Proposal
Introduction
What we'll do
Course Modules
Test plot to examine ground flow and uptake
Year round
Longitudinal
Off-site plot maintenence
Summer multidisciplinary research community
Continue maintence/development of local plot
Off-site plot research
K-12 teacher professional development workshops, prep for class
visits during the school year by those same teachers.
About Earlham?
Budget
Equipment:
Ultrasonic Nebulizer (Boorman? Leave it here for now). $15K
Large freeze drier $20K
Acid digestion system $20K
Field monitoring equipment (one per location) ~$1.5K per, about 6
Temperature
Ph (digital)
Conductivity
Redox (reduction oxidation potential)
Computer, packaging, uploading
Nitrate selective probe through the summer?
Sampling equipment (what depth do we need?) $1K + lots
Lake sediment cores to 2m
Shelby soil cores to some unknow depth
One time install for monitoring wells and equipment for drawing
Sounds like different approaches for different locations.
Springwood has wells that we could sample (possibly)
Software and hardware $5K
Groundwater flow analysis -
Do we need cycles?
Talk to Mic about this
Workshop - ~$6K
Teacher stipends - 10 per workshop (year) over 4 years
Meals and supplies
Intructor stipends (or covered elsewhere?)
Supplies
Per faculty, per course, per student researcher
Faculty and student stipends for summer prep of curriculum modules
Faculty Release Time during the academic year for first offering
Faculty and student Stipends for summer research projects based on this
What's the science
Amount present over time
Take-up into tissue? Bioavailability
What metals
Mercury
Lead
Uranium
Arsenic
Selinium
Vanadium
Moly
What computational
Water flow through soil
Which courses
Harder to do entry level classes
EcoBio
Environmental Science and Sustainability
Programming and Problem Solving
Introduction to Computational Science
Statistics
Principles of Chemistry
Easier to do upper level courses
Equilibrium and Analysis
Hydrogeology
Geochemistry
Modeling
Environmental Chemistry
Instrumental Analysis
Outcomes
See how modern, collaborative, science is done
Outreach to local community, science in the context of real life
Why Keck?
Multidisciplinary curriculum development is hard to find public funding
for.
We'd like to keep up with the Joneses, and they all have Keck grants.
Modest size.
Items to Include:
How we are going to carry on after Keck's funding expires.
Weather station reference.
Questions:
If we get funding from other sources can we be flexible about what we use
their money for?
What are our target locations?
One close to campus for ease of access for EcoBio, sample plot idea.
One further away that might be more "interesting": Springwood Lake,
Teal pond, Garner pond, Swayne Robinson/Richmond Gas Company, etc.
Tie to IDEM's/CIty of Richmond investigation of Springwood Lake? Mention
this.
Can we make the claim that taking a course with this module in it will
increase the chance that they will take another science course/major? Is
there any support in the literature for this? Survey students before and
after the class? Survey classes without this module and with this module.
More other science courses are taken as a result of taking a course with
this module?
WWABD?
Documents to review:
Keck's mission statement, previous grants. Answer the questions why Keck,
and why not someplace else.
LOI guidelines.
References:
Report from Keck - Barbara
PITAC reports
Notes:
Funding delivered Dec, 2006. Summer time is startup for both ongoing
research and course module development. Release the following Fall/Spring
for first implementation in each course.