The primary objective of Idaho EPSCoR is to stimulate research in niche areas that can become fully competitive in the disciplinary and multidisciplinary research programs of the National Science Foundation and other relevant agencies. Idaho EPSCoR provides support for sustainable increases in Research and Development capacity and advances science and engineering capabilities within the state.
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Grassland 2.0 Learning Hubs are place-based conversations supporting communication and co-learning among an array of community partners in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. We are developing an Agroecological Transformation Plan (ATP) for...
Lack of environmental monitoring poses barriers to management for food-energy-water nexus in many communities across the world. Local and traditional knowledge of stakeholders in the community can be key to framing the decision problem for...
This lightning talk discusses virtual, trandisciplinary collaborations within the context of disaster relief and resiliency. The project, evolving out of a cohort challenge initiated by Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems...
The San Antonio Region is home to a rapidly growing population with developing energy and agricultural sectors competing for water, land, and financial resources. Despite the tight interconnectedness between water, energy, and food challenges,...
Video presentation discussing the InterACTWEL program within the Umatilla Basin Oregon USA as part of the 2022 EngageINFEWS Lightning Talk series. **Resource Use**: *License*: [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) *...
Through ecological sanitation a linear system becomes circular, so that the "waste" our bodies produce is reclaimed to sustain communities. Such transformation requires both physical changes in "waste" management and sociocultural changes in how...
FEWSION for Community Resilience™ (F4R™) is a facilitated participatory process designed to improve community resilience and expand capacity for managing critical supply chains. F4R builds the capacity of communities, private organizations,...
Livestock and Local Communities (LLC) was one of the cohort challenges offered through the NSF-funded INFEWS-ER. This presentation shares the advisors' experiences for two cohorts of graduate students that addressed this challenge. The advisory...
From 2020 to 2021, a group of transdisciplinary graduate students collaborated with Caras con Causa, a Puerto Rican non-governmental organization, via the INFEWS-ER Disaster Relief and Resilience cohort. The students were tasked with helping...
Addressing wicked problems in FEW systems depends on working closely with an inclusive group of stakeholders. Yet graduate education in traditional STEM fields rarely offers training in the specific practices of stakeholder engagement. The INFEWS...