A Scientific Laboratory Course in Environmental Geology in Urban Areas

该项目将设计一门环境地质学实验室课程，以科学的方式解决城市和郊区问题。为本课程设计的练习将是实用的，以各种城市环境中可能遇到的问题为基础，通过在计算机上对数据集进行量化分析得出解决方案。学生将被要求评估或设计针对一些环境问题的补救方法。将为该项目设计和制造几台仪器。新泽西州北部是开发这类课程的理想地区，因为它主要位于城市或郊区，因为它包含了各种规模的严重环境危害，而且新泽西州在环境清理方面的人均支出比美国其他任何一个州都要高。罗格斯-纽瓦克校区拥有一个文化和种族多元化的学生群体，他们主要来自这个人口稠密的地区；城市环境地质学问题将与这一学生客户具有特别的相关性，并将有助于招募少数族裔参与地球科学教育。

This project will design an Environmental Geology laboratory course that addresses urban and suburban problems in a scientific manner. Exercises designed for this course will be practical, based on a problems that that could be encountered in a variety of urban settings, with solutions derived through quantitative analysis of datasets on the computer. Students will be asked to evaluate or design remediation methods for a number of environmental problems. Several instruments will be designed and built for this project. Northern New Jersey is the ideal area to develop such a course because it is largely urban or suburban, because it contains many severe environmental hazards at all scales, and because New Jersey spends more per capita on environmental clean up than any other state in the union. The Rutgers-Newark campus contains a culturally and ethnically diverse student body that is largely from this highly populated area; urban environmental geology issues will have particular relevance for this student clientele, and will help to recruit minority participation in geoscience education.