Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Sustainable Land and Water Resources

这个REU网站吸引了11名本科生参与可持续土地和水资源研究的关键要素，这些要素对改善管理实践至关重要，重点是这项研究的跨学科性质。学生在三个小组中工作，完成综合地表动力学、地质学、生态学、湖沼学和古湖沼学以及可持续土地和水管理和恢复所需的水文学原理和技术的项目。他们将使用跨学科的团队导向的方法，强调定量和预测方法。一个小组将在圣安东尼瀑布实验室专注于溪流恢复相关的实验工作，一个小组将研究蒙大拿州地表水管理实践对地下水资源的影响，一个小组将调查明尼苏达州北部野生稻湖的古湖泊学和当前栖息地条件。项目结束时的全队聚会将让所有学生接触圣安东尼福尔斯实验室的实验室实验，并包括在社区背景下考虑学生研究的伦理课程。全球气候变化及其对我们国家水道的相关影响，为发展卓越的土地和水资源管理带来了新的压力。在印第安人保留地更是如此；他们处理复杂的资源管理问题，缺乏年轻的美洲原住民科学家来满足当前的需求。研究人员和实践者现在比以往任何时候都更需要以定量的方式理解物理和生态过程，这为资源管理的预测方法奠定了坚实的基础。通过参加三个小组中的一个，所有学生都将对定量预测研究和对土地和水资源可持续性至关重要的管理方法有深入的了解。来自地球科学中代表性不足的群体的学生是我们招聘工作的主要重点，他们将至少占该项目学生的75%。此外，学生将为美国土地和水资源管理的职业生涯做好准备，特别是与美洲原住民保留地有关的职业。

This REU site engages 11 undergraduate students in the key elements of research on sustainable land and water resources that are essential to improving management practices, with a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of this research. Students work on one of three teams on projects that integrate the Earth-surface dynamics, geology, ecology, limnology and paleolimnology, and hydrology principles and techniques required for sustainable land and water management and restoration. They will use an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach that emphasizes quantitative and predictive methods. One team will focus on stream restoration-related experimental work at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, one team will examine the effects of surface water management practice on groundwater resources in Montana, and one team will investigate paleolimnology and current habitat conditions of wild rice lakes in northern Minnesota. An All-Team Gathering at the conclusion of the program will expose all students to laboratory experiments at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and include an ethics program that considers student research in the context of the community. Global climate change and associated impacts on our national waterways has led to new pressures for the development of excellence in land and water resource management. This is true to an even greater extent on Native American reservations; which deal with complicated resource management issues and lack young Native American scientists to meet current needs. Both researchers and practitioners need, now more than ever, to understand physical and ecological processes in quantitative ways that form a firm foundation for predictive approaches to resource management. Through participation in one of three teams, all students leave this REU with a robust understanding of the quantitative predictive research and management approach critical to sustainability of land and water resources. Students from groups underrepresented in the Earth sciences are the major focus of our recruiting efforts, and will comprise at least 75% of the students in the program. In addition, students will be prepared for careers in land and water resource management in the U.S. in general, and specifically related to Native American reservations.