Related Projects

Recent + Ongoing + Upcoming

“Shades of Urban Greening – Assessing the Plant Preferences of Low-Income Communities of Tucson”

2022-present | Zuniga-Teran

School of Geography, Development & Environment, and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy; University of Arizona

The City of Tucson is investing in greening efforts to adapt to climate change - to planting trees to provide shade and mitigate heat, or implementing green infrastructure projects to capture and infiltrate runoff and mitigate flooding.

PARTNERS | Tucson Water, City of Tucson, University of Arizona, Seri

United States - Mexico Binational Arid-Region Sustainability Committee

2017-present | Scott

Chair, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; Mexican Academy of Science

This study, co-funded by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Science, and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine, is a follow-on to the 2018 binational workshop on Advancing Sustainability of U.S. – Mexico Transboundary Drylands. It focuses on identifying pathways to action and solutions that can fortify ongoing binational collaboration between stakeholders in the drylands region.

PARTNERS | Tucson Water

AQUASEC - IAI Center of Excellence for Water Security

2012-present | Scott

Co-Director, lead for eater-energy-food nexus activites

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Green Infrastructure: Improving Regional Understanding of Performance and Policy

2009-present | Boccelli

Projects that have supported research to: 1) evaluate the hydraulic performance of vegetated roods using experimental test plots; 2) simulate the potential impacts of vegetated roofs on storm water flows in combined sanitary systems; and 3) co-sponsor a Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Market Development and Policy Symposium that brought together stakeholders to discuss advances in green technology and policy and to affect change in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.

Engineering Optimization

2005-present | Lansey

Associate Editor

Food and Water Security

2018-2019 | Scott

Fellow - Leshner Public Engagement Institute, American Association for Advancement of Science

Urban Transportation System Flood Vulnerability Assessment with Special Reference to Low Income and Minority Neighborhoods

2018 | Crosson

Small Starts Grant | National Institute of Transportation and Communities (NITC) | Principal Investigator ($20,000)

Multi-use Basin Study for Christmas Wash, Alamo Wash, and Ruthruff Basin

2018 | Crosson

Pima County Regional Flood Control District and City of Tucson | Principal Investigator ($10,000)

Water Center @ UC

2014-2018 | Boccelli

Founder and director of the Water Center at the University of Cincinnati to develop interdisciplinary research, education and outreach activities across the University and with our regional partners. Successfully competed for funds from the Office of the Provost ($1.6M) to hire six new water related faculty; four completed at time of separation from UC.