REU Site: RUI: Creating Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for Phosphorus Sustainability (CROPS)

REU 网站：RUI：为磷的可持续性 (CROPS) 创造跨学科研究机会

• 批准号: 1357387
• 负责人: Nels Paulson
• 金额: $ 28.2万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Stout
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; RUI; Creating; Interdisciplinary

This project brings together a dynamic and creative group of faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Stout to create an 8-week interdisciplinary REU site targeting first generation and underrepresented minority students. Students and faculty engage in a holistic apprentice-style training model with the overall theme of studying phosphorus pollution in a highly impacted Wisconsin watershed. The team studies inclusive decision-making, social networks among farmers, responsive policy implementation, economic impacts, land-use effects on phosphorus run-off, remediation strategies, and sediment geochronology. Data are integrated into a comprehensive strategy for economically sustainable phosphorus use. Students and faculty participate in professional development programming, interdisciplinary data sharing, and original research activities designed to empower and prepare students for sciencecareers. Ultimately, this investment in human capital will help produce a workforce trained in interdisciplinary and collaborative thinking necessary to solve 21st century problems.Intellectual Merit :This work offers significant intellectual contributions by improving student learning and development in response to research experiences, creating innovative approaches to manage the training and professional development of students and faculty in interdisciplinary research, and understanding the complex processes contributing to phosphorus pollution while developingsustainable solutions. These efforts dovetail nicely with an ongoing NSF-funded project at UW-Stout to study classroom-based research. The research results are broadly disseminated via student presentations, peer-reviewed literature, local media outlets, and policy stakeholders.Broader Impacts :The proposed project is ecpected to result in lasting impacts for students, faculty, and community alike. The PI-team's efforts at synthesizing different research projects centered on the same substantive problems have improved their effectiveness in collaborative problem solving and in teaching undergraduates an interdisciplinary approach to research. The team expects an increase the retention and success of underrepresented groups and their pursuit of advanced science degrees. By sharing results with civic leadersand government regulators, their new knowledge will impact public policy, the local economy, and regional water quality. This should have a significant impact on developing a more competitive workforce in the social and natural sciences in the US, increasing participation of underrepresented minority groups and women in the sciences, improving undergraduate education in the socialand natural sciences. Most importantly, this project whould have a positive impact on public scientific literacy.

这个项目汇集了威斯康星大学斯托特分校充满活力和创造力的教职员工团队，创建了一个为期8周的跨学科REU网站，面向第一代和代表性不足的少数族裔学生。学生和教职员工参与了一个整体学徒式的培训模式，总的主题是研究受高度影响的威斯康星州分水岭的磷污染。该小组研究了包容性决策、农民之间的社会网络、响应政策的实施、经济影响、土地利用对磷流失的影响、补救战略和沉积物地质年代学。数据被纳入经济上可持续的磷使用的综合战略。学生和教职员工参与专业发展规划、跨学科数据共享和原创研究活动，旨在增强学生的能力并为科学工作者做好准备。最终，这种对人力资本的投资将有助于培养出一支受过跨学科和协作思维培训的劳动力队伍，这是解决21世纪问题所必需的。智力价值：这项工作通过改善学生的学习和发展来回应研究经验，创造创新的方法来管理跨学科研究中学生和教师的培训和专业发展，并在开发可持续解决方案的同时了解导致磷污染的复杂过程，从而提供重大的智力贡献。这些努力与UW-Stout正在进行的NSF资助的研究基于课堂的研究项目非常吻合。研究结果通过学生陈述、同行评议文献、当地媒体和政策利益相关者广泛传播。广泛的影响：预计拟议的项目将对学生、教师和社区产生持久的影响。PI团队以相同的实质性问题为中心综合不同研究项目的努力，提高了他们在协作解决问题和教授本科生跨学科研究方法方面的有效性。该团队预计，代表性不足的群体的留存率和成功程度以及他们对高级科学学位的追求将会增加。通过与公民领袖和政府监管机构分享成果，他们的新知识将影响公共政策、当地经济和地区水质。这应该会对培养美国社会科学和自然科学领域更具竞争力的劳动力产生重大影响，增加少数族裔群体和女性在科学领域的参与度，改善社会科学和自然科学领域的本科教育。最重要的是，这个项目将对公众的科学素养产生积极影响。