REU: Engaging Undergraduate Students in an Interdisciplinary Watershed Research Project

REU：让本科生参与跨学科分水岭研究项目

• 批准号: 9820605
• 负责人: Kenneth Sargent
• 金额: $ 10.79万
• 依托单位: Furman University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9820605&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Engaging; Undergraduate; Students; Interdisciplinary

9820605SargentThis project will provide an interdisciplinary summer research experience for a total of ten majors in geology, biology, and chemistry. The participants will be rising juniors and seniors with about half coming from Furman University and about half from other institutions. The research will focus on an interdisciplinary study of water quality in the Enoree River Basin of South Carolina. Students will be divided into interdisciplinary teams and study the watershed of an Enoree River tributary. The student teams will study land use patterns, hydrology, water chemistry, microbiology, and fish populations in order to determine water quality of the watershed. Student teams will interpret the relationships between the water quality parameters themselves. The goal of the project is to introduce students to the process of scientific problem solving and the interdisciplinary teamwork needed to solve environmental problems. As the summer progresses, student teams will be encouraged to become increasingly independent from the faculty team.

这个项目将为总共十个地质学、生物学和化学专业的学生提供跨学科的暑期研究体验。参与者将是正在崛起的大三和大四学生，其中约一半来自福曼大学，约一半来自其他机构。这项研究将集中于对南卡罗来纳州埃诺里河流域水质的跨学科研究。学生们将被分成跨学科小组，研究埃诺里河支流的分水岭。学生团队将研究土地利用模式、水文学、水化学、微生物学和鱼类种群，以确定流域的水质。学生团队将自己解释水质参数之间的关系。该项目的目标是向学生介绍科学解决问题的过程以及解决环境问题所需的跨学科团队合作。随着暑假的进行，学生团队将被鼓励越来越独立于教职员工团队。