Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources

全球气候变化及其对我国内陆沃茨的相关影响，给更好地管理土地和水资源带来了新的压力。在土著保留地更是如此，这些保留地处理复杂的资源管理问题，缺乏年轻的土著科学家来满足当前的需要。 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方法奠定坚实的基础。 可持续土地和水资源本科生网站的研究经验将每年吸引14名本科生，为期三年，研究对改善管理实践至关重要的可持续土地和水资源研究的关键要素。 资源管理具有跨学科性质，需要了解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。 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。在这个REU计划的学生将从事研究项目，有直接的社会相关性，以美国社区，包括本土保留。学生将在三个团队中的一个团队工作，这些团队将地球表面动力学，生态学，地质学，水文学，新湖沼学（内陆沃茨的研究）和古湖沼学原理和技术相结合。 该计划采取跨学科的团队为导向的方法，强调定量和预测方法。其中一个小组将侧重于对圣安东尼福尔斯实验室的两个问题之一的实验方法：（1）改善生态系统健康和鱼类栖息地或（2）泥石流灾害的溪流恢复做法;一个小组将研究蒙大拿州地表水管理做法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过去和现在的栖息地条件。在该计划结束时的全团队聚会将使所有学生接触到一个道德计划，该计划将在社区的背景下考虑学生的研究，学生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.