Health Status of the Ecosystem, Biodiversity and Species Abundance along the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline.

达科他输油管道沿线生态系统、生物多样性和物种丰富度的健康状况。

• 批准号: 1755745
• 负责人: Francis Onduso
• 金额: $ 30.48万
• 依托单位: Sitting Bull College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1755745&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Health; Status; Ecosystem; Biodiversity; Species

The Tribal Colleges and University Program is designed to support improvements in the science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) education and research capacities of colleges and universities that serve significant numbers of Native students in the United States. Strengthening these educational opportunities serves to increase the number of Indigenous people attaining STEM degrees and thereby diversify the STEM workforce in the United States. The Health Status of the Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Water, Soil and Species Abundance Along the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline project supports these outcomes through its study of the ecosystems surrounding the pipeline. Led by an expert interdisciplinary team of environmental science faculty members from Sitting Bull College on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, the project focuses on gathering baseline data on species diversity, water quality, and soil characteristics of the areas on the reservation surrounding the pipeline. Faculty mentors also engage Native undergraduate and graduate students as integral members of the project, mentoring them in the design and conduct of the research and the presentation of its findings. The baseline information gathered in the study is an invaluable resource in helping further understanding of the environmental effects of pipelines over time and in formulating strategies for managing those effects. The ubiquitous presence of oil pipelines across the United States serving to meet the nation's energy needs makes this work highly relevant and significant to the American citizenry on a broad scale.The focus of the Health Status of the Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Water, Soil and Species Abundance Along the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline is to conduct a baseline inventory of the species composition, water quality, and edaphic factors of various habitats surrounding the pipeline. Using sophisticated sampling techniques and state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, the project engages an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists from Sitting Bull College in documenting, quantifying, and deriving relative abundance estimates of keystone species in the areas surrounding the pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The comprehensiveness and rigor of the data collection and analyses enable the study of the ecosystem across spatial and temporal scales. These data will be widely available and will be valuable in furthering current understanding of pipeline impacts as well as informing future studies and the formulation of remediation plans for this and other pipelines in the United States. The collaboration of undergraduate and graduate level students with faculty mentors in the research design, implementation, and presentation contributes to the project?s broader impacts by developing the research capacity of the tribal college and its students.

部落学院和大学计划旨在支持为美国大量土著学生提供服务的学院和大学提高科学、数学、工程和技术（STEM）教育和研究能力。加强这些教育机会有助于增加获得STEM学位的原住民人数，从而使美国的STEM劳动力多样化。达科他输油管道项目沿线生态系统、生物多样性、水、土壤和物种丰度的健康状况通过对管道周围生态系统的研究支持了这些结果。该项目由来自立岩苏族保留区坐牛学院的环境科学专业跨学科团队领导，重点收集管道周围保留区物种多样性、水质和土壤特征的基线数据。教师导师还将本地本科生和研究生作为项目的组成部分，指导他们设计和实施研究并展示研究结果。研究中收集的基线信息是一种宝贵的资源，有助于进一步了解管道对环境的长期影响，并制定管理这些影响的战略。为了满足国家的能源需求，遍布美国的石油管道无处不在，这使得这项工作对美国公民具有广泛的相关性和重要性。“达科他输油管道沿线生态系统、生物多样性、水、土壤和物种丰度健康状况”的重点是对管道周围各种栖息地的物种组成、水质和土壤因素进行基线清查。该项目采用先进的采样技术和最先进的实验室设备，由坐牛学院（Sitting Bull College）的环境科学家组成的跨学科团队参与，对位于立岩苏族保留地（Standing Rock Sioux Reservation）管道周围地区的关键物种进行记录、量化和相对丰度估算。数据收集和分析的全面性和严谨性使研究跨越时空尺度的生态系统成为可能。这些数据将被广泛使用，并将有助于进一步了解目前对管道的影响，并为未来的研究提供信息，并为美国的这条管道和其他管道制定补救计划。本科和研究生水平的学生与教师导师在研究设计、实施和演示方面的合作对项目有帮助吗？通过发展部落学院及其学生的研究能力，对美国产生更广泛的影响。