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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)
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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 the Study of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface
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 Sustainable Agriculture
Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD)
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)
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 *
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
Institute of Marine Sciences*
Long Marine video tour.
AffilatesVolunteer opportunities
UCSC Natural Reserves the larger system includes live webcams. UCTV series profiles. Yosemite station has internships. Yosemite article.
Program in Community Agroecology (PICA)
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
UCSC Green Campus Program
White Mountain Research Station near Bishop CA, alpine research. Google Earth project
