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，包括在校园环境实地实验室进行的流域科学的范围。 每年，来自全国各地的八名优秀本科生和来自威廉和玛丽的两名本科生将被选中参加由环境地质学、生物学、社会学和经济学教师指导的学生研究项目。 学生的队列将与W M教师导师工作，以确定在科学和社会经济背景下不断变化的流域土地利用的影响。 学生将在16公顷的Lane Matoaka（弗吉尼亚州最古老的人工蓄水池）以及学院拥有财产的两个流域的溪流和相关高地上完成研究项目。 目前的水文地质和生态状况的调查，在两个流域将完成确定流排放特性和暴雨流量的反应，水质的空间变化，全湖的水，沉积物和营养物的预算，以及人口/社区结构在水生和陆地部分的流域。 由于流域系统的状况是土地利用历史变化的结果，因此将对居民对发展、环境保护、水和财产权的看法进行社会和经济审查，以确定人口和市场强迫作用的当前方向和强度。 访问丰富详细的历史的殖民Willingsburg地区将允许开发一个时间轴的变化，在流域土地利用的背景下，分析流域的结构和功能。

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.