Employing bioassessment parameters to monitor mine-impacted streams flowing onto the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation

采用生物评估参数来监测流入贝尔纳普堡印第安保留地的受地雷影响的溪流

• 批准号: 1521624
• 负责人: Dan Kinsey
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Aaniiih Nakoda College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521624&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Employing; bioassessment; parameters; monitor; mine

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will increase the body of knowledge on the effects of unremediated mining operations on water health.A'aniiih Nakoda College (ANC) will conduct a comparative analysis of the health of two types of streams, impacted and non-impacted by the lingering contamination of two cyanide-leech gold mines in central northern Montana. This will be accomplished using state-approved rapid bioassessment protocols for benthic macroinvertebrates and periphyton. Using samples collected from five reservation streams on a periodic basis, project personnel will sort, identify, count and analyze samples using a multi-metric approach that will include indices for taxa richness, community composition, pollution tolerance/intolerance, and other parameters. Split samples will be analyzed at a certified independent laboratory to ensure quality control.

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，扩大了学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且将增加关于未经补救的采矿作业对水健康影响的知识体系。A 'aniih Nakoda学院（ANC）将对两种类型的河流健康进行比较分析，受蒙大拿州中部北方两个氰化物水蛭金矿持续污染的影响和未受影响。 这将通过国家批准的底栖大型无脊椎动物和附着生物快速生物评估方案来实现。 项目人员将利用定期从五个保留地收集的样本，采用多尺度方法对样本进行分类、识别、计数和分析，其中包括分类群丰富度、群落组成、污染容忍度/不容忍度指数和其他参数。 将在经认证的独立实验室分析分离样本，以确保质量控制。