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Research Focus: Healthy Air, Land and Water

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March 1, 2021

Each year, March 22 is designated by the United Nations as World Water Day, to bring attention to the critical value of clean water for all peoples. The UN launched the Valuing Water Initiative in 2019 to bring systemic change in the way water is valued in decision-making to ensure we can live in a sustainable water-secure world. 

Ensuring water security requires many disciplines working together. For us as researchers, we need to build interdisciplinary teams to maximize our impact.  Therefore, we are excited to host a panel of internal and external experts to share their experience and knowledge on interdisciplinary research. Please come to this virtual panel and ask probing questions. Then, also please attend our next Flow and Terroir in which we will talk about upcoming RFPs and brainstorm ideas and maybe even help new teams form.

How to Develop, Win and Execute Interdisciplinary Grants for Research, March 30, 10:30 a.m.
Join the Sustainability Institute’s "Healthy Air, Land and Water Seminar: How to Develop, Win and Execute Interdisciplinary Grants for Research" to explore how to submit winning grants and what to do once the grant has been awarded. Discussion will focus on the process for submitting proposals, finding collaborators and avoiding pitfalls.

Flow and Terroir, First Thursday of the month, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Upcoming Flow and Terroir gatherings:
March 4: Review of SI: HALW Activities and Plans — How can we best support faculty?
April 1: Upcoming grant submissions — Interest and team development
(Please contact Kathy Jackson for Zoom invites to Flow and Terroir.)

If you want to learn more about water safety and security, here are other opportunities to provide faculty, staff and students information on what’s happening with water quality and security issues at Ohio State and beyond:

Global Water Institute leads effort to improve water and food security with the Navajo Nation
A new effort led by researchers at Ohio State will help the Navajo Nation mitigate issues of lack of water and food security at a time when the Navajo communities are facing new challenges due to COVID-19.

EPN Webinar: Equity strategies in water affordability for marginalized communities, March 9, 10 a.m.
Ohio State’s Environmental Professionals Network, partnering with the Water Management Association of Ohio and the TerrAqua student organization, are co-hosting this virtual event to focus attention on water affordability and equity strategies to support residents in marginalized communities.

UN World Water Day 2021 Webinar, March 22
The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) is organizing the 3rd Webinar on Global Water Security with an emphasis on the fundamental issues of global water security.

Linda Weavers, civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, and Jay Martin, food, agricultural and biological engineering
Sustainability Institute Healthy Air, Land and Water research leaders