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ISE Research to Action Webinar Series
To leverage Mason’s research strengths and maximize impact, the Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) has identified six research themes to serve as focal points around which to build transdisciplinary communities of research and practice. To highlight each of the six research themes, ISE is organizing a Research to Action webinar series designed to explore the intersecting dimensions of key sustainability goals, discuss the interactions between research and practice, and inspire novel collaborations to identify solutions. The first webinar of the series is on Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Ecosystems and will be co-hosted by ISE and the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC). This webinar will highlight urban and peri-urban sustainability and resilience challenges – including systemic interactions with terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The speakers will also address work being done to support the development of communities that are environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive, economically productive, and resilient to shocks and significant stress.
- Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
- Time: 11am - 12pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
Moderator
Celso Ferreira, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Volgenau School of Engineering.
Panelists
Elise Miller-Hooks, Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Volgenau School of Engineering.
Tonya Thornton, Research Assistant Professor and Director of Grants, Schar School of Policy and Government.
Bambi Semroc, Acting Head, Senior Vice-President, Sustainable Lands and Waters, Conservation International.
Stefanie Kupka, Sustainability Coordinator, Department of Community Development & Planning, Environment, City of Fairfax.
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Make an Impact with Mason’s Entrepreneurship Programs
ISE faculty are invited to come learn about the Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP), a Mason program that helps faculty on their path to bring their work to the world. This can include traditional commercialization, creating a social venture or non-profit, or developing a plan unique to your work. ICAP is partnered with resilience-focused organizations throughout the Commonwealth and has worked with over 100 faculty and student teams. If you are not able to make the event, but would like to learn more, please reach out to Josh Green.
- Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021
- Time: 12pm - 1:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Partnering Opportunity
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) is a combination career and volunteer organization providing fire suppression, emergency medical, technical rescue, hazardous materials, water rescue, life safety education, fire prevention and arson investigation services. FCFRD operates 38 fire stations 24/7 serving the needs of over 1M residents and visitors and answers over 100k calls for service annually, with 1,500 career firefighters and over 300 operational volunteers. FCFRD is interested in partnering with GMU for studies and investigations in health research, human factors engineering, data analytics and other areas. If you are interested in partnering with FCFRD, please contact Rebekah Hersch.
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ISE Faculty Profiles
The ISE faculty directory is a tool for you to find others with complementing expertise and for external and internal audiences to find you! If you haven’t yet submitted your research profile information for the directory, please complete your profile here.
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Probabilistic Resilience Assessment of Bridges under Multiple Hazards
Mason's Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) is hosting discussion by Mostafa Badroddin on a probabilistic approach to assess the effects of seismic, flood-induced scour, and chloride-induced corrosion hazards on river-crossing bridges. Also, it describes how the scour countermeasure contributes to lifecycle resilience enhancement. Finally, a robust nonparametric distribution-based approach is introduced to determine the sequential evolution of time-varying resilience.
- Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021
- Time: 11am ET
- Location: Virtual
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An Intimate Conversation with Danny Glover
- Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
- Time: 5:00pm - 7:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
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Galileo Science Cafe: Toward a Model of Interpersonal Trust Drawn from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
Mason's College of Science is hosting Galileo's science cafe. In this talk, Dr. Frank Krueger sketches out an integrative neuropsychoeconomic (NPE) model that explains how the interactions of psychoeconomic components engage domain-general large-scale brain networks in shaping trust behavior over time. Dr. Krueger will also address the caveats of current research approaches and outline open questions that can help guide future transdisciplinary investigations to advance our understanding of interpersonal trust and advocate for a more trusting and inclusive society.
- Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021
- Time: 6:45pm - 9:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
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Health Insurance in The US: A Facilitator and Barrier to Health Care Access
- Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
- Time: 12pm ET
- Location: Virtual
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STAR-TIDES Webinar | Narrative Research: ‘Standing Under’ Community Stories to Create Social Intelligence
In this webinar, the first in the 2021 series by STAR-TIDES and Mason's Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC), Dr. Sara Cobb will begin by reviewing “narrative” as a concept and why it is essential to any effort to understand what is going on in a place or space. She will describe approaches to narrative research including “everyday indicators” derived from local stories as a methodology, with examples drawn from her research in the Arctic. This will lead to a summary of what narrative research can afford and enable in the areas of community engagement and trust building. She also will describe how it is essential in addressing the politics of marginalization.
- Date: Friday, February 5
- Time: 12pm ET
- Location: Virtual
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2021 Ashoka U Exchange
Mason's Business for a Better World Center is hosting the 2021 Ashoka U Exchange, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. Building on Ashoka’s vision for a world where Everyone is a Changemaker, Ashoka U takes an institutional change approach to impact the education of millions of students.
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NEW: Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
Virginia Sea Grant is now accepting applications for the 2022 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. The fellowship provides a one-year, paid experience for highly-qualified early career professionals to work on issues related to coastal, marine, and Great Lakes science and policy in offices within the executive or legislative branch of government in the Washington, D.C. area.
- Funding source: VA Sea Grant
- Anticipated funding amount: $84,000
- Deadline: February 19, 2021
- Contact: Sam Lake
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Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
This funding opportunity aims to support research to strengthen the healthcare response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and future public health emergencies, including pandemics. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to focus on the role and impact of digital health interventions [e.g., mobile health (mhealth), telemedicine and telehealth, health information technology (IT), and wearable devices] to address access, reach, delivery, effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of health assessments and interventions for secondary effects (e.g., behavioral health or self-management of chronic conditions) that are utilized during and following the pandemic, particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations.
- Funding source: National Institutes of Health
- Anticipated funding amount: $2,250,000
- Deadline: March 2, 2021
- Contact: Adam Haim
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Connected Communities
Connected Community (CC) is a group of grid-interactive efficient buildings GEB with diverse, flexible end use equipment and other distributed energy resources (DERs) that collectively work to maximize building, community, and grid efficiency. Under this FOA, DOE will select a portfolio of “Connected Community” projects totaling up to $65 million in varying climates, geographies, building types, building vintages, DERs utility/grid/regulatory structures and resource bases. Through funding these projects, DOE hopes to find and share technical and market solutions that will increase demand flexibility and energy efficiency. - Funding source: Department of Energy
- Anticipated funding amount: $19,000,000
- Deadline: March 3, 2021
- Contact
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Build and Broaden 2.0
Build and Broaden 2.0 (B2 2.0) encourages research collaborations between scholars at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and scholars in other institutions or organizations. Growing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a national priority. National forecasts of the impending shortage of science and engineering skills and essential research workforce underscore a need to expand opportunities to participate in STEM research. NSF has taken steps to expand participation by focusing on research communities that are not well-represented in the federal research system. Through these steps, NSF is working to expand the volume and increasing the diversity, interconnectedness, and effectiveness of STEM workforce.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 25 to 30
- Anticipated funding amount: $5,000,000
- Deadline: March 5, 2021
- Contact: Lee Walker
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Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRCs) are public-private partnerships that catalyze breakthrough, cutting-edge, pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry, academic teams, and government agencies. These Centers have three primary goals: (1) conducting high-impact research to meet the critical and shared needs of commercial and governmental entities that require better fundamental understandings of processes, mechanisms, and problems that they are unable to carry out internally; (2) moving fundamental research results to society and/or the marketplace via innovation and technology development; and (3) mentoring and developing a diverse, highly skilled, science and engineering workforce that understands how to work with industry and translate research results into understandings, products, and technologies that benefit society and the economy. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 10
- Anticipated funding amount: $20,500,000
- Deadline: Preliminary Proposal: March 10, 2021; Full proposal: June 09, 2021
- Contact: Prakash Balan
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Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three Program
The purpose of this program is to build integrated maternal and early childhood systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, comprehensive, and inclusive of the health system, and that promote early developmental health and family well-being and increase family-centered access to care and engagement of the prenatal-to-3 year old (P–3) population. A maternal and early childhood system of care brings together health, early care and education, child welfare, and other human services and family support program partners—as well as community leaders, families, and other stakeholders—to achieve agreed-upon goals for thriving children and families. - Funding source: Department of Health and Human Services
- Estimated Number of Awards: 20
- Anticipated funding amount: $5,112,000
- Deadline: March 15, 2021
- Contact: Ekaterina Zoubak
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Integrative Research in Biology
This solicitation invites submission of collaborative proposals that tackle bold questions in biology and require an integrated approach to make substantive progress. The research should be synergistic and produce novel, holistic understanding of how biological systems function and interact across different scales of organization, e.g., from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species to ecosystems and the entire Earth. Such knowledge is critical to inform solutions to societal challenges, including natural resource management, resilience to environmental change, and global food security. Outcomes from integrative research will also inform and guide the development of new technologies that drive the nation’s bioeconomy. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 10 to 20
- Anticipated funding amount: $15,000,000 to $20,000,000
- Deadline: March 16, 2021
- Contact: Karen Cone
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Dimensions of Biodiversity
The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and focuses on the intersection of genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals must integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions among them. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 6
- Anticipated funding amount: $12,000,000
- Deadline: March 26, 2021
- Contact: Katharina Dittmar
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Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2020, solicits basic and applied research in support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). ROSES is an omnibus NRA, with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. - Funding source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Anticipated funding amount: Program will fund ~1250 proposals totalling ~$600 million over the lifetime of the awards
- Deadline: April 14, 2021
- Contact: Max Bernstein
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People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition
EPA's P3 - People, Prosperity and the Planet – Program is a unique competition that is open to teams of university students working to design solutions for a sustainable future. P3 offers students hands-on experience that brings their classroom learning to life, while also allowing them to create tangible changes in their communities.This annual, two-phased research grants program challenges students to research, develop, and design innovative projects that address real world challenges involving all areas of environmental protection and public health. Phase I serves as a “proof of concept,” where teams are awarded a one-year grant of up to $25,000 to develop their idea and showcase their research in the spring at EPA's National Student Design Expo. These teams are then eligible to compete for a Phase II grant of up to $100,000 to implement their design in a real world setting.
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Science Policy Fellowship
The Gulf Research Program’s Science Policy Fellowship program helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems. Fellows gain first-hand experience as they spend one year on the staff of federal, state, local, or non-governmental environmental, natural resource, oil and gas, and public health agencies in the Gulf of Mexico region.
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Commonwealth Coastal & Marine Policy Fellowship
Get on-the-job training and policy experience with a state agency or NGO. Hone your professional skills while improving the stewardship of the Commonwealth’s coastal and marine resources. This program aims to increase the capacity of state agency or non-governmental organization host offices by supporting fellows who are working on mission-related programs. Applicants should be graduate students close to completing their degree (Master's, Ph.D., or J.D.) at a Virginia university or college in a field relevant to coastal and marine policy issues field.
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WM Sustainability ForumThe WM Sustainability Forum is a two-day event that brings together a mix of experts, customers, academia, government employees, non-government organizations, businesses and the next generation of leaders to share insights, exchange ideas and create innovative strategies.
- Date: February 3 - February 4, 2021
- Time: 10:30am ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021
The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) is the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability – it will be a space of fierce advocacy for sustainability scholarship, innovation, collaboration and action. The annual event unites global sustainability leaders, experts, industry and innovators to inspire action and promote a sustainability transformation.
SRI2021 will be a hybrid event, with a diverse and innovative online program alongside onsite participation in Brisbane, Australia. SRI2021 will take place June 12-15, 2021 with activities, networking, training and more both prior and following the event. SRI is a joint initiative of Future Earth and the Belmont Forum. Early-bird registration for SRI2021 is now open.
- Date: June 12-15, 2021
- Location: Hybrid model: online programs alongside onsite participation in Brisbane, Australia
- Registration
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The Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) aims to connect members of the Mason community with others across the Mason community–and with other communities, policy-makers, businesses and organizations–so that, together, we can more effectively address the world’s pressing sustainability and resilience challenges.
The ISE Newsletter provides up-to-date information on conferences, funding opportunities, and research pertaining to environmental science and sustainability. The biweekly newsletter aims to facilitate information sharing among researchers, practitioners, and relevant local, national, and international organization.
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