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Welcome
The complex coupling of natural and human systems poses numerous grand environmental challenges. The Earth's resources are being consumed and modified at unprecedented rates as we expand our economy, but our economic future and quality of life are intrinsically dependent on a healthy natural environment. For continued prosperity, we must develop new ways to model and predict the impact of anthropogenic influences on ecosystems, monitor environmental quality, manage our natural resources, and develop new technologies that will help create a cleaner environment.
The Center for Environment (C4E), in close partnership with other centers, is synergizing relationships between faculty from many disciplines, as well as industry, the public, and the government to respond to these challenges.
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Inaugural 2-year report on
Center Activities (pdf)
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"Protecting environmental integrity is essential to prosperity and our quality of life" |
Activities within the C4E focus on integrating:
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discovery through anticipatory research that develops knowledge and innovative technologies
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entrepreneurship through commercialization of the technologies that further economic development and are environmentally beneficial
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engagement through policy analysis, regulatory guidance, and technology transfer
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learning through creation of new opportunities for students seeking a truly interdisciplinary education
More information on specific projects being supported by the Center can be found by selecting Research or Education from the menu above.
C4E in the News
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As this image shows, populations of Diporeia have precipitously declined since the mid-1990s. Purdue researchers, led by C4E member Marisol Sepulveda, are searching for an explanation for their dwindling numbers, which threaten to have a major impact on fish populations throughout the Great Lakes. larger map |
Dr. John Bickham has co-authored a study providing evidence that mercury-associated effects of stress and metabolism occur in Common Loon chicks. The study has in part influenced a mercury reduction rule in Wisconsin. press release (pdf), June 25, 2008.
Purdue helps Indiana companies stay 'lean and clean'
Featuring information on free workshops for manufacturers being conducted by the Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute, a sub-center of C4E. Purdue News Article, June 23, 2008.
A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing species.
Purdue News article on C4E supported research. May 29, 2008.
Discovery Channel News, May 30, 2008.
Online tool aids in local planning, economic development.
Purdue News article on a C4E seed project. April 23, 2008.
News archive
Out and About
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Center Director, Professor John Bickham, collecting wildlife and ecotoxicology data in Azerbaijan
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Director Bickham participated in the 60th Annual International Whaling Commission meetings. Santiago, Chile. June 1 - 14, 2008.
John Bickham, Director, presented at the San Antonio Purdue Alumni meeting. May 24, 2008.
Director Bickham visited former Soviet country of Azerbaijan to lead ecotoxicology and biodiversity trainings, and to conduct data collection. April 22 - May 2, 2008.
Out and about archive
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