ISSE Centers & Initiatives
ISSE's specialized centers, programs, and initiatives address a range of issues that fall under the broad rubric of sustainability.
ISSE Centers and Programs:
ISSE houses several centers and programs that represent a full complement of skills and disciplines.
- Center for Clean Products - CCP develops, evaluates, and promotes cleaner products and cleaner technologies that minimize pollution at the source and contribute to long-term sustainable development.
- Community Partnership Center - CPC is a research and outreach center that links university resources with urban and rural community organizations to address local needs and issues.
- East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition - ETCFC promotes the use of alternative fuels, reduced reliance on foreign sources of oil, and improved air quality for the East Tennessee region. ETCFC is a participant in the national Clean Cities Program of the US Department of Energy.
- Southeastern Water Resources Institute - SWRI is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research entity devoted to the study of science, technology, and public policy issues related to surface and ground water.
- Southern Appalachian Information Node - SAIN, as part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), is a consortium of public and private partners who work together to build and maintain an integrated information system that serves as the gateway to regional biological information.
- Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Program - SAMAB is a public/private partnership that identifies and implements resource management and sustainability activities spanning political and geographic boundaries in the Southern Appalachians.
- Tennessee Multihazard Mitigation Consortium - TMMC was formed to assist in reducing future losses from natural and technological hazards by conducting research on various hazards and ways to mitigate their effects, developing educational tools, and working with other state and federal organizations in reducing losses.
- Tennessee Solid Waste Education Project - TNSWEP fulfills the Tennessee Solid Waste Management Act's requirement that solid waste education be provided to the state's K-12 students.
- Tennessee Water Resources Research Center - TNWRRC is a federally designated state research institute supported in part by the US Geological Survey. The center serves as a primary link among water-resource experts in academia, government, and the private sector.
ISSE/ORNL Initiatives:
ISSE is partnering with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to create collaborative initiatives that capitalize on the collective resources.
- Center for Climate Change and Environment - CCCE is a new initiative between ISSE and ORNL. Additional information will be coming soon.
- China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change - The China-US JRC, which occupies research facilities at UT/ORNL and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, addresses the environmental consequences of biofuels production and use, and the combined effects of climate change and human activities on regional and global ecosystems.