Enhancing Cross-Disciplinary Learning Limnological Research in an Environmental Studies Program at a Liberal Arts College

加强文学院环境研究项目中的跨学科学习湖泊学研究

• 批准号: 9809765
• 负责人: John Garver
• 金额: $ 4.55万
• 依托单位: Union College
• 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: 1998-09-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9809765&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Cross; Disciplinary; Learning; Limnological

GARVER 9809765 The Environmental Studies (ES) Program at Union College has a program-wide limnological focus, the Ballston Lake Initiative, which is designed to foster interdisciplinary teaching and cooperation among departments. This Initiative is scientifically sound, provides interesting and challenging problems, and uses a study area that is convenient to campus. This award addresses two fundamental issues of curricular development at Union College: lack of interdisciplinary teaching and research, and lack of a unified focus for the ES Program. The Initiative is designed to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration among faculty who, for the most part, have not been involved in interdisciplinary teaching or research. The Initiative gives the ES program focus by integrating a common limnological theme into many of the ES course offerings. By providing a framework for interaction, the Initiative will bring together faculty with a wide range of expertise and interests, thereby cultivating a more integrated approach to teaching. The award offers the best chance of getting the faculty to interact and to inject this common limnological focus into the ES curriculum is through a coordinated summer research program in which student projects are mentored by faculty from two or more academic departments. Faculty and student workshops are intended to maximize interaction between the faculty, and a winter seminar series is designed to give the program participants needed exposure to other scientific, political, and social aspects of lakes. The Ballston Lake Initiative focuses on Ballston Lake as an environmental system that has evolved through time. The Initiative includes an understanding of the formation of the lake basin, post-glacial sediment record geochemistry of spring waters, record of climate change in lake sediments, wetland ecology, predator and prey relationships between the fauna, recreational use, historical land use and housing development, and watershed hydrology. To accomplish the goal of fostering interdisciplinary teaching and cooperation between departments, six broadly defined interdisciplinary projects have been identified: 1) lake and wetlands flora and fauna; 2) watershed hydrology; 3) hydrology and chemistry of springs and spring communities; 4) lake sediment record in relation to lake evolution, climate change and land use; 5) historical land use, including development of camps and issues associated with water use; 6) monitoring instrumentation for climate, and lake water, and springs. Collectively, these projects could involve collaboration and interaction between the departments of Geology, Biology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Anthropology, and Sociology.

Garver 9809765 联合学院的环境研究（ES）计划有一个计划范围的湖沼学重点，Ballston湖倡议，旨在促进跨学科教学和部门之间的合作。 这项倡议是科学合理的，提供有趣和具有挑战性的问题，并使用方便校园的学习区。 该奖项解决了联合学院课程发展的两个基本问题：缺乏跨学科的教学和研究，以及缺乏对ES计划的统一关注。 该倡议旨在鼓励教师之间的跨学科合作，在大多数情况下，没有参与跨学科的教学或研究。 该计划通过将一个共同的湖沼学主题融入许多ES课程，使ES计划成为重点。 通过提供一个互动框架，该倡议将汇集具有广泛专业知识和兴趣的教师，从而培养一种更综合的教学方法。 该奖项提供了最好的机会，让教师互动，并将这种共同的湖沼学重点注入到ES课程是通过一个协调的夏季研究计划，其中学生项目由来自两个或两个以上的学术部门的教师指导。 教师和学生研讨会旨在最大限度地提高教师之间的互动，冬季研讨会系列旨在让计划参与者需要接触湖泊的其他科学，政治和社会方面。 鲍尔斯顿湖倡议的重点是鲍尔斯顿湖作为一个随着时间的推移而演变的环境系统。 该倡议包括了解湖盆的形成、冰川后沉积物记录的泉水沃茨的地球化学、湖泊沉积物中的气候变化记录、湿地生态、动物群之间的捕食者和被捕食者关系、娱乐用途、历史上的土地使用和住房开发以及流域水文学。 为了实现促进跨学科教学和系际合作的目标，确定了六个广泛定义的跨学科项目：1）湖泊和湿地植物群和动物群; 2）流域水文学; 3）泉水和泉水群落的水文和化学; 4）与湖泊演变、气候变化和土地利用相关的湖泊沉积物记录; 5）历史土地利用，包括营地的发展和与水资源利用相关的问题; 6）气候、湖水和泉水的监测仪器。 总的来说，这些项目可能涉及地质学，生物学，化学，土木工程，电气工程，人类学和社会学部门之间的合作和互动。