REU Site: Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange

REU 网站：通过跨学科交流恢复生态系统

• 批准号: 1263257
• 负责人: Alan Rabideau
• 金额: $ 28.85万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Ecosystem; Restoration; through

The University at Buffalo (UB) REU site addresses the important topic of Ecosystem Restoration from an interdisciplinary perspective. Although ERIE-REU participants are drawn primarily from engineering undergraduate programs, the interdisciplinary program includes faculty participants from eight academic departments across two campuses. While diverse in scope and methods, the ERIE research projects share a place-based focus on the ecological recovery of the lower Great Lakes and Western New York regions. During the ten-week program, formal training in research methods supports individual projects organized into three interdisciplinary themes: lake and river restoration, groundwater restoration, and sustainable engineering applications. Biweekly group meetings and field trips allow students to share ideas and methods across disciplines, including discussions related to the ethics and values of ecological restoration. In a final culminating experience, ERIE-REU students present their projects to a diverse academic and professional audience. Students are also encouraged and supported to engage in post-REU conference presentations. ERIE-REU participants are recruited from a diverse set of partner institutions, including undergraduate colleges with a high proportion of underrepresented groups and regional Native American communities.

布法罗大学（UB）REU网站从跨学科的角度解决了生态系统恢复的重要课题。虽然ERIE-REU参与者主要来自工程本科课程，但跨学科课程包括来自两个校区八个学术部门的教师参与者。虽然范围和方法各不相同，但伊利研究项目都侧重于五大湖下游和纽约西部地区的生态恢复。在为期十周的课程中，研究方法的正式培训支持组织成三个跨学科主题的单个项目：湖泊和河流恢复，地下水恢复和可持续工程应用。双周小组会议和实地考察让学生分享跨学科的想法和方法，包括与生态恢复的伦理和价值观相关的讨论。在最后的高潮体验中，ERIE-REU学生将他们的项目展示给不同的学术和专业观众。还鼓励和支持学生参与REU会议后的演讲。ERIE-REU的参与者是从不同的合作机构中招募的，包括代表性不足的群体和区域美洲原住民社区比例较高的本科院校。