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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 (Workshop): Wicked Problems in Food Systems Solutions
Full Title: Wicked problems in food system solutions
PIs:Verena Seufert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Graham MacDonald, McGill University
- Team Synthesis Project (Foundation): IHOPE
Full Title: If the past teaches, what does the future learn?
PIs: Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Carrie Hritz, SESYNC; 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 & nutrition
PIs: Alder Keleman Saxena, Aarhus University; Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, American University School of International Service
- 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
- Team Synthesis Project: Sustainable Water Futures
Full Title: Planning for sustainable water futures in sub-saharan Africa in the context of the SDGs
PIs: Charles Vörösmarty, The City College of New York; Dave Hole, Conservation International
- Team Synthesis Project: Sustainable Agriculture
Full Title: Understanding dynamic environmental and socio-economic interactions in food systems to support decision-making towards a sustainable and resilient agriculture
PIs: Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Kimberly Pfeifer, Oxfam America; Eric Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory
- Team Synthesis Project: Soil as Social-Ecological Feedback
Full Title: Soil as a social-ecological feedback: Mapping the social and ecological processes for agroecosystem resilience in the era of climate change
PIs: Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Andrea Basche, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Team Synthesis Project: Urban Woodlands
Full Title: Social-ecological drivers of change over time in urban woodlands
PIs: Lea Johnson, University of Maryland; Michelle Johnson, U.S. Forest Service
- Team Synthesis Project: Insect Invasions
Full Title: Global socioeconomic drivers of insect invasions
PIs: Andrew Liebhold, U.S. Forest Service; Michael Springborn, University of California, Davis
- Team Synthesis Project: Infectious Diseases
Full title: Synergistic interactions of environmental degradation, socio-economic development and infectious disease dynamics in the Amazon region
PIs: Andres Baeza, Arizona State University; Mercedes Pascual, University of Chicago
- Team Synthesis Project: Modeling Risk Perception
Full Title: Modeling risk perception, vector-borne diseases, and environmental integrity: Understanding environmental impacts of policy decisions for vector control
PI: Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
- Team Synthesis Project: Disease, Ecosystem Processes, and Humans
Full Title: Microbial disease dynamics, ecosystem processes, and human eutrophication of the environment
PIs: Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota; Eric Seabloom, University of Minnesota
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