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The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) announces several new interdisciplinary research projects have been supported. The selected projects were submitted through SESYNC’s spring request for proposals (RFP) for collaborative team-based synthesis research pursuits around emerging socio-environmental synthesis topics.
The projects include eight research Pursuits and three Workshops. More information about the awarded projects can be found below.
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Historical Ecology
Full Title: How does a historical perspective inform ecosystem management targets, goals, and outcomes?
PIs: Andrew Trant, University of Waterloo; Loren McClenachan, Colby College
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Diversity in Eco-Function
Full Title: The missing link: Incorporating the role of biological diversity into projections of ecosystem services
PIs: Sarah Weiskopf, U.S. Geological Survey National Climate Adaptation Science Center; Maria Isabel Arce-Plata, Université de Montréal
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Governing Infrastructure
Full Title: Predictive modeling of the relationships among infrastructure, resource extraction, and environmental governance in Latin American forests
PIs: Anthony Bebbington, Clark University; Rebecca Ray, Boston University
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Lake Victoria Coupled Natural & Human Systems
Full Title: Perception versus reality: How the consequences of eutrophication impact subsistence fishery communities around Lake Victoria
PIs: Jessica Corman, University of Nebraska – Lincoln; Amber Roegner, University of Oregon
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Food-Energy-Water System Typologies
Full Title: Characterizing FEW system typologies across the continental U.S. for informed FEW research
PIs: Rebecca Muenich, Arizona State University; Rebecca Hale, Idaho State University
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Global Dam Watch
Full Title: Developing a community platform to map global dams, reservoirs, and river barriers
PIs: Bernhard Lehner, McGill University; Michele Thieme, World Wildlife Fund
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Energy-Water Nexus of Solar Industry
Full Title: Energy-water nexus analysis of solar energy industry
PIs: Ilke Celik, University of Wisconsin – Platteville; Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University
- Team Synthesis Project (Pursuit): Global Nitrogen Decline
Full Title: The ecological consequences of declining nitrogen concentration in plants worldwide
PI: Andrew Elmore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and SESYNC
- Team Synthesis Project (Workshop): Urban Nature Latin America
Full Title: Workshop on the potential of urban nature to support sustainability in Latin America: A synthesis from a socio-environmental perspective
PIs: Camilo Ordóñez-Barona, University of Melbourne; Tahia Devisscher, University of British Columbia; José Soto, University of Arizona
- Team Synthesis Project (Workshop): Pastoral Land Governance
Full Title: Synthesizing research on pastoral governance of common-pool resources
PIs::Lance Robinson, International Livestock Research Institute; Mark Moritz, The Ohio State University
- Team Synthesis Project (Workshop): Creation of an Amphibian - Bsal System Model to Identify Critical Management Uncertainties
Full Title: Co-generating a system model to improve opportunities for proactive management of the Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) threat in North America
PIs: Evan Campbell Grant, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center; Riley Bernard, Pennsylvania State University and USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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