Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.51
Liaison Lacey Raak
Submission Date July 29, 2011
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

California State University, Monterey Bay
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Bob Rench
Associate Director
Campus Planning
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

Among other things, the campus has participated in the planning and carry out of our yearly Focus The Region events with collaboration and participation from faculty, staff and students from UC Santa Cruz, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Monterey Peninsula College, and Hartnell College. Will be presented at the California Sustainability Conference in July 2011.


The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

(Current) AASHE/STARS, ACUPCC, USGBC, CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference, CSUMB President's Climate Commitment Committee, Monterey County Business Council, Regional Climate Action Compact


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

CSUMB works with the following “campuses” to advance sustainability through meetings, workshops and conferences:
World Master's Games
Wellness for Older Women (WOW)
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Sustainability Academy
Offset Project of Monterey
ALBA
Community Agroecology Network(CAN)
AASHE
ARRA TOPS Irrigation Mgmt
Big Sur Environmental Institute
Focus the Nation
Monterey Pine Forest habitat
Economic Development for city(ies)
Project Learning Tree
MB Conservancy docent (Team Ocean) in Elkhorn slough
Marine Ecosystem Remote Sensing, SEP
NASA - CSUMB Cooperative Agreement (5019703A, Ecocast) NASA - ARRA projects (California Water Management)
NASA -ARRA (NEX/TOPS collaborative)
Olive Ridley Turtle Project, Dr. Manuel Carlos, Professor Emeritus
Salinas Asian Festival
First Night Monterey
Planet Ord http://planetord.com
Water, CA http://waterca.net Related to TAT, and SEP
Institute for Innovation
Public Service Policy Corps
Monterey College of Law
Naval PostGraduate School

And with the following campuses in the manner described:
Olson Elementary get their school garden up and working with plans to implement environmental curriculum with lower elementary grades once it is working.

First Sustainable Hospitality Symposium in the central coast of California; a collaboration effort between CSUMB and the Monterey Business Council.

NASA - CSUMB Cooperative Agreement 'Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling: Research, Technology Development, and Applications for Earth System Science and Education'

Postropolis Transportation Decision Simulation - Simlandia Research Group @ Arizona State University --> VESIC Lab @ CSUMB Cloverdale Virtual Watershed - Simlandia Research Group @ Arizona State University --> VESIC Lab @ CSUMB

Greater Vision agriculture conference held at CSUMB by the School of Business and the Foundation of the Grower Shipper Association

Project in Agua Buena, Costa Rica to study the supply chain of the CoopEPueblos Coffee Cooperative

Project: Cryptic Marine Mussel Invasion in California

Department: SEP Project: Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Central California Freshwater Systems

Department: SEP
Research on the environmental drivers controlling harmful cyanobacteria blooms and water quality at UCSC (Institute of Marine Sciences)

Several of the projects on the NASA Cooperative Agreement are strongly engaged in the study of environmental health and climate change (e.g. ecological forecasting, ecosystem and carbon simulation modeling, disaster management (wildfire, etc), applications to agriculture, coral reefs, and human health).

Sierra Club Conservation Committee Sierra Club Executive Committee Citizens for Sustainable Marina
Site Specific Native Plant Assessment and Restoration - Fort Ord, Science & Environmental Policy.

Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) - developed under CSUMB Cooperative agreement with NASA NASA Earth Exchange - developed under CSUMB Cooperative agreement with NASA

The Salinas Chinatown revitalization project, specifically the creation of an Asian Cultural Center in an existing abandoned building.

MRWMD, raising frogs

Green broom microenterprise for Salinas Chinatown

Water collection from fog - funded by NASA Ames as well as internally by CSUMB. Has implications to water resources and human water use.

Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership (WRAP) funded by NASA as an effort to look at ecological effects of wildfires and development of mitigation strategies for wildfire management improvements. Research as part of CSUMB / NASA Cooperative through SEP department.


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