From Ivory Towers to Ivory Bridges

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From Ivory Towers to Ivory Bridges
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The Library of Congress is the largest library in
the world, with nearly 128 million items on
approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The
collections include more than 29 million books
and other printed materials, 2.7 million
recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million
maps, 5 million music items and 57 million
manuscripts. The Library receives some 22,000
items each working day and adds approximately
10,000 items to the collections
daily. http//www.loc.gov/homepage/fascinate.html
The UCSD Library has over 3 million volumes on
its shelves.
What does the academic knowledge tell us? How is
it produced, organized, shared, integrated and
made useful?
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The mature human brain weighs, on average, a mere
1.4 kilos (three pounds), yet it contains a
phenomenal 100 billion nerve cells (neurons) plus
10 to 50 times that number of cells in a
supportive network of nourishing tissue and
fibers (National Research Council 1989). Your
nerves transmit messages to and from your brain
at speeds about 200 miles per hour! Your body
grows another 40 yards of hair every 24 hours.
Your body is about 70 water? And youll urinate
about 12,000 gallons of urine in your Lifetime.
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San Diego- Tijuana City-Region

The global economys throughput of matter and
energy (resources in, waste out) is staggering.
Andreae et al. (2004245) put it in these terms
Because of our tremendous resource use,
humankind, which only accounts for about 0.001
of the Earth's biomass, has become a geochemical
and geophysical force that is able to change the
composition of biosphere, atmosphere, and
hydrosphere, to affect global climate, and maybe
even to perturb the main circulation patterns of
the world's oceans.
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Identifies four interlocked, components of
sustainability science Highlights the REGION as
the most amenable geographic scale for
integrating theory and practice
Source National Research Council (1999) Our
Common Journey A Transition Toward
Sustainability.
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Sustainability Science science committed to
bridging barriers that separate traditional modes
of inquiry. The National Academies National
Academy of Sciences National Academy of
Engineering Institute of Medicine National
Research Council
The major threats and opportunities of the
sustainability transition are not only multiple,
cumulative, and interactive, but also
place-based. In other words, it is in specific
regions with distinctive social, and ecological
attributes that the critical threats to
sustainability emerge, and where a successful
transition will need to be based.
(National Research Council 1999 285)
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Environment
Economy
Minimizing use/waste of non-renewable resources
(fossil fuels, minerals, biodiversity)
Adequately remunerated work(livable
wages/benefits) with viable modes of energy
production and transportation
Sustainable use of renewable resources
(aquifers, freshwater, wetlands, soils,
biomass, human beings)
Access to affordable housing, including secure,
healthy habitat with reliable basic
services/infrastructure
Keeping within the absorptive capacity of local,
regional and global sinks (air, land and water)
SustainableDevelopment
Affordable health care, community services and
social safety net
Equity
Cyberinfrastructure and Sustainability
Informatics
Flourishing civil life in association with
others
Building cyberinfrastructure and collaboratories
for knowledge networking across academic
disciplines, local-regional-global boundaries,
and digital divides
Good governance (accountable,transparent,
participatory, respectful of human rights and
diversity)
Creating planning and decision-support
tools (on-line interactive maps, visualization,
grids, GIS, models, scenarios, sustainability
informatics)
Quality of Life and Futurity (fulfilling
the needs of the present generation without
undermining the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs)
Enabling the production, integration and sharing
of knowledge ecologies through story,
art,multimedia, culture and infocartography
Three Es of sustainable development challenges
for cyberinfrastructure and sustainability
informaticsSource Keith Pezzoli (2006)
kpezzoli_at_ucsd.edu This diagram incorporates
elements from diagrams in Satterthwaite (1997)
and Friedmann (2002)
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Schools Divisions at UCSD

• Arts and Humanities Division
• Biological Sciences Division
• Engineering, Jacobs School
• International Relations Pacific Studies
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Physical Sciences
• School of Management
• School of Medicine
• School of Pharmacy
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Social Sciences
• UCSD Extension

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Federated project data base BiosphereHydrosph
ereLithosphereAtmosphereHumans as
components of ecosystems
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RWBC hosting SANDAGs Regional Planning
Committee, May 5, 2003
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San Diego-Tijuana City-Region
New Regionalism/Institutionalism
Sustainability Science Cyberinfrastructure
Ethics and Env. Justice
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• Work together as planning educators and students
  to create, integrate and share global
  perspectives in planning education and research
• Foster an understanding of the global
  perspectives in planning education and research
  and
• Foster an understanding of the global context of
  local and regional issues an appreciation of and
  respect for cultural, economic, and political
  dimensions of planning and the recognition of
  the rich array of planning processes that can be
  fully appreciated only by learning about what is
  being done in other countries

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Research Translation Core
Aims
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Hiram Sarabia
Citizen Science Training Session
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Citizen Science Training Session
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Water Quality Sampling Methods Training
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Field Research An opportunity to put molecular
biomarkers into action
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Community Outreach Core
Aims
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National Bioassay Study
29 Palms Tribal Science Lab
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Katrina DIASPORA
The above map was based on more than 40,000
postings on Internet "safe lists" by Katrina
survivors. ePodunk analyzed messages containing
both the person's hometown and the location after
fleeing the storm. With more than 1 million
people forced to evacuate, Hurricane Katrina
caused the biggest mass migration in U.S.
history. By BRAD EDMONDSONhttp//epodunk.com/top10
/diaspora/index.html