Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources

全球气候变化及其对我国内陆水域的相关影响，为更好地管理土地和水资源带来了新的压力。在处理复杂的资源管理问题和缺乏年轻的土著科学家来满足当前需求的土著保留地，这种情况在更大程度上是正确的。需要更好地了解生物、化学、生态和物理过程，以便为资源管理的预测性办法奠定坚实的基础。可持续土地和水资源本科生研究经验网站每年将招收14名本科生，为期三年，研究可持续土地和水资源研究的关键要素，这些要素对改善管理实践至关重要。资源管理本质上是跨学科的，需要不断塑造和改变地球近地表环境的生物、化学、生态和物理过程的知识。改进资源管理做法具有社会意义，并具有公认的国家重要性。该REU项目的学生将从事与美国社区（包括土著保留地）有直接社会相关性的研究项目。学生将分成三个小组，完成综合地表动力学、生态学、地质学、水文学、新湖泊学（内陆水域研究）和古湖泊学原理和技术的项目。该计划采用跨学科的团队为导向的方法，强调定量和预测方法。在圣安东尼瀑布实验室（St. Anthony Falls Laboratory），一个团队将专注于用实验方法解决以下两个问题之一：(1)改善溪流恢复实践，以促进生态系统健康和鱼类栖息地；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部野生稻湖过去和现在的栖息地条件。项目结束时的全队聚会将让所有学生接触到一个伦理项目，该项目将在社区背景下考虑学生的研究，学生们将向一大群教师和学生展示他们的研究。

Global climate change and associated impacts on our national inland waters have led to new pressures for better land and water resource management. This is true to an even greater extent on native reservations, which deal with complicated resource management issues and lack young native scientists to meet current needs. A better understanding of biological, chemical, ecological and physical processes is needed to form a solid foundation for predictive approaches to resource management. The Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources will engage 14 undergraduate students per year for three years in the key elements of sustainable land and water resources research that are essential to improving management practices. Resource management is interdisciplinary in nature requiring knowledge of biological, chemical, ecological and physical processes that continuously shape and alter the Earth's near-surface environment. Improving resource management practices is socially relevant and of acknowledged national importance. Students in this REU program will be engaged in research projects that have immediate social relevance to US communities, including native reservations. Students will work on one of three teams on projects that integrate Earth-surface dynamics, ecology, geology, hydrology, neolimnology (study of inland waters) and paleolimnology principles and techniques. The program takes an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach that emphasizes quantitative and predictive methods. One team will focus on an experimental approach to one of two problems at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory: (1) improving stream restoration practices for ecosystem health and fish habitat or (2) debris flow hazards; one team will examine the effects of surface water management practice on groundwater resources in Montana; and one team will investigate past and present habitat conditions of wild rice lakes in northern Minnesota. An All-Team Gathering at the conclusion of the program will expose all students to an ethics program that considers student research in the context of the community and students will present their research to a large group of faculty and students.