REU Site: Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services

REU 网站：生态系统服务评估和可持续管理

• 批准号: 1063067
• 负责人: Marty Matlock
• 金额: $ 25.7万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Assessment; Sustainable; Management

An award has been made to The University of Arkansas that will provide research training for 10 weeks for 10 students, during the summers of 2011-2013. This program will provide an integrated research experience for three cohort groups of 10 undergraduate students each working with federally recognized Native American Tribes in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Faculty mentors are an interdisciplinary team from seven departments, including Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Anthropology, Biology, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Sciences, and Geosciences. Each cohort year will begin with a one-week emersion course on Experimental Design followed by an eight week Research Experience and a seminar series on Exploration of Sustainability Ethics across cultures, concluding with a one week intensive program in Data Analysis and Scientific Communications where they will draft, review, revise, and submit written and oral reports of their work. Students will explore the concepts of ecological services and cultural and economic values of ecosystem functions. This REU will take students through the process of developing testable hypotheses, collecting data, analyzing data, and communicating results BOTH in oral and in written form. This experience will integrate classroom and field research within each cohort with sustainable management of ecosystem services. More than 50 students have participated in this program in the past five years. The cohort groups of 10 undergraduate students each will work with a faculty advisor from the Project Team. Information about the program will be assessed by various means, including use of an REU common assessment tool. More information is available by visiting http://www.ecoreu.uark.edu , or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marty Matlock at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Michelle Evans-White at [e-mail]).

阿肯色大学已获得一项奖励，将在 2011 年至 2013 年夏季为 10 名学生提供为期 10 周的研究培训。该项目将为三个由 10 名本科生组成的小组提供综合研究经验，每个小组在俄克拉荷马州和南达科他州联邦认可的美洲原住民部落工作。 教师导师是来自七个系的跨学科团队，包括农业经济与农业综合企业、人类学、生物学、生物工程、化学工程、环境科学和地球科学。每个队列年将以为期一周的实验设计浮现课程开始，然后是为期八周的研究体验和跨文化可持续道德探索系列研讨会，最后是为期一周的数据分析和科学传播强化课程，他们将起草、审查、修改和提交工作的书面和口头报告。学生将探索生态服务的概念以及生态系统功能的文化和经济价值。该 REU 将带领学生完成开发可检验假设、收集数据、分析数据以及以口头和书面形式传达结果的过程。这种经验将把每个群体的课堂和实地研究与生态系统服务的可持续管理结合起来。 过去五年已有50多名学生参加了该项目。每个由 10 名本科生组成的小组将与项目团队的一名指导老师一起工作。 有关该计划的信息将通过各种方式进行评估，包括使用 REU 通用评估工具。如需了解更多信息，请访问 http://www.ecoreu.uark.edu ，或联系 PI（Marty Matlock 博士，[e-mail]）或联合 PI（Michelle Evans-White 博士，[e-mail]）。