The U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability (USCEES), one of 30 EcoPartnerships, was established within the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue framework in May 2011 by a joint agreement between the U.S. Department of State and China's National Development and Reform Commission. The USCEES has the goal of fostering bi-national research innovation, communication, and entrepreneurship to address the interconnected challenges of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Research and education programs within the USCEES are focused on understanding current and past degradation of natural resources, investigating the drivers, impacts, and mitigation of global climate change, and assessing options for sustainable use of natural resources. Although both the U.S. and China have embraced a future based on science, technology, and innovation, our bi-national framework acknowledges that these two nations have vastly different cultural, political, and demographic legacies that could pose distinct challenges to uniform solutions or mandated collaborative networks. The peer-to-peer connections that drive the research component of the USCEES program are promoted and initiated from the ground up; they are based on the voluntary participation of scientists and engineers who are fascinated by the intellectual challenge of solving complex problems of inherent interest to them. Herein, we present highlights of USCEES activities that describe our efforts to discover, incubate, and nurture U.S.-China research collaborations to meet our collective goals. We discuss our pilot programs that are designed to highlight university facilities, resources, and technologies for tech transfer and licensing with an environmental solutions-oriented direction. Additionally, programs to promote cross-EcoPartnership collaborations are discussed.
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August 26 2015
Bi-national research and education cooperation in the U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability
Timothy R. Filley;
Timothy R. Filley
a)
1U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability, Global Sustainability Institute,
Purdue University
, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Meiling Li;
Meiling Li
2Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Jie Zhuang;
Jie Zhuang
3Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016,
China
and Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, The University of Tennessee
, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Guirui Yu;
Guirui Yu
2Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Gary Sayler;
Gary Sayler
4Department of Microbiology, Center for Environmental Biotechnology,
The University of Tennessee
, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Zhiyun Ouyang;
Zhiyun Ouyang
5State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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Xingguo Han;
Xingguo Han
6State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology,
Institute of Applied Ecology
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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Xudong Zhang;
Xudong Zhang
6State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology,
Institute of Applied Ecology
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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Guibin Jiang;
Guibin Jiang
7State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology,
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Chenghu Zhou;
Chenghu Zhou
8State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Fan Wang;
Fan Wang
1U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability, Global Sustainability Institute,
Purdue University
, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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John W. Bickham
John W. Bickham
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Battelle Memorial Institute
, Houston, Texas 77402, USA
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J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 7, 041512 (2015)
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Received:
May 13 2015
Accepted:
July 23 2015
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Timothy R. Filley, Meiling Li, Jie Zhuang, Guirui Yu, Gary Sayler, Zhiyun Ouyang, Xingguo Han, Xudong Zhang, Guibin Jiang, Chenghu Zhou, Fan Wang, John W. Bickham; Bi-national research and education cooperation in the U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability. J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1 July 2015; 7 (4): 041512. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4928742
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