REU Site: An Integrated Assessment of Physical, Ecological, and Socio-economic Aspects of a Watershed System

托莱多大学伊利湖中心的REU机会将使学生有机会与教师合作，利用莫米河流域作为测试案例，解决具有全球意义的环境问题。为期十周的暑期课程将使学生了解莫米流域的环境退化情况，这种退化所涉及的主要环境和社会进程，以及相关的政策/法律问题。学生将来自美国各地，特别关注来自大学的学生，这些大学主要服务于科学领域代表性不足的群体。然后，学生将与教师导师组成小组，进行一个研究项目，该项目将评估环境退化/土地利用变化，人口/社会因素或特定问题的政策影响的特定方面。研究经历的最后一周将包括一个学生项目研讨会，学生将在研讨会上展示他们的研究成果，并讨论统一他们研究工作的总体过程。专业嘉宾将出席这些会议，并概述环境/政策研究培训对现实世界职业的重要性。此外，这些社区合作伙伴将评估个别项目以及整个计划。

This REU opportunity at the University of Toledo's Lake Erie Center will give students the opportunity to collaborate with faculty on an environmental problem of global significance by using the Maumee River watershed as a test case. A ten-week summer program will expose students to the environmental degradation of the Maumee watershed, the major environmental and social processes involved in that degradation, and the related policy/legal issues. Students will be drawn from all over the United States, with particular attention paid to students from universities which primarily serve groups underrepresented in science. Students will then be teamed with a faculty mentor to conduct a research project that will evaluate a specific aspect of environmental degradation/land use change, demographic/social factors, or the policy implications of a particular problem. The final week of the research experience will consist of a student project symposium in which students will present their research results and discuss the overarching processes that unify their research efforts. Guest professionals will attend these meetings and will also provide an overview of the significance of environmental/policy research training for real-world careers. In addition, these community partners will evaluate individual projects as well as the overall program.