The second annual SRC spring workshop brought together faculty from departments across campus via discussions of recent proposal submitted to NSF, NOAA, and NASA and of projects that have already been funded in the United States and around the globe. Discussions at the workshop helped refine SRC’s focus for the coming year(s):

• Key Goal: Our key goal is to raise UNH’s capacity in sustainability science, particularly related to an increase in the submission and acceptance of significant, cutting edge, high quality, interdisciplinary proposals.
• Focus Areas: SRC sustainability science research efforts over the 2012-13 AY will focus on the integration of three areas of particular UNH strength, with a continued geographic focus on Great Bay/Gulf of Maine:

1. Sustainable agriculture and food systems
2. Public health ecology
3. Water quality and quantity

• Resources: In addition to supporting several SRC Faculty Fellows, the SRC will provide funds to support:

1. Strategic visits to federal funding agencies (in collaboration with the SVP Research Office) or other research institutions for individuals working on sustainability science research proposals.
2. Invited speakers and associated round table discussions on particular topics of interest to the SRC members.
3. Proposal preparation and submission (budgets, current and pending; CVs; other documents as required).

View the SRC Spring 2012 Agenda

SRC Spring 2012 Reading List

• Clark, W.C. (2007.) "Sustainability Science: A room of its own." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104: 1737-1738; published online on February 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611291104.
• Reid, W.V., Chen, D., Goldfarb, L., Hackmann, H., Lee, Y.T., Mokhele, K., Ostrom, E., Raivio, K., Rockstrom, J., Schellnhuber, H.J., Whyte, A. (12 NOVEMBER 2010.) "Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges." Science (330): 916-917. Accessed April 4, 2012, at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6006/916.full.pdf.
• "Building A Network for A Resilient Food System in New Hampshire and Southern Maine." Submitted to NSF Coupled Human-Natural Systems (RCN), Nov 2011. PI: Semra Aytur. Co-I: Heidi Asbjornsen, Charles French, Stephen H Jones.
• "Interactions Among Climate, Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Society." Funded by NSF-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Sep 2011. PI: Nisbet. Co-I: Kevin Gardner, Richard Howarth, Bill McDowell, Cameron Wake.
• "Enhancing Resilience in the Gulf of Maine Watershed." Submitted to NSF SRN Nov 2011. PI: Cameron Wake. Co-I: Kevin Gardner.

SRC Presentations

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• Incubating Interdisciplinary Sustainability Science at UNH. Cameron Wake.
• "Building A Network for A Resilient Food System in New Hampshire and Southern Maine." Semra Aytur, Heidi Asbjornsen.
• "Collaborative Planning for Climate Change Adapta'on: A Case Study in Great Bay Na'onal Estuarine Research Reserve." Paul Kirshen.
• "Center for Health Analytics." Jo Porter.
• "Using Applied Sociological Analysis to Inves4gate Linked Social-­‐Ecological Systems." Tom Safford.
• "Virbrios in the Great Bay: indices and effects of changing climate and land use." Vaughn Cooper, Cherly Whistler, Steve Jones.
• "Landscapes, Networks and Social Resource Decisions." Joel Hartter.
• "Paleoecology, Sustainabilty Science and Eco-epidemiology." Michael Palace.