The Environmental Science and Design Research Initiative (ESDRI) was excited to be able to offer competitively awarded seed grant funding to research teams in Spring Semester 2018. ESDRI was established in 2017 to support faculty efforts to achieve continued scholarly success in areas of research concerning both natural and built systems.
The projects funded demonstrate the broad nature of scholarly activity addressing the environment at 聚色阁, including projects related to climate change, urban health and forest restoration. The teams were chosen based on their creative and cutting-edge nature, breadth of the interdisciplinary team and future funding potential.
The teams and projects that received funding:
Scott Sheridan (Geography), Terry Schwarz (Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative)