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Inaugural 2-year report on
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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:
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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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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
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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
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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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