ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY

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ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY

• Program Leader
• John Sanseverino
• Research Assistant Professor
• Department of Microbiology and
• The Center for Environmental Biotechnology

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What is Environmental Security?(from The
Millennium Project Report)

• The relative safety from environmental dangers
  caused by natural or human processes due to
  ignorance, accident, mismanagement or design and
  originating within or across national borders.
• The state of human-environmental dynamics that
  includes restoration of the environment damaged
  by military actions, and amelioration of resource
  scarcities, environmental degradation, and
  biological threats that could lead to social
  disorder and conflict.

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The condition of environmental security is one
in which social systems interact with ecological
systems in sustainable ways, all individuals have
fair and reasonable access to environmental
goods, and mechanisms exist to address
environmental crises and conflicts.
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Environmental Security vs Environmental
Sustainability

• Sustainability
• Focuses on sound socio-economic development

• Security
• Preventing conflict related to environmental
  factors
• Amelioration of environmental scarcities and
  hazards
• Repair of environmental damage.

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Research Agenda

• Surveillance technologies for early detection of
  environmental threats
• Real-time sensors for pollutant monitoring
• Biological pathogen detection
• Sensor networks for environmental monitoring
• Air Monitoring
• Alternative energy
• Policy Issues

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Surveillance Technologies I

• Center for Environmental Biotechnology
• Contaminant monitoring
• Pathogen detection
• Microbial source tracking

• Mike Sepaniak - Chemistry
• Microfluidic devices for rapid separation and
  identification of organic compounds
• Functionalized microcantilevers

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Surveillance Technologies II

• Bob Compton - Chemistry
• High resolution infrared spectroscopy for
  measuring atmospheric contaminants
• Barry Bruce BCMB
• Photosynthetic Hydrogen Production

• Syed Islam, Ben Blalock, Mostafa Howlader - ECE
• Sensor design
• Sensor networks and communications

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Policy Issues

• Regional Problems
• National and international
• Air pollution
• Water use and distribution
• Energy resources

• Area of Opportunity for Research and
  Collaboration
• International strategies to address global
  environmental problems
• Water scarcity
• Global Warming
• Energy
• Land Use

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Water Resources
Monitoring Remediation Public Outreach
Water Usage
Environmental Security
Energy Policy
Environmental Education
Alternative Energy Development and Public
Acceptance
Amelioration of Global Warming
Environmental Sustainability
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Potential Funding Sources

• Department of Homeland Security
• Bio-Chem Detection
• National Science Foundation
• Sensor and Sensor Networks
• National Ecological Observatory Networks
• Department of Energy
• Contaminant monitoring
• Alternative energy
• Environmental Protection Agency