UMEB: Comparative Ecology: Perspectives on Environments Across Space, Time and Cultures

圣母大学（ND）和蒙大拿州的萨利希和库特奈部落联盟（CS KT）有一个环境生物学教育和研究的合资企业，其中包括一个面向所有大学本科生的教育计划。 每个学生队列参加两个夏季会议（10周）：夏季之间的大二和大三年在北方密歇根州和夏季之间的大三和大四年在蒙大拿州。 每个夏季课程之前是一个学期的预备课程。 一个队列由8名学生组成; 4名将是美洲原住民。 UMEB资金支持8名美国原住民学生（两个队列）。 暑期课程由来自四所大学的十名教师提供。每个暑期课程包括各种野外生态学课程模块。 在密歇根州提供的模块是森林，水生，昆虫，两栖动物/爬行动物和哺乳动物/鸟类生态学。 蒙大拿州提供的模块是草原和山地生态学和古生态学。 这两个夏天还包括考古学家和部落成员提供的一个模块，内容是当地美洲土著人传统生活方式的生态学，以及环境如何塑造这些传统生活方式和人们的环境态度。 然而，主要的重点是每个学生的独立研究项目和学生团队的环境监测。 研究主题集中在课程模块或高级研究人员的项目上。 以团队为基础的监测由资深科学家监督。 在第二个夏天，研究项目和监测强调生态性能之间的比较。 该计划旨在向环境生物学学生灌输四种素质：1）关于环境多样性的科学知识; 2）将这些知识与团队中的其他人整合的能力; 3）通过独立研究产生科学知识的能力;以及4）考虑环境态度多样性的能力，特别是美洲原住民的态度，因为新颖的态度可能有助于解决环境问题。美国原住民学生将在环境生物学方面受到更好的教育，以管理部落土地。 非美洲原住民学生将接触到美洲原住民的态度，这可能有助于解决复杂的环境问题，并促进所有群体的环境正义。 欲了解更多信息，请与加里·别洛夫斯基博士联系（电话：574 631 0172;电子邮件：nd.edu）。

The University of Notre Dame (ND) and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana (CS&KT) have a joint venture for education and research on environmental biology, which includes an educational program for undergraduates from all universities. Each student cohort participates in two summer sessions (10 weeks each): the summer between Sophomore and Junior years in northern Michigan and the summer between Junior and Senior years in Montana. Each summer session is preceded by a one semester preparatory course. A cohort consists of 8 students; 4 will be Native Americans. UMEB funding supports 8 Native American students (two cohorts). Summer sessions are offered by ten faculty from four universities.Each summer session includes various field ecology course modules. The modules offered in Michigan are forest, aquatic, insect, amphibian/reptile, and mammalian/avian ecology. The modules offered in Montana are grassland and montane ecology and paleoecology. Both summers also contain a module offered by archaeologists and tribal members on the ecology of traditional life ways of local Native Americans and how the environment shaped these and the peoples' environmental attitudes. However, the main focus is each student's independent research project and environmental monitoring by student teams. Research topics are focused on course modules or projects of senior researchers working on the properties. Team-based monitoring is overseen by senior scientists. In the second summer, research projects and monitoring stress ecological comparisons between the properties. The program seeks to instill four qualities in environmental biology students: 1) scientific knowledge on a diversity of environments; 2) ability to integrate this knowledge with others in a team; 3) ability to generate scientific knowledge through independent research; and 4) ability to consider a diversity of environmental attitudes, especially those of Native Americans, because novel attitudes may aid in addressing environmental problems. Native American students will be better educated in environmental biology to manage tribal lands. Non-Native American students will be exposed to Native American attitudes that may aid in solving complex environmental problems and foster environmental justice for all groups. For more information, contact Dr. Gary Belovsky (phone: 574 631 0172; e-mail: Belovsky.1@nd.edu).