Introductions 5 min'

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ESI Flagship Meeting Agenda Friday, Jan 5,
2007,  1130am-130pm

• Introductions/ 5 min.
• Lisa Shaffer Flagship expectations/ 5 min.
• Keith Pezzoli Flagship criteria for success,
  strategic plan for near and long term, leveraging
  the existing Regional Workbench Consortium
  platform/ 25 min.
• Hiram Sarabia Flagship specific project focus/15
  min.
• David Cleveland (TELESIS) Comment on the
  proposed study region and IT systems involving
  university-community partnerships/ 5 min.
• Gabriele Wienhausen ESI education initiative and
  potential links to Flagship effort/ 5 min.
• Reagan Moore (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
  Technical trends including IRODS and Grid
  technology relevant to Flagship/ 5 min.
• Cindy Santini (Digital Mud, RWBC web master)
  Comments on groupware for collaborative research,
  education outreach/ 5 min.
• Bill Hodgkiss, David Schkade, Dan Cayan
  (comments/suggestions by those on the Flagship
  steering committee).
• Open discussion/ Next steps

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Operational criteria for success

• The project already has committed
  faculty/institutional support/ funds-resources/for
  ward motion.
• The project emphasizes multidisciplinary
  place-based research in a scalable context (i.e.,
  a conceptual and methodological space that takes
  into account the interplay of local, regional and
  global dynamics).
• The project places a premium on enabling
  science-science integration and science-society
  linkages through knowledge-action
  collaboratives (i.e., civically-engaged science
  of the sort promoted by the National Research
  Council).
• The project has broad appeal among diverse groups
  on and off campus (i.e., it will attract top
  notch researchers, community-based partners,
  stakeholders in government and industry, and
  donors).
• The project includes a service learning component
  (i.e., research internships, field/lab research
  opportunities for undergraduate and graduate
  students that compliment UCSD's pedagogy
  mission).
• The project can be characterized as a "grand
  challenge" with a philosophy of promoting
  discovery and innovation.
• The project has a sustainability (sustainable
  development) informatics component and is geared
  to making change happen (actually improving
  quality of life and place).

ESI FLAGSHIP Developing a focus and long term
strategy
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The San Diego-Tijuana City-Region
image source http//www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/califor
nia.htmlPIA03330
The border regiona 2000-mile-long, 125-mile-wide
strip extending from the Pacific Ocean to the
Gulf of Mexicowas scarcely inhabited at the
beginning of this century. The total population
which now exceeds 11.8 million6.3mUS, 5.5mMexico
(up from only 1 million in 1960) is expected to
grow to 19.4 million by 2020. The SD-TJ
city-region is the most populated of the borders
14 cross-border metropolitan areas.
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FLAGSHIP DOCS LINKS

• 1. Handout distributed at Jan. 5, 2006 meeting
  outlining initial project focus "Using new
  biomolecular technologies to improve
  environmental monitoring," click here for pdf.
• 2. Two background docs for the Dec. 7, 2006 ESI
  Flagship project development meeting, click here
  for pdf
• 3. Documents with details about the prospective
  study region
• David Cleveland, TELESIS, Community Mapping and
  Analysis, click here for pdf
• David Cleveland, Community Fact Sheets re study
  region, click here for pdf.
• TELESIS Neighborhood Studies Project (done in
  partnership with UCSD students), click here
• TELESIS San Diego Making Connections project,
  click here
• Weston Solutions, Inc Chollas Creek TMDL and
  Source Loading, Best Management Practices, and
  Monitoring Strategy Assessment, Final Report
  (Prepared for City of San Diego), September
  2006, click here
• 4. Review of a popular academic text Sustainable
  Urban Development Reader, which mentions ESI and
  the Regional Workbench, click here for pdf.
• Posted on the RWBC web site http//regionalworkbe
  nch.org/education/flagship.php

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ESI Flagship RENEW-SD Creating a Regional
Ecology Network and Environmental Workbench for
Sustainable Development

• Study area San Diego Bay and the Pueblo
  Watershed with a focus on Chollas Creek (in a
  Regional and Global context).
• Problem Non-Point Source Pollution Toxic
  Hotspots.
• Challenge Applying New Biology and other
  sciences to improve environmental monitoring,
  risk assessment and remediation.
• IT Support Build on the Regional Workbench
  Consortium (RWBC) to create a platform for
  knowledge networking and collaboration through
  civically-engaged research, education and
  outreach.

PHASE 1 Jan-August 2007
Aim Gain a foothold/trust in the study
community,bring real science to bear on a
specific problem, and createa conceptual
cyber-space for multidisciplinary collaboration.
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• Once RENEW-SD is established we will be in a
  position to define additional action plans and
  implementation strategies. The list below
  (created by TELESIS) emphasizes the kind of
  practical functionality that RENEW-SD can provide
  through university-community collaboration.
• Help identify risks posed by environmental
  pollution by pinpointing areas of greatest
  concern and placing response strategies in a
  meaningful context for community action (i.e.
  passage of new or revised ordinances).
• Provide a practical method for consolidating and
  measuring the dynamic health-social-demographic-ec
  onomic risk factors that underlie community
  sustainability (i.e., help answer the question
  why does this sustainability problem exist in
  this community and not in others at the same
  level).
• Identify specific environmental hot spots such as
  homeless encampments, hazardous waste products
  from methamphetamine labs, and unlicensed auto
  repair shops.
• Identify abandoned buildings used as nighttime
  waste dumps and other illegal activity.
• Identify the number of limited or non-functioning
  sewer openings within a given neighborhood, and
  identify and measure the level of  pollutants
  found within the sewer system at the street
  level.
• Measuring and mapping air, water, and land
  pollution, hazardous waste, non-functioning
  community infrastructure at such as a fine
  granular level will identify existing and looming
  sustainability problems and provide supporting
  data for problem solving at the neighborhood
  level.  Repeating this methodology over time will
  demonstrate the level of actual change toward
  sustainability.

• Build upon the community-based collaborative
  problem-solving strategies, data collection and
  scientific investigation techniques used by
  TELESIS in 2001, during their Making Community
  Connections Project.
• Extend the reach of RENEW-SD to include
  additional watersheds throughout the San Diego
  metropolitan area and across the US-Mexico Border
  region.
• Link RENEW-SD into the Global Planning Grid and
  Sustainability Initiative led by the Global
  Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG).

PHASE II Sept. 2007- Aug. 2008
Lisas Question How will this region of San
Diego be different as a result of the Flagship
project? What are some measurable outcomes not
just in terms of knowledge but in terms of action
or implementation or something non-academic.
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• RWBC Mission
• Create innovative research-learning partnerships,
  planning support systems, and educational tools
  to enable sustainable city-region development.
• More than a Web site!
• Multidisciplinary conceptual framework for
  sustainability science
• Federated network for information integration
  and knowledge sharing, through collaborative
  projects
• Service learning and workforce development
  opportunities for students (internships)
• Ethics, research methods and the philosophy
  of science (guides)

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Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC)
1. Urban Studies and Planning 2. Environment and
Sustainability Initiative/ SIO 3. Superfund Basic
Research Program 4. California Cultures in
Comparative Perspectives 5. San Diego
Supercomputer Center 6. Sixth College
Mentors
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Select RWBC website resources

• UCSD-TV documentary about the RWBC (28
  minutes,click here for link to UCSD TV archive).
• RWBC five year anniversary report (2000-2005),
  click here for pdf
• RWBC projects database, click here.
• RWBC Education Center, click here
• RWBC Student research and networking resources,
  click here
• RWBC Interactive narratives and video
  documentaries, click here
• RWBC Interactive mapping resources, including the
  NIEHS Portal click here
• Sample list of funding sources, click here
• Posted on the RWBC web site http//regionalworkbe
  nch.org/education/flagship.php

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• Potential Funding Sources
• EPA/ NIEHS (proposal to create a national/global
  bioassay network), Collaboration with SBRPs
  nationally. Fits well with NIEHS strategic plan.
• NIEHS SBRP (leverage existing grant,
  2005-2010)Collaboration with University of
  Arizona on US-Mexico Partnerships in
  Environmental Health Sciences. March 12-14, 2007
  conference.http//superfund.pharmacy.arizona.edu/
  news/Global_env_workshop.htm
• HUD, International Division/ ACSP (Smithsonian
  Institute, Lincoln Land Institute). Global
  Planning Grids International Conference on
  Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management
  (CUPUM), Iguassu Falls, Brazil. www.cupum.org.

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Action Plan for the ESI Flagship Problem NPS
Toxic HotspotsChallenge Applying New Biology
and other sciences to improve environmental
monitoring, risk assessment and
remediationStudy area San Diego Bay and the
Pueblo Watershed with a focus on Chollas Creek
(in a Regional and Global context)
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Pueblo Watershed

• Pueblo Watershed drains into San Diego Bay
• Chollas Creek CWA 303(d) impaired water body
• Mouth of Chollas Creek is Toxic Hot Spot
• Historical discharges and NPS
• Organic contaminants in sediments
• (i.e., PAHs/PCBs/Chlordane and DDT)
  identified as sources of ecological and potential
  human health risk
• First comprehensive TMDL in region (EPA, SWRCB,
  RWQCB, SCCWRP, SDSU, UC, Navy, Cities, NGOs)
• Opportunity to engage government, industry,
  research and community stakeholders to build
  partnerships

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Needs-Based and Collaborative Approach

• Conduct a NPS pollution meeting/workshop that
  will serve as needs assessment / collaboration
  builder with participation of research and
  monitoring community (Linking Science to
  Science)
• Design project with stakeholder input
• (Maximize Impact)
• Conduct a community meeting/workshop to inform
  residents of project, receive feedback on science
  communication and establish relationship/collabora
  tions
• (Linking Science to Society)
• Implement project
• Report findings to stakeholders
• (Inform Decision Making / Future Research)

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Project

• Organic contaminants in sediments
• (i.e., PAHs/PCBs/Chlordane and DDT)
  identified as sources of ecological and potential
  human health risk
• Present TMDL efforts do not address organic
  pollutants directly
• Research on organic pollutants in sediments will
  help to identify sources, design more effective
  remediation measures and abate pollution at
  toxic
• hot spot
• Some questions of relevance
• What are the contributions of PAHs/PCBs from each
  of 30 sub-watersheds in the Chollas Creek?
• What are the relative contributions of PAHs/PCBs
  from storm water and creek bed sediments?
• Convair Lagoon PCBs
• Others ???

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Project

• P450RGS (EPA 4425)
• Reliable, fast, sensitive and much cheaper !!!
• Greater replication
• and better characterization
• Organic extraction of samples limiting step
• Form a TAC (implement QA/QC protocols)
• National Bioassay Network