Lake Watch:Undergraduate Students as Teachers of Satellite Imaging Among Volunteer Lake Monitors

生物科学(61)这个项目正在开发一个跨学科的课程，将UNH的两个非常成功但目前分开的优秀领域结合在一起。湖泊监测计划(LLMP)是一项有22年历史的老牌计划，生活在NH湖的公民利益相关者收集水质数据，以便在UNH进行分析和存档。利用与地球、海洋和空间研究所(EOS)的世界级设施相关的优势，正在利用遥感和地理信息系统(GIS)加强LLMP。我们正在招募一批北大二年级的学生，包括非理科专业的学生，参与这个项目，该项目正在修改黑板计划，以连接平湖志愿者和北大本科生。他们正在学习使用地球空间技术(GST)开发从太空监测湖泊/流域的区域算法，同时学习湖泊学和微生物生态学的理论和实践。我们正在采用盖亚十字路口项目的方法，让本科生担任外展教师，以培训GST方面的非专业监督员。这个“湖边观察项目”通过假设驱动的合作学习，培养沟通、团队合作和批判性思维的技能。该项目增加了本科生作为教学资源的教师赋权，并提高了教师对无授课教学的认识。它通过一个写作和演讲密集型的湖泊观察研讨会课程，产生了学生准备的资源手册和远程学习模式。正在评估这一模式的适用性，将其作为将湖泊/分水岭遥感引入其他领域，包括K-12教室的一种手段。

Biological Sciences (61)This project is developing an interdisciplinary curriculum bringing together two highly successful but currently separate areas of excellence at UNH. The Lakes Lay Monitoring Program (LLMP) is a 22-year veteran program wherein citizen stakeholders living on NH lakes collect water-quality data for analysis and archiving at UNH. The LLMP is being augmented with the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), drawing from strengths associated with a world-class facility housed in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS). We are recruiting a cohort of UNH sophomores, including non-science majors, to participate in the project which is adapting the Blackboard Project to connect lay lake volunteers and UNH undergraduates. They are learning to use the geo-spatial technologies (GST) to develop regional algorithms to monitor lake/watersheds from space, while learning theory and practice of limnology and microbial ecology. We are engaging the undergraduates as outreach teachers through adaptation of methods from the Gaia Crossroads Project to train the lay monitors in GST. This "Lake Watch Project" develops skills for communication, teamwork and critical thinking through hypothesis-driven, cooperative learning. The project increases faculty empowerment of undergraduates as a teaching resource and promotes faculty awareness of lecture-less teaching. It yields, through a writing- and speaking-intensive Lake Watch Seminar course, a student-prepared resource manual and a distance-learning model. The suitability of this model is being evaluated as a means of introducing lake/watershed remote sensing into other arenas, including K-12 classrooms.