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CREST - RESSACA
The Center fosters fundamental research and development for promoting the concepts of sustainability of ecological and environmental systems in the semi-arid coastal areas of South Texas and the border region. It promotes basic and applied research, technology development and transfer, research/education integration, and environmental education in both formal and informal domains. The Center has developed integrative research partnerships with institutions along the U.S./Mexico border from Texas to California and seek binational partnerships with counterpart researchers in Mexico. The Center structure also promotes a synthesis of interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer among researchers, public policy and planning agencies, and the public to address the critical issues of environmental sustainability of semi-arid coastal areas along the border, a critical zone of binational trade driven by NAFTA and one undergoing dramatic economic growth that places enormous, and often competing demands, on infrastructures and the environment. The CREST RESSACA II Center is structured around three major research initiatives: Environmental Modeling and Informatics (EMI), Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMA), and Sustainable Technologies for the Environment (STE). |
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