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

REU 网站：威廉玛丽学院的跨学科分水岭研究

• 批准号: 0243751
• 负责人: Randolph Chambers
• 金额: $ 17.88万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2006-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243751&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Watershed; Studies

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.

该 REU 站点将创建一个夏季研究计划，涵盖在校园环境现场实验室进行的流域科学范围。 每年，来自全国各地的八名优秀本科生和威廉玛丽学院的两名优秀本科生将被选拔参加由环境地质学、生物学、社会学和经济学教师指导的学生研究项目。 这群学生将与 W&M 教师导师合作，确定流域土地利用变化对科学和社会经济背景的影响。 学生将完成关于占地 16 公顷的 Lane Matoaka（弗吉尼亚州最古老的人造蓄水池）以及学院拥有财产的两个流域的溪流和相关高地的研究项目。 对两个流域当前水文地质和生态状况的调查将通过确定溪流流量特征和对暴风雨的响应、水质的空间变化、全湖水、沉积物和养分的预算以及流域水生和陆地部分的人口/群落结构来完成。 由于流域系统的状况是土地利用历史变化的结果，因此将利用对居民对发展、环境保护、水和产权的看法的社会学和经济检验来确定人口和市场强制功能的当前方向和强度。 了解威廉斯堡殖民地地区的详细历史将有助于制定流域土地利用变化的时间表，作为分析流域结构和功能的背景。