Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources

这个REU网站从事11名本科生在可持续土地和水资源研究的关键要素，是必不可少的，以改善管理实践，重点是这项研究的跨学科性质。学生在三个团队中的一个团队工作，该团队将地球表面动力学，地质学，生态学，湖沼学和古湖沼学以及可持续土地和水资源管理和恢复所需的水文学原理和技术相结合。 他们将使用跨学科的团队为导向的方法，强调定量和预测方法。一个小组将专注于在圣安东尼福尔斯实验室进行与河流净化相关的实验工作，一个小组将研究蒙大拿州地表水管理实践对地下水资源的影响，一个小组将调查明尼苏达州北方野生稻湖的古湖泊学和当前栖息地条件。在该计划结束时的一个全团队聚会将使所有学生接触到圣安东尼福尔斯实验室的实验室实验，并包括一个伦理计划，考虑在社区的背景下学生的研究。全球气候变化及其对我们国家水道的相关影响，给土地和水资源管理方面的卓越发展带来了新的压力。在美洲原住民保留地，情况更是如此;这些保留地处理复杂的资源管理问题，缺乏年轻的美洲原住民科学家来满足当前的需要。研究人员和从业人员现在比以往任何时候都更需要以定量的方式了解物理和生态过程，为资源管理的预测方法奠定坚实的基础。通过三个团队之一的参与，所有学生离开这个REU与定量预测研究和管理方法至关重要的土地和水资源的可持续性的强大的理解。来自地球科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生是我们招聘工作的主要重点，将占该计划学生的至少75%。此外，学生将准备在美国的土地和水资源管理的职业生涯一般，特别是与美国原住民保留地。

This REU site engages 11 undergraduate students in the key elements of research on sustainable land and water resources that are essential to improving management practices, with a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of this research. Students work on one of three teams on projects that integrate the Earth-surface dynamics, geology, ecology, limnology and paleolimnology, and hydrology principles and techniques required for sustainable land and water management and restoration. They will use an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach that emphasizes quantitative and predictive methods. One team will focus on stream restoration-related experimental work at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, one team will examine the effects of surface water management practice on groundwater resources in Montana, and one team will investigate paleolimnology and current habitat conditions of wild rice lakes in northern Minnesota. An All-Team Gathering at the conclusion of the program will expose all students to laboratory experiments at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and include an ethics program that considers student research in the context of the community. Global climate change and associated impacts on our national waterways has led to new pressures for the development of excellence in land and water resource management. This is true to an even greater extent on Native American reservations; which deal with complicated resource management issues and lack young Native American scientists to meet current needs. Both researchers and practitioners need, now more than ever, to understand physical and ecological processes in quantitative ways that form a firm foundation for predictive approaches to resource management. Through participation in one of three teams, all students leave this REU with a robust understanding of the quantitative predictive research and management approach critical to sustainability of land and water resources. Students from groups underrepresented in the Earth sciences are the major focus of our recruiting efforts, and will comprise at least 75% of the students in the program. In addition, students will be prepared for careers in land and water resource management in the U.S. in general, and specifically related to Native American reservations.