问题解决联合会夏季实习的目标是鼓励参与者根据应用环境问题解决方法修订或创建新的多学科环境科学课程;并使参与者接触五大湖流域正在使用的创新理论和实践技术，并向参与的科学家介绍教师。项目主题-环境影响分析-将分析和解决环境问题所需的方法联系在一起。该项目还解决了关于一项主要国家资源-大湖区-圣劳伦斯生态系统-的最新信息的可得性与目前本科一级所教内容之间存在的差距。实习是熟悉参与者在环境分析的相关发展;级联营养动力学，粒度谱理论，和内分泌系统干扰污染物;和环境采样，分析方法，和质量平衡/水生生态系统中有毒化学动力学的生物能量学建模。在这些领域做出重大贡献的五大湖研究联盟的科学家正在领导每个实习模块。虽然以五大湖为例，但学到的理论、方法和模型在任何地方都适用。1998年6月为期三周的实习，将实地/实验室经验、课堂教学和技能发展练习结合在四个课程模块中：I）五大湖生态系统科学/问题和安大略湖环境; 2）分析五大湖中常见有毒化学品的技术; 3）使用活页的生态系统建模：质量平衡/生物能量学4）编写环境影响报告（EIS）和开发解决问题的课程。