We are now accepting applications for Fall 2025 admission to Team-TERRA (NSF NRT)
For students entering the Team-TERRA program for fall 2025 (existing UConn students), applications will be reviewed starting on February 1st, 2025, with priority given to those applications that are received prior to February 1st, 2025. Rolling admission will continue until April 1st, 2025. Click Trainee Information to learn more.
Welcome to Team-TERRA - Building Resilient Landscapes for Food, Energy, Water, and Ecosystem Services in America’s Original Megalopolis. Team-TERRA is a transdisciplinary training program in the Center of Biological Risk at the University of Connecticut. The training program consists of a 2-year sequence of coursework, teamwork, a real-world internship, and associated workshops. We will use the northeastern US megalopolis stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. as a living laboratory to understand, predict, manage, and communicate risks to food, energy, water, and ecosystems in the face of global change. As part of the training program, trainees will work in diverse teams to predict and solve complex problems of the future in regions that are urbanizing and stretched to both provide the essentials for human wellbeing while maintaining the many benefits of biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
Team-TERRA Cohort 3 - 2023-2024
Team-TERRA Cohort 2 - 2022-2023
Peter Billman, Ketki Samel, Katja Kwaku, Michael LaScaleia, Erin Dierickx, Durga Joshi, Madeline Kollegger, Bivek Bhusal, Catalina Vasquez, Josué Martínez-Martínez, Makduma Zahan Badhan & Naomi Adler
Team-TERRA Cohort 1 - 2021-2022
News
Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for completing his PhD. Upon graduation Adam will be a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University under Dr. Steve Grodsky in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment researching solar energy and ecosystem service trade-offs and co-location.
Congratulations to Josue Martinez-Martinez who won the NASA CT Space Grant Fellowship for the next academic year. Josue also joined a startup called Toribio LLC, developing smart clothes to help with the prevention of strokes. In the startup, Josue is tasked with overseeing the artificial intelligence and data management part. They took 3rd place at the UConn Get Seeded event and won $1,000.
Congratulations to Durga P. Joshi for receiving the following awards; Accelerate UConn, Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), UConn ($2000), February 2023. Second Prize on Get Seeded Pitch Night by Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), UConn ($750), November 2022. SAF Student Diversity Scholar 2023, Society of American Foresters.
Congratulations to Peter Billman on the publication; Beever, E.A., Wilkening, J.L, Billman, P.D. et al. (+47 authors). 2023. Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among montane mammals: implications for conservation status and actions. Biological Conservation. 282: 109942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.10994
Congratulations to Madeline Kolleger who was awarded the Multidisciplinary Environmental Research Awards for Graduate Students (MERAGS) from the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of the Environment. UConn Today article and for her acceptance to the next cohort of AGU Science Communicators through the Voices for Science program
Congratulations to Adam Gallaher, whose proposal "Walking the walk: An analysis of the drivers, barriers, and directions of the Connecticut EV market, 2012-2021" was funded by the MERAGS program. He collaborated with Dr. Carol Atkinson-Palombo (Geography) and Dr. Lyle Scruggs (Political Science) on this project.
Collaborative Partner Organizations
We are excited to collaborate with these partner organizations:
- The premier ecosystem research institute, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. Together, we will study the risks to the urbanizing landscape of the northeastern U.S
- UConn Institute of the Environment has a mission to advance research, education, and engagement concerning the environment and sustainability at the University of Connecticut.
- UConn Center for Biological Risk seeks to improve the capacity to assess, manage, and communicate biological risks of global change through research, teaching, and community outreach. The Center focuses on risks that affect, originate from, or are mediated by biological systems.
Curriculum
Year 1 - Fall:
- EEB 5872 Environmental Risk Assessment (3 credits), Tuesdays 1:00-4:00, Bamford, TLS 171B-Dr. Mark Urban
- EEB 5882 Environmental Risk Practicum 1 (3 credits), Thursdays 2:00-4:00, Bamford, TLS 171B-Dr. Mark Urban
- EEB 5895 Section 018, Environmental Risk Communication (1 credit) - Thursdays TBD, Room TBD-Dr. Margaret Rubega
- EEB 5480 Science Communication I: Writing for Public Audiences, (3 credits) Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00-12:15, CHM T114-Dr. Margaret Rubega
Year 1 - Spring:
- EEB 5882 Environmental Risk Practicum 2 (3 credits)
- GIS course elective (3 credits)
Year 2: Workshops, Internship, Mentorship
Values Statements
Cohort 3
- We treat people with respect
- Compromising and communication are essential to working in a group
- Our projects will be practical, achievable, and provide growth
Cohort 2
- Conservation - We commit to conservation of harmony between humans & nature
- Communication - We hold communication as a necessary component of transdisciplinary work
- Curiosity - We value and promote curiosity to drive learning
- Cooperation - We believe success will come through cooperation with each other and the community
- Compassion - We strive to think and act with compassion
Cohort 1
- Open-mindedness
- Give and receive support to create an equitable, empathetic, inclusive environment
- Purpose-driven to improve the world
- Freedom to grow
- Overcome barriers
University Events
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Oct
17
Master of Science in Accounting 25th Anniversary Celebration 4:00pm
Master of Science in Accounting 25th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
04:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Alumni Center
This October, we will be hosting our first MSA 25th anniversary event to celebrate you, your loyalty to our program, and your achievements, which reflect our collective success. This event will also celebrate our program’s history and acknowledge the individuals who have contributed to making UConn’s MSA one of the top programs in the nation.
Traveling? Arrive early and make a day of it. See how the campus has changed over the last 25 years, visit the dairy bar for some delicious ice cream, and visit or revisit where you earned your MSA.
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Oct
17
UConn Women’s Soccer vs Butler - Breast Cancer Awareness 7:00pm
UConn Women’s Soccer vs Butler - Breast Cancer Awareness
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Storrs, CT, Joseph J. Morrone Stadium at Rizza Performance Center
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Oct
17
Australian Chamber Orchestra 7:30pm
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Jorgensen Center
For more information visit: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Contact Information:
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Jorgensen.tickets@uconn.edu
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Oct
18
Art Exhibit in Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health All Day
Art Exhibit in Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health
Friday, October 18th, 2024
All Day
UConn Health
Barbara Hocker presents a series of tranquil abstracts entitled “Water Poems” and Jennifer Okumura presents her abstract series entitled “Joy.” Stop by to view these exhibits in the north side of our main dining facility from Aug. 8 through Nov. 7. Join us for a reception Thursday, Aug. 22, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
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Oct
18
Employee Art Exhibit All Day
Employee Art Exhibit
Friday, October 18th, 2024
All Day
UConn Health
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Oct
18
Pink Out Day with Dining All Day
Pink Out Day with Dining
Friday, October 18th, 2024
All Day
Dining employees will show their support for breast cancer awareness and research by wearing pink ribbons and pink clothing. We invite the campus community to join in and show their support.
Pink Out Day Specials
Retail Cafes (Storrs Campus): Receive a free pink sugar cookie made by the UConn Bakery if you are wearing pink or a pink ribbon. While supplies last.
Mango: Pink Drink smoothie - Strawberries, Greek yogurt & coconut milk, 20 oz drink, 17g of protein, $7.75; Mango is giving out a pink sugar cookie or breast cancer awareness bracelet to anyone wearing pink/pink ribbon that makes a purchase - while supplies last. Mango Mike will make an appearance around noon time.
One Plate, Two Plates - Pretty In Pink Salad - available all month; This salad is a great balance of creamy and crunchy with spinach, chopped strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, diced avocado, crumbled goat cheese, strawberry poppyseed dressing, and roasted pepitas. $7.25
McMahon - McMahon will be hosting a cancer awareness lunch; each station will represent a different cancer ribbon color and that color will be represented in the entree. McMahon will bring awareness to the following cancers: Liver, Lymphoma, Leukemia, Pancreatic, Breast. At their dessert station, they will have cookies to decorate in honor of someone impacted by cancer. At the pizza wall you will also be able to post up the name of someone you want to honor.
Dining Halls - All dining halls will have pink ribbon sugar cookies made by the bakery as a dessert option at lunch on Oct. 18th.
Stay informed & get tested: cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer
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Oct
18
UConn Women’s Tennis at Brown Invitational All Day
UConn Women’s Tennis at Brown Invitational
Friday, October 18th, 2024
All Day
Providence, RI
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Oct
18
Urology Grand Rounds All Day