Understanding Huckleberry Pollination With Research Designed for Student Participaton

通过为学生参与设计的研究来了解哈克莓授粉

• 批准号: 1721243
• 负责人: Janene Lichtenberg
• 金额: $ 19.88万
• 依托单位: Salish Kootenai College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1721243&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Huckleberry; Pollination; Research; Designed

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 research capacity at these institutions expands the opportunities for students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be locally relevant, and encourages a faculty community to look beyond the traditional classroom for intellectual and professional growth. This project, entitled "Understanding Pollination With Research Designed for Student participation (UPWRDS)," aligns directly with that goal, and moreover may prove to be a model for similar engagement at other small community colleges.The project objectives are to provide an opportunity for SKC faculty and students to conduct original and community relevant research that contributes to scientific knowledge, benefits education, and leverages support for continuing research opportunities. UPWRDS specifically addresses the following: 1) Does the exclusion of pollinators significantly influence huckleberry productivity on the Flathead Reservation?; and 2) Which organisms are the primary probable pollinators of huckleberry plants on the Reservation compared to the overall active pollinator community? The work will be pursued through pollinator exclosure experiments, direct netting of pollinators observed visiting huckleberry flowers, time-constrained net sweeps, berry productivity counts, and berry seed counts. Time-lapse cellular cameras will be employed to track huckleberry phenology to assist researchers in determining the timing for data collection during flowering and peak berry ripeness.

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。扩大这些机构的研究能力，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，为可能与当地相关的领域提供了研究，并鼓励教师社区超越传统课堂寻求智力和专业成长。该项目名为“通过学生参与研究理解政治”（UPWRDS），与这一目标直接相关，而且可能成为其他小型社区学院类似参与的典范。该项目的目标是为SKC教师和学生提供一个机会，进行原创和社区相关的研究，有助于科学知识，有益于教育，并利用对持续研究机会的支持。UPWRDS特别针对以下问题：1）排除传粉者是否会显著影响平头保留区的越橘生产力？和2）与整个活跃的传粉者群落相比，哪些生物是保护区越橘植物的主要可能传粉者？ 这项工作将通过传粉者封闭实验，直接观察访问越橘花，时间限制的净清扫，浆果生产力计数，浆果种子计数传粉者网。定时移动摄像机将被用来跟踪越橘的物候，以帮助研究人员确定开花和浆果成熟高峰期的数据收集时间。