Keck Foundation LOI

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.