Environmental Science and Technology Center

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“Environmental resources management is a key international priority, one that presents complex challenges to the global community. Mason’s partnership with China’s Tsinghua University through the Environmental Science and Technology Center represents a major step forward in international collaboration on these issues. Our goal is to provide the knowledge, data, and methodologies that support international decision-making in environmental management and sustainable development issues.”

John J. Qu, PhD, director of the Environmental Science and Technology Center

The Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) is a joint interdisciplinary center (with China) focusing on global environmental and climate monitoring, global carbon measuring, flood forecasting and defense, water resources management, ecological protection and restoration, and Earth observations.

Environmental Science and Technology Center

Informing the Global Community

ESTC brings together researchers from various cultural backgrounds and gives them high-level approaches, international vision, and in-depth knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of environmental and climate research. The Center’s faculty teaches the skills, tools, and methodologies to support a global approach for solving complex problems. ESTC has been supporting the international activities of Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) which is one of commissions of World Meteorological Organization (WMO), such as World AgroMeteorological Information Service (WAMIS) system.

International Research

Among the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research projects planned are those using land, water, and atmosphere environmental remote sensing technology. ESTC is creating joint US–China environment and climate projects with domestic and international partners.

New Partnerships

As one of Mason’s newest research centers, ESTC is developing collaborations with groups that have research capabilities in weather, wildfire data, and hydroscience, among others. Partners include EastFIRE Laboratory (part of Mason’s College of Science), State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering of Tsinghua University (SKLHSE), and National Centre for Agrometerology (NCAM), part of Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea and Edith Cowan University (ECU) Western Australia.

Opportunities

For more information about ESTC research and educational opportunities , contact the director, John J. Qu, and visit http://estc.gmu.edu.

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  Imagine charting stars and celestial gases in about 40,000 nearby galaxies. That’s the responsibility facing Mason astronomer Jessica Rosenbe
  
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- Examining Cultural Implications of Climate Change
  
  Anthropologist Susan Crate found that the way of life for Siberian natives she has studied for more than 20 years is drastically changing.
  
  For more than 20 years, anthropologist Susan Crate has traveled to northeastern Siberia to work with a group of native horse and cattle breeders.
  
  Crate, an assistant professor of human ecology in Mason’s Department of Environmental Science and Policy, is currently working on a project that focuses on how global climate change affects Siberian natives’ livelihood and culture.
  
  Fluent in Russian and Sakha (the Turkic language of the Sakha people) Crate has...
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  Tackling the Mysterious Disease Plaguing the American Lobster
  
  Mason Professor Patrick Gillevet is part of a research consortium studying a bacterial infection affecting New England lobster
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Nuclear Energy Expert Seeks Disposal Solutions

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Examining Cultural Implications of Climate Change

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Husband and Wife Team have Big Ideas for Big Cat Conservation

Commercial Space Flight Takes Science into Orbit

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Doctoral Student Looks at Group Ranching in Kenya

Tackling the Mysterious Disease Plaguing the American Lobster

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