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AN: ED41B-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Integrating Research Into the Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Curriculum
AU: * Hallock-Waters, K A
EM: watersk@stockton.edu
AF: The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Division of Natural Science and Mathematics, Chemistry Program, 195 Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240 United States
AU: Sowers, L
EM: Louise.Sowers@stockton.edu
AF: The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Division of Natural Science and Mathematics, Chemistry Program, 195 Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240 United States
AU: Chirenje, T
EM: Tait.Chirenje@stockton.edu
AF: The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Division of Natural Science and Mathematics, Environmental Studies Program, 195 Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240 United States
AU: Oxley, J
EM: James.Oxley@dep.state.nj.us
AF: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Monitoring, PO Box 418, Trenton, NJ 08625-0418 United States
AB: The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is a state liberal arts college located 50 miles southeast of Philadelphia and adjacent to the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve and the Mullica River/Great Bay Estuary, one of the last relatively pristine watersheds along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coastline. The College's location provides many unique teaching and research opportunities focused on the Pinelands ecosystem. Through support from the National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program (NSF-CCLI) Stockton Chemistry and Environmental Studies faculty have incorporated research on the Pinelands into several undergraduate courses. Collaborating with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ-DEP), students in the Environmental Chemistry course are investigating air quality within the Pinelands. Stockton students maintain a NOx monitor at NJ-DEP's local air quality monitoring station where ozone and sulfur dioxide concentrations are measured by NJ-DEP. Students analyze and interpret the data in terms of photochemistry, sources, and transport. Students in this course also use ion chromatography to study local precipitation chemistry. Other student projects include evaluation of nutrient loading and algal productivity at a local lake, determination of metals in Pinelands waters, and monitoring changes in temperature and ion concentrations in Stockton's geothermal well field. Additionally, during summer 2005 nearly 100 high school students participated in water quality analysis in Stockton's research laboratories as part of the Governor's School on the Environment.
DE: 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
DE: 1806 Chemistry of fresh water
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005