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SDEP gives 2007 Award for Outstanding Research

San Diego Environmental Professional Association (SDEP) gives 2007 Award for Outstanding Research to project jointly led by UCSD’s Environment and Sustainability Initiative (ESI) and Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP)

On June 12, 2007, Keith Pezzoli and Hiram Sarabia of UCSD’s Urban Studies and Planning Program, Environment and Sustainability Initiative (ESI), and Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) received the 2007 San Diego Environmental Professional’s Association Award (SDEP) for Outstanding Research. Pezzoli and Sarabia are creating a Regional Ecology Network and Environmental Workbench for Sustainable Development (RENEW-SD) as part of a campus wide effort funded by UCSD’s ESI and SBRP. The RENEW-SD research team is currently testing the use of new biomolecular technologies (bioassays) to track the sources of certain organic toxicants (i.e., PAHs and PCBs) in San Diego’s Pueblo Watershed while working closely a diverse array of federal, state and regional government, community and research stakeholders. The SDEP awarded the RENEW-SD project for its “contributions to advancing the standards of practice in the environmental professional community of San Diego.” In line with ESI’s mission and the mission of the SBRP’s Research Translation Core, the RENEW-SD project aims to improve science communication, knowledge networking, environmental management, regulation and policy-making in the San Diego-Tijuana city-region. The approach is multidisciplinary and collaborative with an emphasis on deploying emerging technologies while building models to address sustainability challenges facing coastal cities. Pezzoli and Sarabia, have a track record of almost 30 years of combined work focusing on the San Diego-Tijuana region’s environmental and sustainability issues. The award includes a $1000 cash prize that will be used to further the involvement of students
in environmental research.

RENEW-SD web site: http://renew-sd.ucsd.edu/
UCSD ESI web site: http://esi.ucsd.edu/
UCSD SBRP web site: http://superfund.ucsd.edu/

05/18 at 10:57 AM in Research Support Cores • Research Translation Core • (0) Comments