环境中心 & 社会

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环境中心 & 社会是九州娱乐官网之间的桥梁 以及该地区丰富的自然和人力资源. 系列讲座、工作坊、 films and seminars provide new perspectives and professional development opportunities 为校园和更大的社区. 竞争性地授予学生奖学金 put students to work on real-world problems, allowing them to build a resume and establish 在专业领域的关系. 在创新的切萨皮克学期，学生们 range throughout the watershed, exploring the people, places and issues of the Chesapeake 在他们所有的复杂性. 中心支持教师的教学和研究 通过合作和提供对各种资源的访问. 它也有 领导学院履行美国学院的义务 & 大学 Presidents Climate Commitment, while acting as a catalyst in campus recycling, energy 储蓄和寻找替代能源. 在这种努力中获得的知识 has been transferred into surrounding municipalities and counties, allowing them to 实现显著的成本节约，同时降低碳足迹.

切萨皮克的地方 acknowledges that to understand the present and where we are headed, 我们需要明白我们都去过哪里. 它融合了文化和自然资源管理， with an additional emphasis on eco- and heritage tourism as an important regional 经济引擎.

这条河 & Field Campus (RAFC) offers 5,000 acres of farmland and forests for research and conservation, as well as 300 acres of experimental grasslands and the Foreman’s 科鸟天文台. 这些资源拓宽了研究和教学的机会 and strengthen the College’s link to the Eastern Shore’s working landscape and agriculture. 将来它将成为一个学生经营的农场的所在地.

The 自然土地项目 is a large-landscape effort to restore native grasses, wetlands, 森林遍布整个地区，在私人和公共土地上. 和它的草原 model based on the successful restoration at RAFC, this effort to improve biodiversity 水质是该州最大的栖息地恢复项目.

The 分水岭创新实验室 and its Chester River Watershed Observatory are an ambitious effort to comprehensively test, analyze, and understand the movement and quality of water in the watershed, at a level of detail achieved nowhere else on such a scale. It promises more refined modeling for the Chesapeake Bay and an approach that may 他被调到这个国家的其他地方.

The Center’s 地理信息系统(地理信息系统)计划 utilizes cutting edge spatial analysis technology to work on a wide range of problems, including analysis of urban tree canopies and green infrastructure, biodiversity and land-use, crime mapping, 栖息地和生态系统制图，以及社区愿景. 地理信息系统实验室和资源 such as research vessels (46 ft and 27 ft) offer research and training opportunities not only for 九州娱乐官网, but for local school children and their teachers.

Through these programs and others, the Center collaborates with communities, providing 解决当地问题的工具、资源和专业知识. 其他项目包括:社区 visioning, in which communities come together to reach consensus on local values and take charge of their future; analysis of land-use policies and comprehensive planning; tree planting and shoreline restoration projects; oyster gardening and fisheries restoration; professional development and training; and a wide variety of technical support. 华盛顿 大学生，环境中心的主要组成部分 & 的社会, are involved in all of these projects, putting their academic training to work while 九州娱乐官网.

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任务

We live in a world with increasing environmental and related social problems, rapidly 达到危机水平. 当我们朝着决心努力时，我们特别需要培养 未来的新一代富有创造力、以解决方案为导向的领导者. 一切 we do prepares our undergraduates – the next generation of leaders – to help solve the most pressing environmental problems of the 21st Century, through innovative curriculum, real-world 经历, training in cutting edge technologies, and new ways of thinking.

愿景

Our vision is a Chesapeake Bay and watershed that is healthy and thriving; one in 哪些自然系统和人类社区处于平衡状态. 强大的跨学科 academic programs promote the integration of environmental 以及社会价值观; through applied, real-world work, we prepare our graduates to be balanced and productive citizens, skilled and agile professionals, and champions and stewards of our natural and cultural 资源.

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The 环境与社会研究中心 at 九州娱乐官网 was created in 1999 to promote interdisciplinary learning, research and exemplary stewardship of natural 文化资源. 其主要目标是支持生态一体化 以及社会价值观.

In its early years, the Center focused primarily upon issues of sustainable agriculture on Maryland's Eastern Shore, along with educational programs to enhance the College's 环境研究课程. 与社会学系合作 & Anthropology, critical new data management and analytical technologies such as Geographic 信息系统，被带到校园.

While the mission of 消费电子产品展 has remained the same since its inception, its capabilities 自2006年以来显著扩张. 项目从区域农业发展而来 sustainability and environmental education to include estuarine studies and marine habitat assessment, the latter focus drawing the attention and interest of the National 公园管理局. Recognizing that the Center acts as a portal to one of the world’s greatest estuaries - the Chesapeake Bay, the Center, again in cooperation with archaeology, acquired remote sensing equipment including a side-scan sonar, marine magnetometers, acoustic seabed classification systems and hydrographic survey software, giving the 中心的能力，扩大其焦点从陆地到水. 显著增强 through the grant-supported internship and research associate programs, the Center's 适度的捐赠使人员编制得以扩大和巩固.

The Center continues to give 九州娱乐官网 students the opportunity to understand fully the relationship between human and natural environments and provide them with the technical knowledge, practical experience, and aesthetic perspective needed to 为了子孙后代的利益，推进这种关系.