Patterns and Processes in Natural and Managed Fluvial and Riparian Ecosystems

普拉茨堡州立大学(PSU)地球与环境科学中心(CEES)和W.H.矿工农业研究所寻求继续为12名在自然科学方面接受广泛学术培训并对生态系统研究有多方面兴趣的本科生提供为期8周的暑期研究经验。我们的主要目标是通过参与纽约东北部小查兹河分水岭自然和管理的河流和河岸生态系统的持续跨学科研究，促进我们的学生研究人员的专业发展。REU的学员将以个人和小组的形式与该项目的教师密切合作，研究项目包括地表水和地下水水文地质学、地球化学(营养循环)、水生无脊椎动物、河岸和湿地生态学。PSU和Miner研究所的计算机和实验室资源将用于REU项目。普拉茨堡REU项目将挑战其学生研究人员对他们的研究进行广泛和创造性的思考，扩大他们的学科重点，并发展跨学科的视角。REU的学生还将参加每周一次的环境和社会研讨会系列活动，该系列活动是精心设计的，旨在将分水岭研究的科学方面与相关的社会和伦理问题联系起来。“这个网站得到了国防部与NSF REU项目的合作支持。”

The Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) at Plattsburgh State University (PSU) and the W.H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute seek to continue to provide eight-week summer research experiences for 12 highly motivated undergraduate students with broad academic training in the natural sciences and multifaceted interests in ecosystem research. Our principal objectives are to promote the professional development of our student researchers through their participation in ongoing interdisciplinary research of natural and managed fluvial and riparian ecosystems in the Little Chazy River watershed of northeastern New York. REU participants, individually and in small groups, will work closely with the program.s faculty mentors on research projects ranging from surface and ground water hydrogeology, geochemistry (nutrient cycling), and aquatic invertebrate, riparian and wetland ecology. The computer and laboratory resources at PSU and Miner Institute will be available for the REU project. The Plattsburgh REU program will challenge its student researchers to think broadly and creatively about their research, expand their disciplinary focus and develop an interdisciplinary perspective. The REU students will also participate in a weekly Environment and Society Workshop series that is carefully designed to link the scientific aspects of their watershed research to relevant social and ethical concerns. "This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program"