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Ecogenetics and Environmental Health Center
CEEH endeavors to “foster collaborations” and “catalyze development of multi-investigator grants” in order to “understand and communicate how genetic factors influence human susceptibility to environmental health risks.”
International Scholars in Occupational & Environmental Health
ISOEH “[provides] training in occupational and environmental health to scientists and professionals in collaborating countries” and “[maintains] and [reinforces] the strong existing collaborative inter-institutional relationships through training and research.”
Geographic Areas: Costa Rica, Thailand, Vietnam, and Nicaragua
International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR) Center
CINTRAFOR helps forest products exports by: Collecting & distributing information on rapidly changing foreign markets, including consumption trends, distribution channels, trading systems, codes/standards & the regulatory environment; Applying research findings to technical, environmental, economic, social & resource management problems that impede exports of specific products; and Training forest products professionals by providing funding for graduate level research on the international trade of forest products.
Joint Institute for Study in Atmospheric & Ocean
JISAO “supports postdoctoral fellows” by “[providing] space, computer time, administrative support, and other services” as well as by “funding research scientists” in order to advance the research of climate, global environmental chemistry, marine ecosystems, and coastal oceanography.
Multinational Collaboration and Challenges to Environment / IGERT
Funds the University of Washington-Sichuan University Program on Scientific, Engineering and Social Challenges to the Environment, a collaboration between the University of Washington and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China that “[focuses] on five research areas: biodiversity, water resources, forest ecology, environmentally-friendly eco- materials, and human-environment interaction.”
Geographic Areas: South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam
Northwest Center for Particulate Matter and Health
PM Center conducts research in order to “provide information crucial to understanding and preventing [particulate matter] associated health effects.” Although this research focuses on the Pacific Northwest it can, “together with that of other groups around the world…..contribute to decisions about air quality standards and to the understanding of how we are affected by the air we breathe.”
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
NWCPHP links academia with the community in the Pacific Northwest by “[providing] support and training in the areas of environmental health, clinical laboratories, pharmaceuticals, and public health informatics.”
Occupational Safety & Environmental Health Program (Fogarty)
Polar Science Center
The PSC [contributes] to [the] understanding [of] the earth's climate cycles with satellite and in situ sensing of ocean winds, currents, and air-sea fluxes. Operated by the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Geographic Areas: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
Program on Environment
POE “[promotes] interdisciplinary environmental education at the University of Washington (UW). PoE offers an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies, a Minor in Environmental Studies, and two graduate certificate programs. PoE merges the fields of natural sciences; social sciences; law, policy and management; and ethics values and culture through rigorous coursework and hands-on learning within the community to provide a unique opportunity for students and faculty to explore complex environmental issues from multiple perspectives.
Geographic Areas: Australia and New Zealand
Program on Ocean Governance
POG “[monitors] trends in national and regional ocean governance and will provide a forum for interested parties to discuss topics pertaining to the nation’s oceans and coasts.”
Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model Program
PRISM “a collaborative partnership among state, federal, tribal, and University leaders” that “[integrates] both cultural and physical systems that operate in Puget Sound” with the “unifying theme” of “the processes and role that water plays in our natural and cultural environment.”
Sichuan University Program
The UW-Sichuan Program develops research in the five areas of biodiversity, water resources, forest ecology, environmentally-friendly (eco-) materials, and human-environment interaction through collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
Geographic Areas: China
Study in the Earth System Center
CSES
“performs integrated research on the impacts of climate on the U.S. Pacific Northwest by combining and integrating expertise in climate dynamics, ecological dynamics, hydrologic dynamics, and institutional and policy analysis.”
Urban Ecology Research Laboratory
UERL “works to understand and improve the conditions of human-dominated ecosystems by conducting interdisciplinary research, integrating analytical and participatory approaches to problem-solving, and engaging policy makers and the public in the generation and use of scientific knowledge.”