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 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, 9:30-10:45, Chemistry Building Room T309-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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Jul
27
Art Exhibit: Origins & Forgotten in Time All Day
Art Exhibit: Origins & Forgotten in Time
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
All Day
Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health
Exhibits featuring painter Catie Lewis and photographer Mallorie Ostrowitz
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Jul
27
Open Air 2024 Sculpture Exhibition All Day
Open Air 2024 Sculpture Exhibition
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
All Day
UConn Avery Point
The exhibiting artists are Jenny Carpenter, the CoyWolf Collective, Dan Devine, Walter Early, Johanna Jackson, Cara Lynch, R. Douglass Rice, Sebastian Shames, Margaret Roleke and Martha Willette Lewis.Plan your visit to explore these exciting sculptures and their relationship to the coastal landscape. -
Jul
27
UConn ECE Alumni Survey - HS class of 2023 All Day
UConn ECE Alumni Survey - HS class of 2023
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
All Day
1-year out alumni surveys have been emailed to the class of 2023. Surveys were sent to the email address used for registration. Please contact carissa.rutkauskas@uconn.edu if you are a UConn ECE alumni from the high school class of 2023 and did not receive an email with the survey link.
Contact Information:
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Jul
27
UConn Summer Horseback Riding All Day
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Jul
27
Urology Grand Rounds All Day
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Jul
27
Judy Saves the Day by Sarah Nolen 11:00am
Judy Saves the Day by Sarah Nolen
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
11:00 AM
Betsy Paterson Square
Admission is free, and reservations are not required. Chairs will not be provided, and audience members are encouraged to bring their own blankets and seating. Seating space will be first come, first served. In case of rain, the shows will take place in the Ballard Institute Theater at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs.
The Summertime Saturday Puppet Show Series is co-sponsored by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership and supported by a generous gift from Phillip Mairorana in memory of his wife Theresa Mairorana and donations by Ballard Institute supporters to UConn Gives.
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Jul
27
Shark Day: Beyond Jaws! 1:00pm
Shark Day: Beyond Jaws!
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Gant Science Complex
The Museum is celebrating Shark Week with our very own exploration of sharks and rays, members of the group of cartilaginous fish known as elasmobranchs.
- Learn about the world’s biggest shark, the world’s smallest shark, and some of the world’s weirdest sharks
- Touch real shark skin
- View real preserved shark and ray jaws
- Learn how sharks hunt for prey using special grasping, crushing, and tearing teeth
- Be a shark detective to uncover little known facts and win a fossil shark tooth
We aim for you to come away from the day with an appreciation of the wild diversity of sharks and rays!
Contact Information:
If you have questions or require any accommodations to participate in this event, please contact the CSMNH at 860-486- 4460 or CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu by Monday July 15, 2024.
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Jul
28
Art Exhibit: Origins & Forgotten in Time All Day
Art Exhibit: Origins & Forgotten in Time
Sunday, July 28th, 2024
All Day
Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health
Exhibits featuring painter Catie Lewis and photographer Mallorie Ostrowitz