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。缓营养型沼泽水文与环境梯度变化。在经费减少的情况下，将只进行第一个领域的工作。在前一个地区工作的团队，促进生态学家、水文学家/工程师、微生物学家和毒理学家之间的互动，也将关注佛蒙特州的水文学、生态毒理学、微生物生态学和营养型沼泽的生物多样性。该研究将包括实地和实验室测量、数学建模以及研究生的多学科课程培训。研究后者的团队需要较少的种子基金投资，预计将在Winooski （VT）河流域开展一项涉及空间、时间和社会梯度的环境变化的合作。该项目将在UVM自然资源学院的选定教师与土木与环境工程系，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.