Great Lakes Research Consortium Summer Practicum for AppliedEnvironmental Problem Solving: New Approaches and Techni- ques for Undergraduate Faculty

五大湖研究联盟（GLRC）正在让20名本科教师参加为期三周的暑期实习，以证明解决环境问题是一种有效的教学策略，可以激发本科生对环境科学的兴趣。本科教师参与者正在学习环境分析技术，并为安大略湖受污染港口的假设开发项目准备环境影响报告。由于他们正在接触大湖研究界为了解和解决环境问题而开发的新的创新理论概念和技术，他们正在向参加者展示如何将环境问题解决纳入其本国机构的课程。基于五大湖经验的专题包括级联营养相互作用和群落生态学中的粒径谱的理论和应用；测定沉积物和鱼类中有毒化学物质浓度的分析方法；以及利用微型计算机对大型湖泊系统进行质量平衡和生物能量学模拟。通过为一个现实的项目编写环境影响报告，这些技术正在被整合到整体环境分析和解决问题的方法中，十年来，这些方法在两个GLRC校区激发了本科生对科学的兴趣。参加实习的人将带着扩展和更新的专业技能以及改进本科教育和解决当地社区环境问题的新战略、方法和技术回到他们原来的机构。

The Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) is immersing 20 undergraduate faculty in a three week summer practicum that is demonstrating environmental problem-solving as an effective teaching strategy to stimulate undergraduates' interest in environmental science. Undergraduate faculty participants are learning environmental analysis techniques and preparing environmental impact statements for a hypothetical development project in a contaminated harbor of Lake Ontario. As they are being exposed to new innovative theoretical concepts and techniques developed by the Great Lakes Research community to understand and solve environmental problems, participants are being shown how to integrate environmental problem-solving into curricula at their home institutions. Special topics, based on the Great Lakes experience are including the theories and applications of cascading trophic interactions and particle-size spectra in community ecology; analytical methods for determining toxic chemical concentrations in sediments and fishes; and use of microcomputers for mass-balance and bioenergetics modeling of large lake systems. Through preparation of environmental impact statements for a realistic project, these techniques are being integrated into the overall environmental analysis and problem-solving approach that has stimulated undergraduate interest in science at two GLRC campuses for a decade. Participants in the practicum are returning to their home institutions with expanded and updated professional skills and new strategies, methods and techniques for improving undergraduate education and addressing environmental problems in local communities.