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UCSC clearly has an amazing commitment to the environment! This is a partial list of campus and community organizations. Links marked with * have links to affiliates. If you would like to add an entry, please email mailto:pmmckerc@ucsc.edu. See also UCSC people involved in green initiatives)
List of all UCSC student-led organizations
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The Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department within the Jack Baskin School of Engineering features an interdisciplinary blend of engineering, biology, chemistry, and statistics designed to foster collaboration with other departments. Trent is working on algae biofuels.
CALPIRG is an independent statewide student organization that works on issues like environmental protection, consumer protection, and hunger and homelessness.
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR), formerly the GIS/ISC Laboratory, is the central facility for spatially-focused research and training at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CISR is focused on integrating state-of-of-the-art spatial technology and methods (geographic information systems, global positioning systems, remote sensing, spatial modeling/statistics) with pressing interdisciplinary research and fostering cross-domain cooperation in the application of these tools, for example of The Farm
Center for Global, International, & Regional Studies Innovation Sustainability
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS video overview. Offers annual $30K design competition.
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community Sadly, being discontinued due to budget cuts.
Center for Remote Sensing (CRS)
Center for the Study of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface
Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems update on partnership with Hartnell.
Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD)
Chadwick Garden begun by Alan Chadwick (se also Slugs in Action) video
Chemical Screening Center robotics, which looks at chemicals in the ocean, for example. video
Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory
College Eight and College Eight Sustainability Office
Community Agroecology Network (CAN)
Demeter Seed Library You can borrow seeds by attending a bi-monthly seed exchange or by simply contacting us and arranging a day to meet. The physical Library is located at the Oakes offices, room 307. Staff can be found in Oakes 309 and 311.
Digital Arts and New Media is creating Social Cost Tracker, an open-source mobile technology designed to promote just labor and ecological practices by informing consumer choices at the point of purchase. They have also done eco-art.
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
EcoLogic Design Lab Seeking to innovate, create and educate, the EcoLogic Design Lab was formed to facilitate a transition from ego-centric to eco-centric in the built environment – from detached ecological awareness to expansive connection with the local ecology and environment using evolutionary awareness and design tools to create high performance design.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology *
Electrical Engineering, including Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
Environmental Studies Department *
Environmental Toxicology Department
UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program (TSR&TP) is a University of California Multicampus Research Unit supporting research on toxic substances in the environment and teaching of graduate students through funding of grants, fellowships, and lead campus programs.
Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP)
GIS Lab Geographic Information Systems and Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Laboratory (GIS/ISC)
Global Information Internship Program is working with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the UCDC program. WRI is an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on objective research and analysis to produce real solutions to environmental and human problems. The UCDC program provides housing and credits for UC students to live for a school quarter in Washington, D.C. and intern with a governmental or non-governmental organization.
Institute of Marine Sciences*
Long Marine Lab video tour.
AffilatesVolunteer opportunities(video)
Museum of Natural History Collections (MNHC) The collections are organized for research and classroom use, but the museum has opened its collections for public view once a year since 2009. Randall Morgan's, a 1970 UCSC grad, plant and insect collections are the centerpiece of the museum and provide an invaluable resource for understanding local biodiversity and a unique opportunity for further research into plant/pollinator dynamics.
Ocean Sciences Department courses
UCSC Natural Reserves the larger system includes live webcams. UCTV series profiles. Yosemite station has internships. Yosemite article. The nearly 15-acre Forest Ecology Research Plot (FERP) located within the UC Santa Cruz Campus Natural Reserve has been accepted into the global network of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) / Global Earth Observatory (SIGEO).
Program in Community Agroecology (PICA)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, founded in 1903 and joined the University of California in 1912. The Innovative Marine Technology Laboratory (IMT Laboratory) is a research group of the Marine Physical Laboratory. As part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENtNt-kb3o&feature=relmfu A talk by research oceanographer and photographer Dale Stokes for a global photographic journey featuring ships, submarines, underwater habitats, and both poles. This presentation includes a decade of images documenting exotic locations underwater and topside and a variety of unusual vessels and research instruments.
STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research was established in 2002 as a campus-wide effort to facilitate interdisciplinary environmental research across the university’s Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, Division of Social Sciences, and Baskin School of Engineering. Provides funding for student research.
Students for Organic Solutions
Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program is provided by the University of California Office of the President and by the Institute for Humanities Research
UCSC Green Campus Program
White Mountain Research Station near Bishop CA, alpine research. Google Earth project
