REU Site: RUI: LINKING APPLIED KNOWLEDGE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY (LAKES)

该项目由SBE理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划资助。因此，它具有科学效益和社会效益，并将研究和教育结合起来。该项目将来自威斯康星大学斯托特分校的一群充满活力和创造力的教师聚集在一起，进行为期8周的跨学科REU现场培训，以培养科学界代表性不足的第一代和少数民族学生。学生和教师将参与学徒式的培训模式，其总体主题是研究威斯康星州高度富营养化流域的磷污染。REU站点将研究农民之间的社会网络、包容性决策、响应性政策实施、经济影响、沉积物地质年代学、修复策略以及土地利用对磷径流的影响。数据将纳入经济上可持续利用磷的综合战略。学生和教师将参与专业发展规划、跨学科数据共享和原创研究活动，这些活动旨在为学生的科学事业，特别是那些在科学界代表性不足的科学事业，提供支持和准备。这项工作通过改善学生的学习和发展来响应研究经验，为跨学科研究创造创新方法，并在制定可持续解决方案的同时了解导致磷污染的复杂过程，从而提供了重要的智力贡献。这些努力与威斯康星大学斯托特分校的一个流域研究项目相吻合，该项目由威斯康星州自然资源部和美国陆军工程兵团共同资助。拟议的项目将对学生、教师和当地社区产生持久的影响。以同一实质问题为中心综合不同研究项目的努力将提高协作解决问题的效率。研究结果将通过学生报告、同行评议文献、当地媒体和政策利益相关者广泛传播。通过与流域的土地使用者、其他公民和政府工作人员分享研究成果，这些新知识将影响公共政策、当地经济和区域水质。总体而言，该项目将对在美国发展更具竞争力的社会和自然科学劳动力队伍、增加代表性不足的少数群体和妇女对科学的参与、扩大公众科学素养、推进水质修复工作以及改善社会和自然科学的本科教育产生重大影响。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. This project brings together a dynamic and creative group of faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Stout for an 8-week interdisciplinary REU site to train first generation and minority students underrepresented in the scientific community. Students and faculty will engage in an apprentice-style training model with the overall theme of studying phosphorus pollution in a highly eutrophic Wisconsin watershed. The REU site will study social networks among farmers, inclusive decision-making, responsive policy implementation, economic impacts, sediment geochronology, remediation strategies, and land-use impacts on phosphorus run-off. Data will be integrated into a comprehensive strategy for economically sustainable phosphorus use. Students and faculty will participate in professional development programming, interdisciplinary data sharing, and original research activities designed to empower and prepare students for science careers, particularly those underrepresented in the scientific community.This work offers significant intellectual contributions by improving student learning and development in response to research experiences, creating innovative approaches to interdisciplinary research, and understanding the complex processes contributing to phosphorus pollution while developing sustainable solutions. These efforts dovetail well with a project at UW-Stout in watershed research jointly funded by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and US Army Corps of Engineers. The proposed project will result in lasting impacts for students, faculty, and local community alike. The efforts at synthesizing different research projects centered on the same substantive problems will improve effectiveness in collaborative problem solving. The results will be broadly disseminated via student presentations, peer-reviewed literature, local media outlets, and policy stakeholders. By sharing the results with land users in the watershed, other citizens, and government workers, the new knowledge will impact public policy, the local economy, and regional water quality. This project overall will have a significant impact on developing a more competitive work force in the social and natural sciences in the US, increasing participation of underrepresented minority groups and women in the sciences, expanding public scientific literacy, advancing water quality remediation efforts, and improving undergraduate education in the social and natural sciences.