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

五大湖联盟应用环境问题解决暑期实习的目标是鼓励参与者根据应用环境问题解决修改或创建新的多学科环境科学课程；并向参与者展示在五大湖流域使用的创新的新理论和实践技术，并向参与其中的科学家介绍教员。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。该项目还解决了主要国家资源——大湖和圣湖的最新信息的可用性之间存在的差距。劳伦斯生态系统——以及目前本科阶段的教学内容。该实习使参与者熟悉环境分析的相关发展；级联营养动力学、粒径谱理论和内分泌系统干扰污染物；以及水生生态系统中有毒化学动力学的环境采样、分析方法和质量平衡/生物能量学建模。五大湖研究联盟的科学家们在这些领域做出了重大贡献，他们领导着实习的每个模块。虽然以五大湖为例，但学到的理论、方法和模式适用于任何地方。1998年6月为期三周的实习，结合了四个课程模块的实地/实验室经验，课堂教学和技能发展练习：1)大湖生态系统科学/问题和安大略湖环境；2)分析五大湖常见有毒化学物质的技术；3)用电子表格建立生态系统模型：质量平衡/生物能量学；4)撰写环境影响报告（EIS）并为本科生开发解决问题的课程。

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.