REU Site: Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services

阿肯色州大学已获奖，将在2011-2013年夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的研究培训。该项目将为俄克拉何马州和南达科他州联邦承认的美洲原住民部落工作的10名本科生组成的三个队列小组提供综合研究体验。教师导师是一个来自七个系的跨学科团队，包括农业经济学和农业商业、人类学、生物学、生物工程、化学工程、环境科学和地球科学。每个队列年将以为期一周的实验设计再现课程开始，然后是八周的研究体验和关于跨文化可持续发展伦理探索的研讨会系列，最后是一周的数据分析和科学交流强化课程，他们将在其中起草、审查、修改和提交工作的书面和口头报告。学生将探索生态服务的概念以及生态系统功能的文化和经济价值。这一REU将带领学生完成制定可检验的假设、收集数据、分析数据以及以口头和书面形式交流结果的过程。这一经验将把每个队列中的课堂和实地研究与生态系统服务的可持续管理结合起来。在过去的五年里，有50多名学生参加了这个项目。每个由10名本科生组成的队列小组将与项目团队的一名教师顾问一起工作。关于该方案的信息将通过各种手段进行评估，包括使用REU通用评估工具。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.ecoreu.uark.edu，或联系国际和平组织(马蒂·马特洛克博士，电子邮件：mmatlock@uark.edu)或共同国际组织(米歇尔·埃文斯-怀特博士，电子邮件：mevswh@uark.edu)。

An award has been made to The University of Arkansas that will provide research training for 10 weeks for 10 students, during the summers of 2011-2013. This program will provide an integrated research experience for three cohort groups of 10 undergraduate students each working with federally recognized Native American Tribes in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Faculty mentors are an interdisciplinary team from seven departments, including Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Anthropology, Biology, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Sciences, and Geosciences. Each cohort year will begin with a one-week emersion course on Experimental Design followed by an eight week Research Experience and a seminar series on Exploration of Sustainability Ethics across cultures, concluding with a one week intensive program in Data Analysis and Scientific Communications where they will draft, review, revise, and submit written and oral reports of their work. Students will explore the concepts of ecological services and cultural and economic values of ecosystem functions. This REU will take students through the process of developing testable hypotheses, collecting data, analyzing data, and communicating results BOTH in oral and in written form. This experience will integrate classroom and field research within each cohort with sustainable management of ecosystem services. More than 50 students have participated in this program in the past five years. The cohort groups of 10 undergraduate students each will work with a faculty advisor from the Project Team. Information about the program will be assessed by various means, including use of an REU common assessment tool. More information is available by visiting http://www.ecoreu.uark.edu , or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marty Matlock at mmatlock@uark.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Michelle Evans-White at mevanswh@uark.edu).