TEI Working Groups provide a framework to encourage faculty to collaborate develop multidisciplinary approaches to complex environmental issues. Working Groups involve both natural and social scientists and encourage intellectual leadership and dialogue within specific environmental thematic areas. Working Groups also provide a mechanism for integration and communication of information on complex issues and a venue for sharing information among faculty and researchers. Participants discuss and identify environmental research needs, identify and develop collaborative opportunities, develop working papers, and disseminate information through lectures, seminars, publications, forums and conferences. Working Groups also provide direction and leadership to related activities including the Environmental Lecture Series, the Water Resources Research Center Annual Conference and other conferences hosted by the University. TEI first explored the Working Group concept through the Environmental Fellowship Program funded by the Department of Energy, which focused on three themes: climate change, contaminants, and methods of environmental modeling.

Current Working Groups:
Water and Watersheds, Contaminants, and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology

John Hill Presentation, October 15th, 2007 (PPT)