Sustainability Research Collaboratory

The Sustainability Research Collaboratory (SRC) is the primary research pillar of the UNH Sustainability Academy and works to build capacity in UNH faculty, staff and students to engage in sustainability science research. Sustainability science “... brings together scholarship and practice, global and local perspectives, and disciplines across the natural and social sciences, engineering, and medicine… it can be usefully thought of as neither ‘‘basic’’ nor ‘‘applied’’ research but as a field defined by the problems it addresses rather than by the disciplines it employs; it serves the need for advancing both knowledge and action by creating a dynamic bridge between the two."* 
A collaboration of the UNH Sustainability Academy, the Carsey Institute and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, the SRC focuses on:
  • Capacity building
  • Collaborative research proposal development and implementation

 

Spring 2012 Roundtables and Workshop

  • SRC 2012 Workshop: May 17-18, Browne Center, UNH Durham and Wentworth by the Sea, New Castle. To attend, contact us.
  • Roundtable 6: Planning the Spring Workshop. April 13, 12 - 1:30 PM, 301 Morse Hall.

 

Fall 2011 Roundtable Media

Round Table 4: Discussion on adaptive management

Round Table 3: Discussion on food systems research
 

Round Table 2: Faculty presentation of interdiscplinary methods

Round Table 1: Paradigm Shifts: What is interdisciplinary research? Guest lecture by Dr. Jennifer Kushner.

Spring 2011 Workshop

 

Mission

To incubate researcher learning communities that will develop and submit interdisciplinary sustainability science proposals to federal agencies. The SRC accomplishes this mission by facilitating interdisciplinary sustainability science research among faculty from all colleges and institutes. Learn more by reading the Summer 2011 feature on the SRC in the EOS newsletter. 

 

Partners

Leadership

SRC Steering Committee

  • Harlan Spence (Director, EOS)
  • Tom Kelly (Director and CSO, UNHSA)
  • Curt Grimm (Deputy Director, Carsey Institute)
  • Jack Dibb (Director, Complex Systems Research Center/EOS)
  • Jennifer Jacobs (Director, Environmental Research Group)
  • Kevin Gardner (Environmental Research Group)
  • Cameron Wake (EOS and UNHSA)

Leadership Team for the "Sustainable Piscataqua – Sustainable Coasts" Researcher Learning Community

  • Alison Watts, Research Assistant Professor, ERG, Dept. Civil Engineering
  • Julia Peterson, Extension Specialist, NH Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension
  • Semra Aytur, Assistant Professor, Dept. Health Management and Policy
  • Stephen Jones, Research Associate Professor, Dept. Natural Resources and the Environment; and Assistant Director, NH Sea Grant Program

More Information

For more information, contact Cameron Wake or Sara Cleaves.

 

* Clark, W.C., & Dickson, N. M. (2003.) "Sustainability science: The emerging research program." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 100(14): 8059-8061.

* 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.