REU Site: Multidisciplinary environmental science research on forest lakes in Northwest New Jersey

REU 网站：新泽西州西北部森林湖泊的多学科环境科学研究

• 批准号: 1004829
• 负责人: Meiyin Wu
• 金额: $ 37.36万
• 依托单位: Montclair State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1004829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Multidisciplinary; environmental; science

Undergraduate students will participate in transdisciplinary, hands-on, field-oriented research in environmental sciences, centered on small lakes around the New Jersey School of Conservation, Montclair State's field campus located in 30,000 acres of preserved forest in northwest New Jersey. The students will be housed and research based at the School of Conservation, providing an extraordinary "research immersion experience". Students will work on and rotate among the following research areas, performing field measurement and comparing them with modeling calculations: 1) surface hydrology; 2) subsurface hydrology; 3) diurnal water-quality relationships; 4) erosion and sedimentation relationships; and 5) sediment-water phosphorus dynamics. These small lakes lie in the midst of a large, protected forest; presumably, they can serve as reference sites for comparison in studies of other northeastern lakes. The small size of the lakes involved allows for intensive observation and, therefore, the project provides an excellent opportunity to assess the accuracy of various field methods and models in hydrology, geomorphology and aquatic chemistry. Participating students will interact with each other and with faculty and graduate students serving as role models. Faculty and graduate students from MSU will travel to NJSOC daily to work with the students in their area of expertise. REU students will also travel periodically to the main campus to analyze samples using advanced instruments. Scientific endeavors will be supported by team-building, recreational and educational/professional development activities, including presentations by the students at professional conferences. The program will inspire and enable REU scholars to pursue degrees and careers in science/engineering research and will build their confidence that such degrees/careers are desirable and feasible. By recruiting from minority-serving community colleges, we will attract the members of groups that are currently under-represented in the environmental sciences. The students will be trained in transdisciplinary field and laboratory scientific research methods in environmental science, as well as in teamwork and communication. Graduate students will also be trained in how to mentor undergraduates.

本科生将参加环境科学的跨学科，动手，以实地为导向的研究，以新泽西保护学院周围的小湖泊为中心，蒙特克莱尔州立大学的实地校园位于新泽西西北部30，000英亩的保护森林中。学生们将被安置在保护学院进行研究，提供非凡的“研究沉浸体验”。 学生将在以下研究领域工作和轮换，进行实地测量并将其与建模计算进行比较：1）地表水文; 2）地下水文; 3）昼夜水质关系; 4）侵蚀和沉积关系;和5）沉积物-水磷动态。这些小湖位于一片大型的受保护森林之中;据推测，它们可以作为东北部其他湖泊研究的参考点。所涉湖泊面积小，便于进行密集观测，因此，该项目为评估水文学、地貌学和水化学领域各种实地方法和模型的准确性提供了一个极好的机会。 参与的学生将相互交流，并与教师和研究生作为榜样。 来自MSU的教师和研究生将每天前往NJSOC与他们的专业领域的学生一起工作。REU学生还将定期前往主校区，使用先进的仪器分析样品。 科学工作将得到团队建设，娱乐和教育/专业发展活动的支持，包括学生在专业会议上的演讲。该计划将激励和使REU学者追求科学/工程研究的学位和职业，并将建立他们的信心，这些学位/职业是可取的和可行的。 通过从少数民族服务的社区学院招聘，我们将吸引目前在环境科学中代表性不足的团体的成员。 学生将接受环境科学跨学科领域和实验室科学研究方法的培训，以及团队合作和沟通。 研究生也将接受如何指导本科生的培训。