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佛罗里达国际大学的本科生研究项目旨在激发和促进环境科学与工程专业本科生在本科学习早期的兴趣、好奇心、创造性和批判性思维。这项工作要求学生参与一个与石油泄漏的移动和污染介质的处理有关的综合研究项目，以尽量减少对环境的潜在损害。该计划让学生从事与石油泄漏的移动和处理相关的不同领域的研究。研究领域包括以下几个方面：环境生物学、环境物理学、环境化学、环境建模和过程设计。研究目标如下：建立详细的数学模型来研究溢油的运动，并开发创新的处理工艺，以最大限度地减少溢油对环境的潜在影响；进行实验以评估物理、化学和生物参数在控制和处理溢油方面的重要性；评估时间和长度尺度对分析石油运移动力学的相对重要性，并研究遏制方案和处理过程的有效性。

The research program for undergraduates at Florida International University is designed to stimulate and promote interest, curiosity, creative and critical thinking of undergraduate students in environmental science and engineering during their early years in undergraduate program. This work involves students in a comprehensive research program relative to movement of oil spills and treatment of contaminated media to minimize potential damage to the environment. The program engages students with different areas of research relative to movement and treatment of oil spills. The areas of research are in the following areas: environmental biology, environmental physics, environmental chemistry, environmental modeling, and process design. The research goals follow: formulate a detailed mathematical model to study the movement of oil spills and develop innovative treatment processes to minimize the potential impacts of the oil spills in the environment; conduct experiments to evaluate the significance of physical, chemical, and biological parameters in containment and treatment of oil spills; evaluate the relative significance of time and length scales for analyzing dynamics of oil migration and study effectiveness of containment options and treatment processes.