USI Collaborative Research Network
“Urban Life Grows on Urban Soils.” This maxim is true for every city in the world — from Tokyo to São Paolo, Lagos to Shanghai and Mexico City. The diverse and dynamic properties of urban soils inform every city’s equally diverse ecologies, residents, economies and built environments.
Essential policy decisions about water, shelter, food, development, resiliency, energy, transportation and quality of life are profoundly but quietly informed by a city’s soil profiles. We only stand to gain from a deeper understanding of soil biology, soil chemistry and soil structure — the fundamental and applied aspects of soil science. Soils are complex and they command cross-disciplinary collaboration in research and education to move towards understanding.
Through the collaborative platform of USI’s CRN, we overcome regional obstacles and assemble across languages and cultures to share resources and experiences—in the field, in the lab, in the academy, in lived urban life.
The intended functions of the CRN are to:
Collaborate on research projects and pilot studies
Progress the frontiers of urban soils science by developing papers and publications
Create new ways to disseminate the science and lend useful interpretations to those who need to apply this information
Increase the opportunities and scope of experience for students and faculty through exchange programs and urban soils courses, citizen science, and other educational missions
Define and develop protocols and standards for data collection and sharing
Meet the growing membership:
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