Discovery Park - Center for the Environment

2year report


Inaugural 2-year report on
Center Activities
(pdf)

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"protecting environmental integrity is essential to prosperity and the quality of life"

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.


Activities within the C4E focus on integrating:

  • discovery through anticipatory research that develops knowledge and innovative technologies

  • entrepreneurship through commercialization of the technologies that further economic development and are environmentally beneficial

  • engagement through policy analysis, regulatory guidance, and technology transfer

  • 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

EEI top team
Featuring research by C4E members Larry Nies, Ron Turco, and Leila Nyberg. Leila is a graduate student in the Center’s Ecological Sciences and Engineering graduate program


Online tool aids in local planning, economic development.
Purdue News article on a C4E seed project. April 23, 2008.

Jeff Evans receives 2008 College of Technology Outstanding Faculty in Discovery Award.
In C4E, Jeff’s work focuses on developing wireless sensor networks for monitoring environmental conditions.  Congratulations Jeff!

Road losses add up, taxing amphibians and other animals.
Purdue News article, April 16, 2008.

Eskimos can continue 2,000 year old whale hunt
(Earth & Sky interview with C4E Director, John Bickham. Highlights research results informing decisions on whale harvest - click on the "listen link" in the upper right corner)

Manufactured Buckyballs don’t harm microbes that clean the environment.
Purdue News article, April 8, 2008






News archive



Out and About

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Center Director, Professor John Bickham, collecting wildlife and ecotoxicology data in Azerbaijan


Director Bickham visited former Soviet country of Azerbaijan to lead ecotoxicology and biodiversity trainings, and to conduct data collection. April 22 - May 2, 2008.













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Upcoming Events

Purdue Energy Center Biofuels Symposium 2008
May 19-20, Stewart Center, Purdue University
Poster abstracts due May 5
Website


Nanotechnology & the Environment.
August 5-6, 2008.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Indianapolis.
Hosted by Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Environment at Purdue. Contributors: Nanotechnology Center, Center for the Environment, Purdue University.
Website.

Event Archive

Opportunities


The Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program provides students with an interdisciplinary educational experience that integrates the science and engineering concepts needed to understand environmental and ecological phenomena.
Visit the ESE pages
for information on applying to the program.


Student Positions


Student Engineering Internships and Full Time Positions through Office of Industrial Relations, Civil Engineering Department more...

Related Centers


Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI)

Purdue Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological Sustainability (PICES)


Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)

Illinois- Indiana Sea Grants

Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)

Indiana State Climate Office

Contact Us


Center for the Environment
503 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette , IN 47907
Phone: 765-494-5146
Fax: 765-496-1369
Email: environment@purdue.edu