Welcome to the Center for the Environment

Opportunities

Discovery Park Seed Grant Competition for 2009
A total of $300,000 has been allocated to fund seed grants of up to $50,000 each for proposals that catalyze new high impact activities at Purdue, and that involve a Discovery Park center.
Proposals require a DP center support letter. please contact Lesley Oliver.

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.

Featured Research Initiatives

Sensory Landscapes and Intelligent Monitoring

The availability of real-time environmental detection capabilities and monitoring networks is critical for answering questions about landscape-scale phenomena, developing simulation models, and making informed environmental decisions.
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ECO-Hub

ECO-Hub will leverage the work of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and the nanoHUB middleware project by training undergraduate and graduate students and programmers to deploy advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) for environmental applications.
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Sustainable Futures

Tools that predict the environmental and economic outcomes of land use and decisions would greatly enhance the ability to promote environmentally sound economic development in Indiana .
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Technologies for cleaner air, soil, and water

Innovative strategies to reduce air, water and soil pollution from municipal, manufacturing, agricultural, and energy-related operations are being developed and implemented.
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