A Watershed Based Approach to Environmental Education Integrating Ecology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry

地球系统科学(40)本项目采用和实施已发表的研究和最近NSF-CCLI项目的方法，在宾厄姆顿大学校园的分水岭内开发基于跨学科分水岭的环境教育方法。该方法涉及对不同土地利用地区内三个实地地点的物理、化学和生物过程进行综合研究。安装在分水岭内的仪器被用于实践学习活动，而且距离校园教室只有一步之遥。随着学生评估生物地球化学过程的复杂性，污染正成为共同的统一主题。该项目将环境水文学(环境研究)、环境测量(地质学)和生态系统生态学(生物学)这三门学科的概念直接联系起来。学生，包括未来的K-12科学教师，正在参与设计和评估实地练习，并将收集的环境数据存档。项目数据正在一个网站上存档，以便快速传播和检索。这种环境教育的多学科方法使来自不同背景的学生发现，在混合土地利用分水岭中进行的过程与生活质量问题和关切具有普遍相关性，包括：1)大气沉积及其与空气质量的关系；2)地下过程及其与地下水质量的关系；以及3)土地利用与地表水质量的关系。水文-地质-生态联系，以校园分水岭内的地点为公共平台，提供了一种研究地球系统过程的方法，直接适用于现实世界中的环境问题解决。

Earth System Science (40) This project adapts and implements approaches from published studies and recent NSF-CCLI projects in developing a cross-disciplinary watershed-based approach to environmental education within the watershed on the Binghamton University campus. The approach involves integrated study of physical, chemical and biological processes at three field sites within areas of differing land use. Instrumentation installed within the watershed is being used in hands-on learning activities, and is within walking distance of classrooms on campus. Pollution is serving as the common unifying theme as students assess the complexity of biogeochemical processes. The project is directly linking concepts within three courses in three disciplines: Environmental Hydrology (Environmental Studies), Environmental Measurements (Geology), and Ecosystem Ecology (Biology). Students, including future K-12 science teachers, are participating in designing and evaluating field exercises and in archiving the environmental data being collected. Project data is being archived in a website for rapid dissemination and retrieval. This multidisciplinary approach to environmental education is allowing students from diverse backgrounds to discover that processes ongoing in a mixed land-use watershed have universal relevance to quality of life issues and concerns including: 1) atmospheric deposition and its relation to air quality; 2) subsurface processes and the relation to groundwater quality, and 3) the relation of land use to surface water quality. The hydrological-geological-ecological linkage, using sites within a watershed on campus as the common platform, is providing an approach to studying earth system processes that is directly applicable to environmental problem solving in the real world.