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\n\n \n Three centers will support original solutions to environmental and sustainability challenges\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n By<\/span>Kathryn Royster<\/strong>\n \n March 1, 2022<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES) is launching three new research centers to support original, solutions-focused work on the world\u2019s most pressing environmental and sustainability challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wrigley Institute Research Centers mark a bold and important step in our journey to becoming one of the nation\u2019s premier environmental and sustainability programs,\u201d says Wrigley Institute Director and USC psychology professor\u00a0Joe \u00c1rvai<\/a>. \u201cWe have a long tradition of serving as a launchpad for diverse faculty-led projects, and this new arrangement adds resources to support institute-led research from across a wider array of disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each of WIES\u2019s three new research centers will focus on a specific theme: Earth and Environmental Systems, Applied Environmental Solutions, and Social Transformation. The three centers will merge the interdisciplinary expertise of the Wrigley Institute\u2019s affiliated faculty, full-time senior scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students to better understand and help to solve environmental and sustainability challenges. Going forward, WIES\u2019s\u00a0Faculty Innovation Awards<\/a>\u00a0will expand in size and will seed projects to be completed within the new centers.<\/p>\n

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Wrigley Institute Research Specialist Troy Gunderson (center) helps set up a sampling array on a SPOT cruise in the San Pedro Channel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Focused on the physical sciences, the\u00a0Center for Earth and Environmental Systems\u00a0monitors the natural systems that make up our environment and develops scientific insights about our changing planet. By drawing on the latest research in fields such as marine biology, oceanography, microbiology, geology, and terrestrial ecology, the center seeks to improve our understanding of the environmental changes that may imperil our future. The Wrigley Institute\u2019s\u00a0San Pedro Ocean Time-series program, which measures the health of the urban ocean adjacent to Los Angeles, falls under this umbrella, as will new research and monitoring initiatives on land and at sea.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Center for Applied Environmental Solutions\u00a0addresses the manifold and growing environmental challenges facing our world. It serves as WIES\u2019s research and development hub, with a focus on turning science into action by testing the feasibility of new ideas and determining how to convert them into workable practices and technology. The institute\u2019s\u00a0kelp-to-biofuel project, which has garnered international attention, is one of the current cornerstones of this center. Applied Environmental Solutions also supports depolymerization work led by Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry\u00a0Megan Fieser<\/a>, whose lab is developing chemical methods for recycling commercial plastics such as PVC.<\/p>\n

Through the\u00a0Center for Social Transformation, WIES is expanding its reach to encompass the social sciences, humanities, and arts. \u201cProblems of sustainability and the environment touch on every aspect of our lives. They\u2019re also becoming more urgent by the day, so it\u2019s important that we address them from as many angles as possible,\u201d says Wrigley Institute Associate Director for Research and Engagement Jessica Dutton. Projects developed under this center investigate how people think, what they believe, and, ultimately, how they behave with regard to sustainability and the environment. The center\u2019s goal is to generate insights that will help influence policy and people\u2019s decisions to protect and heal our planet. Initiatives in this center include Professor of History William Deverell\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe West on Fire\u201d project<\/a>, which is looking at the social causes of wildfire and better ways to prevent it and live with it, and \u00c1rvai\u2019s Judgment and Decision-Making Lab, which studies how people think and behave when confronted with a wide range of environmental risks and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWrigley Institute launches new research centers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/wrigley\/2022\/03\/01\/wrigley-institute-launches-new-research-centers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wrigley Institute launches new research centers - 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