Instrumentation to Support Florida Gulf Coast University's "Campus Ecosystem Educational Model"

佛罗里达墨西哥湾沿岸大学(FGCU)开发了一种校园生态系统模型，用于向理科和非理科本科生教授跨学科科学。该模型的重点是通过校园的分水岭追踪物质和能量，从淡水来源，通过河口，到近岸海洋环境。学生通过综合研究体验参与个人、协作、班级和大学范围的主动学习。这种方法：1)为学生提供实际的科学体验；2)将本科科学教育置于更明确的背景下；3)整合更传统的、以学科为基础的框架；以及4)鼓励来自不同学科的有问题的人通过使用共享的资源和学习成果进行合作。收集准确的环境数据，然后高效、准确地进行分析的能力是该模型成功的基础。该项目将购买8台设备(自动分析仪、荧光仪、原子吸收光谱仪、冷汞蒸气分析仪、离子色谱电导检测器、物理水质数据探测仪、电磁流量计和大型绘图仪)，并将其整合到我们的计划中，这些设备对我们的流域生态系统研究至关重要。

Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) has developed a campus ecosystem model for teaching interdisciplinary science to both science and non-science undergraduates. The model focuses on the tracking of matter and energy through the campus' watershed from its freshwater origins, through estuaries, and into nearshore marine environments. Students participate in individual, collaborative, class-, and university-wide-active-learning through integrated research experiences. This approach: 1) provides students with hands on, real-world experience in science; 2) places undergraduate science education within a more explicit context; 3) integrates more traditional, discipline-based frameworks; and 4) encourages faulty from different disciplines to collaborate through the use of shared resources and learning outcomes. The ability to collect accurate environmental data and then efficiently and precisely analyze it is fundamental to the success of this model. This project will purchase and integrate into our program eight pieces of equipment (autoanalyzer, fluorometer, atomic absorption spectrometer, cold mercury vapor analyzer, conductivity detector for ion chromatography, physical water quality data sondes, electromagnetic flow meter, and large-format plotter) that are central to the study of our watershed's ecosystems.