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"protecting environmental integrity is essential to prosperity and the quality of life"
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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 dependant 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:
- discovery through anticipatory research that develops knowledge and innovative technologies
- entrepreneurship through commercialization of the technologies that further economic development and are environmentally beneficial
- engagement through policy analysis, regulatory guidance, and technology transfer
- 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
Study helps preserve arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt: Read More>>>
Knowledge flows at first Indiana Rivers Rally Read More>>>
Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption Read More>>> Test finds manufactured nanoparticles don't harm soil ecology Read More>>>
New coating could nix smudges, fogging on windshields, eyeglasses Read More>>>
Out and About
Brent Ladd presented a talk to the Elderhostel Group June 19th at Martel Forest
John Bickham presented C4E at the Indiana Rivers Rally Conference June 7th
Brent Ladd, Learning & Engagement, was interviewed May 25 on Inside Indiana Business regarding economic impact of river systems for the upcoming Indiana Rivers Rally conference. to view a clip from the interview (follows the 30 sec. infomercial) click here . John Bickham, Director, participated in the 59th annual International Whaling Commission meetings in Anchorage , Alaska , May 5 - 21, 2007. The IWC trip is related to our project on the population genetics of bowhead whales. Student, Ryan Huebinger also was in attendance. John and Ryan co-authored several papers that have used the genetics data we generated over the past 4 years. The study is related to the subsistence harvest of bowhead whales by Alaskan Eskimo communities and the hunt is regulated by IWC. Caleb Phillips , C4E Graduate student is in Russia on an island in the Sea of Okhotsk during the months of May and June. He is assisting an ongoing program by Russian scientist s who are studying the population biology of Steller sea lions. The studies focuses on evolution and stock structure of the species and this will serve as Caleb's dissertation topic.
John Bickham attended the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists April 19-21, 2007 at Tarleton State University , Stephenville , TX . Student, Caleb Phillips also attended and he and John (and others) coauthored a paper that Caleb presented on population genetics of Steller sea lions. John is the Past-President of SWAN and serves on the Board of Governors for the Assocation.
Linda Lee, Associate Director, presented on energy and environment at the Wabash Valley Power Association annual meeting on April 18-19, 2007 sponsored by the Energy Center at Purdue University .
John Bickham, Director, travelled to Tennessee to help establish inter-institutional relationships for future projects between Purdue, OakRidge Laboratory, and University of Tennessee . April 12-13.
John Bickham, Director, presented the mission and activities of the Center to the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and also to a group of prospective environmental engineering graduate students on March 2.
Brent Ladd, Learning and Engagement Coordinator, presented a workshop for the Tippecanoe County Master Naturalists on February 27.
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