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RCN-SEES: Climate, Energy, Environment, and Engagement in Semi-Arid Regions (CE3SAR)

January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2016 | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aim to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. Research Coordination Network (RCN) CE3SAR (Climate, Energy, Environment, and Engagement in Semiarid Regions) is a comprehensive partnership of researchers at South Texas regional institutions and major research universities elsewhere advancing knowledge of science, engineering and education for sustainability (SEES). The network will develop and test an innovative model for conducting interdisciplinary, region-specific, sustainability research closely tied to the needs and interests of highly-engaged local stakeholders. RCN CE3SAR will aggregate regional research capacities specific to sustainability in semiarid climates contiguous to the Gulf of Mexico while leveraging research expertise infused from outside the region. Geographic information science (GIS) will play a key role in the process of integrating layers of scientific data, producing scientific insight and presenting new ideas, new research directions and new scientific knowledge to regional stakeholders as well as the scientific community. The network will align regional capacities that heretofore were largely disconnected and bring focus and synergy to a range of research that will profoundly impact the region and its socioeconomic future. The network will engage and educate regional communities, government and private-sector stakeholders throughout the process.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 1140196
Funding Amount: 745817

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Luis Cifuentes
    Principal Investigator
    Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Jorge Vanegas
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Texas A&M University
  • Gary Jeffress
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Rudolph Rosen
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Wesley Patrick
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Southwest Research Institute
  • Discipline: Climate | Computing and information science | Ecology, forestry, and agriculture | Geoscience and geography
    Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate Students | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists
    Environment Type: Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Resource Centers and Networks

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