Development of an On-Campus Environmental/Hydrological Laboratory Site

开发校内环境/水文实验室场地

• 批准号: 9950260
• 负责人: Virginia Peterson
• 金额: $ 5.59万
• 依托单位: Western Carolina University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Campus; Environmental; Hydrological; Laboratory

The Cullowhee Creek Environmental Field Station Project adapts practices that involve active investigations in local environmental systems using investigative experiences, collection and analyses of quantitative data, expansion of interdisciplinary opportunities, and emphasis on connections between theory and application. This project implements investigative science using a variety of methods to stimulate student research questions including that developed by the NSF-sponsored NCL Nest project. This thematic approach in labs increases the student's ability to make connections and increases crossdisciplinary interactions between programs by the development of an on-campus environmental laboratory site, the Cullowhee Creek Environmental Field Station. Students adapt a variety of geophysical and hydrological tools to characterize and monitor earth materials, and ground and surface water systems. The site includes wells, a weather station, and a stream gage and is characterized by using hydrological and geophysical methods. Geophysical equipment will include resistivity, seismic, and ground penetrating radar, three techniques used in the environmental industry. Four courses, Environmental Geology, Soils & Hydrology, General Physics and Geophysics, ranging from introductory to advanced, are restructured to include integrated, site-based laboratories. The site is used in other courses and student research projects. A field-station website allows dissemination and evaluation of data and results are presented at meetings and published in the Journal of Geological Education and the American Journal of Physics.

Cullowhee Creek 环境现场站项目采用的做法包括利用调查经验、收集和分析定量数据、扩展跨学科机会以及强调理论与应用之间的联系，对当地环境系统进行积极调查。 该项目使用各种方法来实施调查科学，以激发学生的研究问题，包括由 NSF 赞助的 NCL Nest 项目开发的方法。 这种实验室中的主题方法通过开发校内环境实验室站点——Cullowhee Creek 环境现场站，提高了学生建立联系的能力，并增加了项目之间的跨学科互动。 学生采用各种地球物理和水文工具来表征和监测地球材料以及地下水和地表水系统。该场地包括水井、气象站和流量计，并采用水文和地球物理方法进行表征。地球物理设备将包括电阻率、地震和探地雷达，这三种技术用于环境行业。环境地质学、土壤与水文学、普通物理学和地球物理学这四门课程（从入门到高级）经过重组，纳入了综合的现场实验室。该网站用于其他课程和学生研究项目。现场站网站允许传播和评估数据，结果在会议上提出并发表在《地质教育杂志》和《美国物理学杂志》上。