Lake Watch:Undergraduate Students as Teachers of Satellite Imaging Among Volunteer Lake Monitors

生物科学（61）该项目正在开发一个跨学科课程，将联合国大学两个非常成功但目前独立的卓越领域结合在一起。湖泊监测计划（LLMP）是一个22年的资深计划，其中生活在NH湖泊的公民利益相关者收集水质数据，供UNH分析和存档。LLMP正在通过使用遥感和地理信息系统（GIS）进行增强，利用与地球，海洋和空间研究所（EOS）中的世界级设施相关的优势。我们正在招募一批UNH的志愿者，包括非科学专业的学生，参加这个项目，这个项目正在调整黑板项目，以连接湖志愿者和UNH的本科生。他们正在学习使用地理空间技术（GST）开发区域算法，从空间监测湖泊/流域，同时学习湖沼学和微生物生态学的理论和实践。我们正在通过适应盖亚十字路口项目的方法，让本科生担任外展教师，以培训GST的非专业监测员。这个“湖泊观察项目”通过假设驱动的合作学习来培养沟通，团队合作和批判性思维的技能。该项目增加了教师授权的本科生作为一种教学资源，并促进教师的无讲座教学的意识。它通过一个写作和口语密集的湖泊观察研讨会课程，产生了一个学生编写的资源手册和远程学习模式。正在评估这一模式的适用性，作为将湖泊/流域遥感引入其他领域的一种手段，包括K-12教室。

Biological Sciences (61)This project is developing an interdisciplinary curriculum bringing together two highly successful but currently separate areas of excellence at UNH. The Lakes Lay Monitoring Program (LLMP) is a 22-year veteran program wherein citizen stakeholders living on NH lakes collect water-quality data for analysis and archiving at UNH. The LLMP is being augmented with the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), drawing from strengths associated with a world-class facility housed in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS). We are recruiting a cohort of UNH sophomores, including non-science majors, to participate in the project which is adapting the Blackboard Project to connect lay lake volunteers and UNH undergraduates. They are learning to use the geo-spatial technologies (GST) to develop regional algorithms to monitor lake/watersheds from space, while learning theory and practice of limnology and microbial ecology. We are engaging the undergraduates as outreach teachers through adaptation of methods from the Gaia Crossroads Project to train the lay monitors in GST. This "Lake Watch Project" develops skills for communication, teamwork and critical thinking through hypothesis-driven, cooperative learning. The project increases faculty empowerment of undergraduates as a teaching resource and promotes faculty awareness of lecture-less teaching. It yields, through a writing- and speaking-intensive Lake Watch Seminar course, a student-prepared resource manual and a distance-learning model. The suitability of this model is being evaluated as a means of introducing lake/watershed remote sensing into other arenas, including K-12 classrooms.