REU Site: Interdisciplinary Watershed Studies at the College of William and Mary

这个REU网站将创建一个夏季研究计划，涵盖在校园环境实地实验室进行的分水岭科学的范围。每年，来自全国各地的八名优秀本科生和威廉和玛丽的两名本科生将被选为参与由环境地质学、生物学、社会学和经济学的教师指导的学生研究项目。这批学生将与W&Amm；M的教师导师合作，确定在科学和社会经济背景下改变分水岭土地使用的影响。学生们将完成关于16公顷的松安巷(弗吉尼亚州最古老的人工蓄水池)以及该学院拥有财产的两个流域的溪流和相关高地的研究项目。对两个流域目前的水文地质和生态状况的调查将通过确定河流流量特征和对暴雨的响应、水质的空间变化、整个湖泊的水、沉积物和营养物质的收支以及流域水生和陆地部分的人口/群落结构来完成。由于流域系统的现状是土地利用历史变化的结果，因此将通过对居民对发展、环境保护和水与产权的认识的社会学和经济学检查来确定当前人口和市场强迫功能的方向和强度。了解殖民地威廉斯堡地区丰富详细的历史将有助于制定分水岭土地利用变化的时间表，作为分析分水岭结构和功能的背景。

This REU Site will create a summer research program encompassing the scope of watershed science conducted at the campus environmental field laboratory. Each year eight outstanding undergraduates from across the country and two from William and Mary will be selected to participate in student research projects mentored by faculty in environmental geology, biology, sociology and economics. The cohort of students will work with W&M faculty mentors to determine the impacts of changing watershed land use in scientific and socio-economic contexts. Students will complete research projects on the 16-ha Lane Matoaka (the oldest man-made impoundment in Virginia) and in streams and associated uplands of the two watersheds in which the college owns property. Investigations of current hydrogeologic and ecological status in the two watersheds will be completed by determining stream discharge characteristics and responses to stormflows, spatial variation in water quality, lake-wide budgets for water, sediment and nutrients, and population/community structure in aquatic and terrestrial portions of the watersheds. Because the status of the watershed systems is the result of historical changes in land use, sociologic and economic examinations of residents' perception of development, environmental protection and water and property rights will be used to determine the current direction and strength of population and market forcing functions. Access to a richly detailed history of the Colonial Willliamsburg region will allow development of a timeline of changes in watershed land use as a context for analysis of watershed structure and function.