Development of a Multidisciplinary Research Culture in Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Vermont

该项目旨在建立基础设施，以减少环境科学和工程领域多学科研究的现有障碍，最初确定了两个主要研究领域。营养丰富的沼泽水文学和沿坡度的环境变化。在资金减少的情况下，将只研究第一个领域。致力于前一领域的研究小组将促进生态学家、水文学家/工程师、微生物学家和毒物学家之间的互动，还将重点研究佛蒙特州营养丰富的沼泽的水文学、生态毒理学、微生物生态学和生物多样性。这项研究将包括实地和实验室测量、数学建模和多学科课程课程的研究生培训。致力于后者的团队需要较少的种子资金投资，预计将开发一项合作努力，涉及Winooski(VT)河流域沿空间、时间和社会梯度的环境变化。该项目将在密歇根大学自然资源学院选定的教员与土木工程和环境工程系、地质系和地理系之间建立研究伙伴关系。

This project, aiming at establishing infrastructure to reduce existing barriers to multidisciplinary research in environmental science and engineering, originally identified two main areas of research. Ombrotrophic bog hydrology and Environmental change along gradients.Under reduced funding only the first area will be pursued. The team working on the former area, promoting interactions between ecologists, hydrologists/engineers, microbiologists, and toxicologists, will also focus on hydrology, ecotoxicology, microbial ecology, and biodiversity of ombrotrophic bogs of Vermont. The research will include field and laboratory measurements, mathematical modeling, and training of graduate students with a multi-disciplinary course curriculum. The team working on the latter, requiring a smaller investment of seed funding, was expected to develop a collaborative effort involving environmental change along spatial, temporal, and societal gradients in the Winooski (VT) River basin. This project will build a research partnership between selected faculty at UVM School of Natural Resources, and the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geology, and Geography.