Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| 项目编号 | 1017146 |
| The Nexus Of Agricultural And Urban Trade-Offs: Enhancing Interdisciplinary Education And Research To Create Emerging Opportunities In Urban Agriculture | |
| Muenich, Rebecca | |
| 主持机构 | ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY |
| 开始日期 | 2018 |
| 结束日期 | 2021 |
| 资助机构 | US-NIFA（美国食品与农业研究所） |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 中文简介 | 2020 - Engineering |
| 英文简介 | Goals / Objectives Given that agriculture is a vital part of the Southwest's economy, and encroachment of agriculture by urban expansion, in addition to concerns of decreasing water supply, has the potential to severely impact livelihoods and food security in the region, the overall goal of this grant will be to improve Arizona State University's (ASUs) capacity to perform agricultural research and education to address challenges and identify emerging opportunities at the urban-agriculture nexus in the desert Southwest.Through this large-scale comprehensive initiative, ASU -with expertise in environmental engineering in urban systems and urban sustainability - will team up with the U.S. Arid Lands Agricultural Research Center - with foremost expertise in arid lands agriculture - and Mesa Community College - a leader in fostering and cultivating sustainable urban agriculture education in the Phoenix area - to create new research and education opportunities and collaborations at the urban-agriculture nexus.Our project objectives are to:Increase connections between agricultural and urban stakeholders in the Phoenix area and ASU and MCC faculty and students and ALARC scientists.Increase ASU and MCC student awareness and interest in agricultural research and jobs.Increase undergraduate student participation in sustainable agriculture research at ASU and MCC.Increase undergraduate and graduate student leadership skills in agriculture.Quantify the co-benefits of recycled fertilizer use for urban agriculture in arid environments.Identify the benefits and short-comings of various water sources used in urbanGoals /arid agriculture.Project Methods The project methods are two-fold. First, we will use various forms of stakeholder involvement to engage the urban and agricultural communities in the Phoenix area. This includes kick-off and summative conferences, a student-led webinar series, and the creation and consultation of a stakeholder advisory group. Second, we will use multiple methods to increase agricultural research and education at ASU. This includes the development of an undergraduate experiential learning course joint with ASU and MCC and the hiring of two MS students that will be jointly advised by ASU and ALARC mentors.A number of educational and experimental techniques will be used in this project. In coursework, the PIs will apply acquired teaching practices including active learning and summativeGoals /formative feedback. Co-PI Conroy-Ben has taken seminars on the Felder Method for teaching and learning STEM, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education), and ASU's Just in Time Teaching with Two-way Formative Feedback. PI Muenich completed a Postdoctoral Teaching Course for STEM Learning at the University of Michigan. Co-PI Conden completed an Effective Teaching in Agriculture and Life Sciences course at North Carolina State University. Leadership development for students will be approached via tiered mentoring and the development of the workshop series.Research methods to be employed include methods for nutrient analyses (spectrometer), field-level water balance and nutrient balance estimates, soil sampling, various field experimentation designs (demonstration strip design, replicated control design, replicated measurement design, randomized complete block design, etc.), organic carbon analysis (TOC, DOC, BOD5), estrogen and androgen bioassays to measure endocrine disruption of environmental samples, analytical chemistry, drug resistance assays, DNA sequencing, and microbial enumeration. All experiments will be run at least in triplicate to obtain standard deviation and error.Project evaluation will be led by Dr. Shelly Potts (Senior Director) and Dr. Alison Cook-Davis (Assistant Director) of Arizona State University's Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (UOEEE), in cooperation with PI Muenich. The UOEEE is uniquely qualified given the team's extensive training, expertise, and experience in monitoring and evaluating higher education projects funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The UOEEE will provide independent evaluation of the grant objectives, activities and outcomes, as well as offer consultation for the project's internal, formative assessment and evaluation activities. UOEEE's mixed-method evaluative approach will include both formative and summative components to determine the extent to which the project's annual and overall objectives and outcomes have been met during and at the conclusion of the three-year funding period, gauge the quality and impact of the project's activities, and identify any unintended outcomes. |
| 英文关键词 | arid agriculture food security resource recovery urban agriculture |
| 来源学科分类 | 2020 - Engineering |
| 资源类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/356112 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Muenich, Rebecca.The Nexus Of Agricultural And Urban Trade-Offs: Enhancing Interdisciplinary Education And Research To Create Emerging Opportunities In Urban Agriculture.2018. |
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