UBM-Group: Collaborations on Riverine Ecology (CORE)

UBM 集团：河流生态学合作 (CORE)

• 批准号: 1029041
• 负责人: James Peirce
• 金额: $ 23.68万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1029041&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UBM; Group; Collaborations; Riverine; Ecology

This UBM Group project is providing rigorous research experiences for interdisciplinary teams of students that pair one student from mathematics and one from biology. Student teams work in close association with faculty from both mathematics and biology to plan projects in the general area of Riverine Ecology, conduct research, and then disseminate the results to peers and the general public. Course and curricular innovation includes an initial independent study course through which students receive an introduction to the upper Mississippi River system and perform a literature review to enhance their theoretical and empirical understanding of the local systems. Based on feedback from faculty and peers and their immersion in the literature students generate testable hypotheses, leading into a ten-week period of summer research activities. Weekly interactions among all program members occur throughout the summer period and continue into the fall semester, during which time students meet weekly to discuss recent papers, peer-review presentations by cohort members, create video podcasts for dissemination, and learn about career opportunities in mathematical biology.

这个UBM小组项目正在为学生组成的跨学科团队提供严格的研究经验，这些团队将一名来自数学的学生和一个来自生物学的学生配对。学生团队与数学和生物学的教师密切相关，以计划河流生态学，进行研究的一般领域的项目，然后将结果传播给同伴和公众。课程和课程创新包括最初的独立学习课程，学生通过该课程将获得密西西比河上游系统的介绍，并进行文献综述，以增强他们对当地系统的理论和经验理解。基于教师和同龄人的反馈及其沉浸在文献中，学生会产生可检验的假设，从而进入了为期十周的夏季研究活动。所有计划成员之间的每周互动都会在整个夏季进行，并持续到秋季学期，在此期间，学生每周开会，讨论COHORT成员的最新论文，同行评审演讲，创建视频播客以进行传播，并了解数学生物学的职业机会。