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

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.

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

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.