The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) welcomes twelve new projects starting in 2018. The projects include 1 Workshop, 1 Foundation, and 10 Pursuits. Learn more about each project below.
More information about the newly awarded projects can be found below:
- Team Synthesis Project (Graduate-student-led): Revitalizing Mariculture
Full Title: A socio-environmental approach to improve offshore aquaculture and policy: gulf of Mexico case study
PIs: Nicole Barbour, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Ashley Bae, University of California, Santa Cruz; Amanda Guthrie, Virginia Institute of Marine Science & College of William and Mary
- Team Synthesis Project (Graduate-student-led): Environmental Justice in Stream Restoration
Full Title: Is your project just water or just water: environmental justice in stream restoration
PIs: Lucy Andrews, University of California, Berkeley; Jessica Balerna, University of South Florida
- Team Synthesis Project (Graduate-student-led): Climate Gentrification
Full Title: Pushed to the edge: A socio-environmental analysis of climate gentrification along the East Coast of the United States
PIs: Kelsea Best, Vanderbilt University; Md Sariful Islam, Virignia Tech; Zeynab Jouzi, North Carolina State University
- Team Synthesis Project (Graduate-student-led): Decision Making for Ecological and Economic Benefits
Full Title: Using decision making models to design effective policy for natural climate solutions: A case study of agroforestry in West Africa
PIs: Millie Chapman, University of California, Berkeley; Zoe Hastings, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Team Synthesis Project (Graduate-student-led): Financial Opacity and Forest Governance
Financial opacity and challenges to forest governance in Indonesia and Malaysia
PIs: Jonathan Sullivan, University of Michigan; Alice Lépissier, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Workshop: Wicked Problems in Food System Solutions
Full Title: Wicked Problems in Food System Solutions
PIs: Verena Seufert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Graham MacDonald, McGill University
- Team Synthesis Project: IHOPE
Full Title: If the past teaches, what does the future learn?
PIs: Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Carrie Hritz, SESYNC; and Christian Isendahl, University of Gothenburg
- Team Synthesis Project: Agrobiodiversity, Food Security, and Nutrition
Full Title: Diverse pathways to nourishment: Understanding how agricultural biodiversity enhances food security and nutrition
PIs: Alder Keleman Saxena, Aarhus University and Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, American University
- Team Synthesis Project: Urban-Rural Food Biodiversity
Full Title: Linkages of agrobiodiversity in urban systems and food-producing landscapes
PIs:
- Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University
- Karen C. Seto, Yale University
Planning for sustainable water futures in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the SDGs
PIs:
- Charles Vorosmarty, The City College of New York
- David Hole, Conservation International
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- Xin Zhang, UMCES
- Kimberly Pfeifer, Oxfam America
- Eric Davidson, UMCES
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- Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, USDA
- Andrea Basche, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Social-ecological drivers of change over time in urban woodlands
PIs:
- Lea Johnson, University of Maryland
- Michelle Johnson, US Forest Service
Global socioeconomic drivers of insect invasions
PIs:
- Andrew Liebhold, US Forest Service
- Michael Springborn, University of California-Davis
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- Andres Baeza, Arizona State University
- Mercedes Pascual, University of Chicago
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- Nina Fefferman, University of Tennessee
Microbial disease dynamics, ecosystem processes, and human eutrophication of the environment
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- Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota
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