Development of an On-Campus Environmental/Hydrological Laboratory Site

Cullowhee Creek环境现场站项目采用的做法包括利用调查经验对当地环境系统进行积极调查，收集和分析定量数据，扩大跨学科机会，并强调理论与应用之间的联系。该项目使用多种方法来激发学生的研究问题，包括由nsf赞助的NCL Nest项目开发的调查科学。这种在实验室的主题方法增加了学生建立联系的能力，并通过开发校园环境实验室站点Cullowhee Creek环境现场站增加了项目之间的跨学科互动。学生适应各种地球物理和水文工具来表征和监测地球材料，以及地面和地表水系统。该遗址包括水井、气象站和流计，其特点是使用水文和地球物理方法。地球物理设备将包括电阻率、地震和探地雷达，这是环境工业中使用的三种技术。四门课程，环境地质学，土壤与水文学，普通物理和地球物理学，从入门到高级，被重组为包括综合的，基于现场的实验室。该网站用于其他课程和学生研究项目。一个实地站网站允许传播和评价数据，结果在会议上提出并发表在《地质教育杂志》和《美国物理学杂志》上。

The Cullowhee Creek Environmental Field Station Project adapts practices that involve active investigations in local environmental systems using investigative experiences, collection and analyses of quantitative data, expansion of interdisciplinary opportunities, and emphasis on connections between theory and application. This project implements investigative science using a variety of methods to stimulate student research questions including that developed by the NSF-sponsored NCL Nest project. This thematic approach in labs increases the student's ability to make connections and increases crossdisciplinary interactions between programs by the development of an on-campus environmental laboratory site, the Cullowhee Creek Environmental Field Station. Students adapt a variety of geophysical and hydrological tools to characterize and monitor earth materials, and ground and surface water systems. The site includes wells, a weather station, and a stream gage and is characterized by using hydrological and geophysical methods. Geophysical equipment will include resistivity, seismic, and ground penetrating radar, three techniques used in the environmental industry. Four courses, Environmental Geology, Soils & Hydrology, General Physics and Geophysics, ranging from introductory to advanced, are restructured to include integrated, site-based laboratories. The site is used in other courses and student research projects. A field-station website allows dissemination and evaluation of data and results are presented at meetings and published in the Journal of Geological Education and the American Journal of Physics.