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Global Environmental Impact Symposium

WELCOME

Global Environmental Impact

• Dr. Teik C. Lim

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Completed:

üEnhanced the Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies – greater research in environmental science and built faculty strength in this area. üEnhanced the continuing and professional education aimed at environmental effects, regulation & compliance. üEstablished a UNESCO chair with a focus on water.

Planning (select items):

üStrengthen existing and develop new interdisciplinary programs including sustainable urban design. üExpand the current sustainability institute to a university level center with stronger ties to academic programs. üDevelop programs in Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), including a master’s degree, training certifications and undergrad specialization. üEnhance focus in water resources, planning and policy § New programs and initiatives water resources, conservation, pollution, and disaster mitigation (water & human settlements, Tanzania study abroad program, water for peace project, etc.) § Strengthen interdisciplinary research in urban water resources, water quality and environment § Develop strong ties to Texas Water Resource Authorities and other regional/national/international agencies to enhance research and training efforts § Build strengths in analytics related to water planning & policy

G L O B A L E N V I R O N M E N TA L I M PA C T- P R O G R E S S

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NEW FACULTY (Since Fall ‘17)

CAPPA

Diane Jones Allen Joowon Im Adrian Parr

COED

Michelle Hummel

COE

Kathleen Smits Sunand Santhanagopalan Caroline Krejci Michael Zaretsky

COS

Luke Frishkoff Dan Welling Elijah Wostl

SSW

Zhen Cong

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POSSIBLE NEW/ ENHANCED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

CAPPA

Sustainable Urban Design

COE

Sustainable Urban Design Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Engineering of Biomedical Systems Chemical Engineering

COS

Bio & Environmental Analysis (Prof MS) EES/ Environmental Track Environmental Science

SSW

Environment and Disasters Social behavioral aspects of global environmental impact

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Possible New/Enhanced Focus Areas

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5 üSustainability and global impact üEnvironmental health and safety üWater resources, planning and policy

§ Urban water resources § Water quality and environment § Analytics related to water planning & policy § Disaster recovery

üEnergy management, sustainability, and efficiency

§ Power management and control § Sustainable energy technologies § Campus-wide facilities to increase energy savings and operational efficiencies

ü Center for Environments Excellence and Environmental Training Agency (DED) üSustainable solid waste management üChemical contamination & chemical manufacturing üInvasive species üLand-atmosphere interactions üUnderground infrastructure construction and renewal technologies üExposome Project (EES, Environmental Chemistry) üBRIT-Biology Collaboration in Plant Biology (Considering a new Center for Plant Research) üSocial behavioral aspects of GEI research theme

§ Social vulnerability and resilience § Community engagement and outreach § Interdisciplinary and multilevel approach to global environmental impact

Global Environmental Impact Symposium

Global Environmental Impact

• Dr. Duane Dimos

Vice President, Office of the Vice President for Research

UTA Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions | Global Impact

Global Environmental Impact

“UTA will address critical issues that affect our planet, including climate change, energy water, disasters, and

• pollution. By analyzing global population

dynamics, we will develop an understanding of our world – and solutions for its problems – through avenues ranging from environmental economics to history.”

22.1% 7.8% 13.1% 12.4% 9.3% 17.3% 7.8% 6.8% 3.4%

20 40 60 80 100 120 2015 2016 2017 2018

Total Research Expenditures ($M)

$77.9 $86.1 $94.2 $101.1

Update on UT Arlington

• Carnegie Foundation Research 1 institution (initially R1 in 2015, reaffirmed in 2018)
• Research Expenditures exceeded $100M, 30 % growth in three years, broad portfolio
• Restricted Research expenditures exceeded $45M (Tier 1 criteria) in 2018 for the 1st time
• Graduated > 200 PhDs each of the last 5 years
• With a newly elected National Academy of Engineering member and two new national

academy hires, we met all Tier 1 criteria this year

NSF DHHS/ NIH DOD DOC DOE Other Federal State Corporat e/Local Gifts

22.1% 7.8% 13.1% 12.4% 9.3% 17.3% 7.8% 6.8% 3.4%

Global Environmental Impact: Water

• A. Parr (CAPPA Dean) – UNESCO Chair for Water and Human Settlements
• Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis & Remediation

(K. Schug, Chemistry)

• Assessing and monitoring how oil and gas extraction activities in Texas can impact

water quality as a result of the fracking process

• Urban Water Institute (D.J. Seo, Director)
• Numerous projects related to flood control and flood warning
• Biology – Numerous projects related to environmental ecology and impacts of

water quality of health of the environment

• English – Climate history, relationship with people & their natural environments
• Political Science – Disaster recovery

Global Environmental Impact: Energy

• Energy Systems Research Center (W-J. Lee, Director)
• Microgrid for power management research
• Research with ONR on ship board power (D. Wetz, A. Davoudi, R. Madani)
• Center for Renewable Energy, Science & Technology (co-Directors: B. Dennis,

MAE and K. Rajeshwar, Chem)

• Developing a commercially viable technology for natural gas to liquid fuel production
• Energy storage: Li-ion batteries and other
• Solar energy materials
• Sol-gro: entrepreneurial start up based on UTA patent (W. Chen, Physics)
• Energy management in big data centers (D. Agonafer, I/UCRC)

Global Environmental Impact: Environmental Issues

• Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (S. Hossain, Director)
• Waste management issues throughout our area
• International engagement – Winter School, Ethiopia contract, many others
• Chemical contamination – EES, Chemistry, Civil Eng.
• Greener chemical manufacturing – Chemistry
• Invasive species – Biology

• A. Winguth (EES) – Assessing historic global warning for insights today
• NSF Big Ideas – Navigating the New Arctic
• NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/climate/
• DOE: https://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/climate-change
• DoD: https://www.globalchange.gov/agency/department-defense
• DoD Center for Climate and Security
• https://climateandsecurity.org/tag/department-of-defense/
• National Center for Atmospheric Research: https://ncar.ucar.edu/
• D. Nygren (Physics) proposal to develop new programs: Our Planetary Future

Global Environmental Impact: Climate

National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides funding

• pportunities to investigate Global Environmental Impact
• Recent themes relevant to Global Environmental Impact:
• Environmental health and sustainable development internationally
• Effects of pollution on health
• Effects of climate change on health
• Distribution of health-related resources after natural disaster
• Health effects of climate-related disasters
• Effects of climate change-affected pathogens and pollutants
• Sustainable solutions for mitigating pollution-related health effects
• Keep in mind, NIH funding opportunities may be:
• Focused on a specific condition, disease, or population
• Limited to specific institutes within NIH

Two Institutes Have Strong Focus on Global Environmental Impact

Fogarty International Center and its NIH partners invest in research on a variety of topics vital to global health. Topics relevant to environmental impact include:

• Climate change
• Household air pollution
• Implementation science
• Infectious diseases
• Preparedness

The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to discover how the environment affects people in

• rder to promote healthier lives.
• Global environmental health & stewardship
• Disaster health effects
• Manmade: Chemical and oil spills
• Natural: Hurricanes and tsunami
• Disaster research response
• Nanomaterials and the environment
• Endocrine disruptors
• Environmental influences on Child Health

Outcomes

• Exposure biology

RFA-ES-18-007 (R01): Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (ViCTER)

• The ViCTER program goal is to support the exchange of knowledge among individuals from a diverse set of

disciplines and accelerate the translation of scientific research into meaningful improvements in human health in those areas where environmental factors are known or suspected to influence the development or progression

• f disease.
• Each ViCTER consortium must consist of at least three key participants (the PD/PI plus two scientists

designated by the PD/PI as "co-investigators") that together represent a newly collaborative team.

• The PD/PI must propose a series of aims that are thematically related, foster collaboration among team

members and reflect transdisciplinary/translational approaches to environmental health.

• NIEHS particularly encourages applicants to propose research aims that are high risk/high reward which, if

successful, are likely to contribute significantly to one or more areas of environmental science and be the motivator of future collaborative research.

• The proposed ViCTER project must fall within the NIEHS mission. Environmental agents which are considered
• f primary interest for NIEHS include: industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides,

herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, fungal, and bacterial or biologically derived toxins.

• Upcoming deadlines: December 2, 2019; December 1, 2020, $400,000 (direct) per year for up to 3 years

Global Environmental Impact Symposium

Global Environmental Impact

• Dr. Morteza G. Khaledi

Dean, College of Science

Environmental Health

• Dr. Hyeong-Moo Shin

Human exposure and environmental contaminants, human health

• Dr. Andrew Hunt

Air pollution, Inhalation toxicology, pediatric asthma, lead in soils Climate Change

• Dr. Arne Winguth

Climate change and climate impact,

• ceanography

Predicted Flooding of Houston Flood basalt volcanism Asthma Shimadzu Center for Environmental, Forensics, and Material Science

Geohazard and Energy Resources

• Dr. Majie Fan

Continental Uplift and deformation, climate change, sedimentary geology

• Dr. Asish Basu

Volcanism, meteorites, tectonics, geochemistry

• Dr. Max Hu

Petrophysics and hydrocarbon recovery rock fracture and rock matrix, seismicity

• Dr. Merlynd Nestell

Permian biostratigraphy, mass extinction of species

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: GEI

Alternative Energy Resources

Dias Group: environmentally friendly metal mediated and processes for selective functionalization of inert C-H and C- halogenbonds, alkenes, and alkynes. Jeon Group: Development of direct, more efficient, and streamlined synthetic methods to synthesize transformative molecules Kroll Group: Development of new ceramics and glasses for sustainable processes MacDonnell Group: Novel catalyst development Foss Group: Organic catalysts for sustainable catalysis using dioxygen Khaledi Group: Green aqueous-rich media for organic synthesis

Rajeshwar Group: Development of photo- electrochemical cells for solar fuel formation Macaluso Group: Development of new stable

• xynitrides for solar light

harvesting MacDonnell Group: Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology

Sustainable Synthesis, Processes and Catalysis

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: GEI Environmental Analysis: Air and water pollution Dasgupta Group: Development of compact field use instrumentation for the detection of dangerous pollutants (cyanide, arsenic, perchlorate, and heavy metals) Khaledi Group: Green Media for Extraction and Environmental Analysis

Schug Group: Environmental Impact of fracking on groundwater (C.L.E.A.R)

• Water, air, soil quality
• Environmental microbiome
• Enhanced oil recovery and

hydraulic stimulation

• Waste water remediation
• Public outreach
• MedisposalTM

http://clear.uta.edu

Human Exposome Project: Impact of Exposure on Health

Exposures

• Exposures in a lifetime, starting at conception
• Types of exposures: environment, diet, lifestyle, etc.

Individual Characteristics

• Genetics, physiology, epigenetics

Disease

• Identification of biomarkers to determine effect of exposure,

disease progression, susceptibility factors

• Technology to determine exposures and impact, including Omics

(Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, etc.)

• Data mining and analysis

Research related to Environment, Climate, Ecology Coral Ecology and Immunology, Cell Biology, and Disease Resistance Global Change Ecology Soil Ecology and Host-Microbe Interactions Evolutionary Ecology and Genome Evolution During Climate Change

Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center

Opportunities: Changes in genomes and population distribution in response to global changes in the environment. Aquatic Ecology and Speciation Soil Ecology and Host-Microbiome Interactions Microbiome distributions, host interactions, and global change. Genome changes in rare and extinct species.

• Dr. Laura Mydlarz

Cell biology, marine diseases and coral immunity

• Dr. Woo-Suk Chang

Host-Microbe Interactions and Soil Microbiology; Microbial Biofilms

• Dr. Sen Xu

Environmental and evolutionary genomics

• Dr. Sophia Passy

Macroecology, global change ecology

• Dr. Matthew Walsh

Evolutionary ecology, phenotypic plasticity

• Dr. Jim Grover

Aquatic ecology

• Dr. Luke Frishkoff

Human-caused Environmental Impact on ecological and environmental patterns

Current Partnership between

Biology Department & Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)

Opportunity: Center for Plant Research

Microbiology Ecology & Evolution Cell & Developmental Biology Comparative Genomics

Algebra System Geometry Math Education Research Statistics Comp and Applied Math

Current Research Related to GEI: Modeling and Simulations in Epidemiology and Environmental health Ocean waves Vortex generation and Turbulence Remote imaging for agriculture Opportunities: Changes in health conditions due to global climate change Global changes in ocean flows and wind fields Data science for Smart Agriculture

Department of Mathematics

• Dr. Yue Liu

Partial Differential Equations, Ocean Waves with gravity effects

• Dr. Chaoqun Liu

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vortex, Turbulence formation

• Dr. Christopher Kribs

Epidemiology and Ecology, Modeling Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases

• Dr. Jianzhong Su

Partial Differential Equations, Inverse problems and Imaging; Smart Agriculture

Department of Mathematics College of Science

Space Physics: Upper Atmosphere Weather Modeling and Predication

Seeking information critical for communications and defense.

• Dr. Yue Deng
• Dr. Dan Welling
• Dr. Ramon Lopez

Global Environmental Impact Symposium

Global Environmental Impact

• Dr. Ali Abolmaali

Civil Engineering Department Chair

Symposium on Global Environmental Impact

March 20, 2019

§ Enhance Academic Offerings and Community Engagement through the

Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

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Develop Programs on Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)

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Establish a Center of Excellence in Water Resources, Planning and Policy

§ Develop a Program in Resource Engineering and/or Chemical Engineering §

Enhance Programs in Energy Management, Sustainability, and Efficiency

Enhance Academic Offerings and Community Engagement through the Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

CoE

Strengthen existing and develop new interdisciplinary programs including in sustainable urban design with 100 new students per program in ISGI (by Spring 2020)

CoE

Hire new faculty and build a team around existing faculty expertise to increase external funding by $1M by Fall 2020 and $5M (by Fall 2025)

CoE

Expand the Current Sustainability Institute to a University level Center for Sustainable Urban Communities (by Spring 2019)

CoE

Annual Dean of Engineering UG Innovation Day (Existing)

Enhance Academic Offerings and Community Engagement through the Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

CAPPA Existing- ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES –MINOR CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING (EMPHASIS IN GREEN CITIES & TRANSPORTATION (MCRP) PUBLIC POLICY (CONCENTRATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (MPP) EES Existing- ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES (PH.D) ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES (MS) CE Existing- CIVIL ENGINEERING (ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (PH.D) CIVIL ENGINEERING (ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (MS, ME) CE New- SUSTAINABLE SOLID WASTE ENGINEERING and MANAGEMENT (MS, ME)

CE Continue offering annual Winter School- Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) Global Impact: (75 Countries Attending UTA) CE Continue offering American Concrete Pipe Association Pipe School (500 National and International Attendees) Global Impact: (Canada, UAE) CAPPA Venice Architecture Biennale -Water Human Settlement Global Impact: (600K Attendee around the World) CE Host Undergraduate Steel Bridge Completion at UTA Global Impact: (South America) CE Secure 50 Fully Funded Ph. D. Students from Iraq, Jordan, and Ethiopia (by 2021)

Enhance Academic Offerings and Community Engagement through the Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

Develop Programs on Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)

CoE - Launch a master’s degree in EH&S (by Fall 2019) CoE - Launch an undergraduate specialization in EH&S (by Fall 2020) CoE - Develop an international certification in this area as well as certification for federal and state agencies (by Spring 2020) CE - Recruit new faculty in environmental health (by Fall 2020) CE - Developing remediation techniques research program for treatment of water contamination in a way that benefits global population (by Fall 2019)

Develop Programs on Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)

CE - Expand to Global Market: CE developed IC-FLOOD flood collection APP to improve flood prediction and water-infrastructure resiliency in urban area (by Fall 2020) CoE - Launch an undergraduate specialization in EH&S (by Fall 2020) CoE - Develop an international certification in this area as well as certification for federal and state agencies (by Spring 2020) CE - Recruit new faculty in environmental health (by Fall 2020)

Establish a Center of Excellence in Water Resources, Planning and Policy

CE - Expand Urban Water Institute with Collaboration with CAPPA to include Planning and Policy by (Fall 2019) CoE - Strengthen Research in Urban Water Resources and hire a nationally recognized faculty member, achieve $5M in external funding (by Fall 2021) CoE - Develop strong ties to Texas Water Resource Authorities and enhance research and training efforts with a goal $1M in new funding by Fall 2019 and $3M (by Fall 2021) CoE - Establish an Interdisciplinary Research Thrust in Water Quality and Environment (by Fall 2019)

Develop a Program in Resource Engineering and/or Chemical Engineering

CoE - Launch the resource engineering program to include a market analysis and a high-profile practitioner/academic hire to lead the program (by Fall 2019) CoE - Achieve 100 new students enrolled in Year 1 and increase to 500 new students including first time in college freshman & online format (by Fall 2023) CoE - Develop a $10M endowment in resource engineering (by Fall 2020)

Develop a Program in Resource Engineering and/or Chemical Engineering

CE – To assist CoE to market the Resource Engineering Program in Jordan and UAE (by Fall 2019) CE – Introduction of the resource engineering to Saudi ARAMCO to secure major endowment (by Fall 2019)

Enhance Programs in Energy Management, Sustainability, and Efficiency

CoE - Grow our research program in power management and control to achieve $2M in funding per year by 2021 and increase 25% annually after 2021 CoE - Develop new research programs in more sustainable energy technologies to include one new partnership per year (by Fall 2019) CE & CAPPA – Develop multi-disciplinary water-infrastructure research planning capability program to aid recovery from hurricane (by Fall 2019)

Enhance Programs in Energy Management, Sustainability, and Efficiency

CE/MSE – To assist Center for Advanced Construction Material to be fully functional to introduce sustainable construction materials to global market (by Fall 2019) CE & CAPPA – To establish Design-Built Center for sustainable and efficient construction (Starting Fall 2019) CHEM- CE – Initiate Collaboration between SWIS and CREST to secure $1 M annual federal funding for converting landfill gas to energy (by Fall 2020) CE – Host bi-annual international conferences for energy management and sustainability (Starting Fall 2020)

Enhance Programs in Energy Management, Sustainability, and Efficiency

CE – Expand CURIE to promote efficiency, sustainability and safety in the construction industry (by Fall 2020) CE – Develop a ME/MS track in Sustainable Utility Engineering and Surveying Management (by Fall 2019)

Global Environmental Impact Symposium

G E I S p e a k e r s Kelly Bergstrand Zhen Cong Sahadat Hossain Michelle Hummel Christopher Morris Laura Mydlarz Peace Ossom Williamson Michelle Reed Daniel Sledge Michael Zaretsky Weidong Zhou

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