Riverside County Innovation Month Brochure

Our commitment to managing our natural resources and putting them to their best use will affect the current and future quality of life. New approaches are essential to improve air quality research and monitoring, water management, and water purification; while addressing wildfire effects, climate mitigation, and land desertification. UCR’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (CE-CERT)

CE-CERT’s mission is to be a recognized leader in environmental education, a collaborator with industry and government to improve the technical basis for regulations and policy, a creative source of new technology, and a contributor to a better understanding of the environment. Established in 1992 and now operating as the largest research center at the University of California, Riverside, CE-CERT brings together multiple disciplines throughout campus to address society’s most pressing environmental challenges in air quality,

climate change, energy, and transportation.

The Engineering Center’s current studies include: „ Pollution Formation in the Atmosphere „ Emissions & Fuels „ Exposure and Heath Effects „ R’Water is a UCR collaborative initiative to improve research, education, and water management policies in California and beyond.

Housed in the Bourns College of Engineering,

Infrastructure has been established in the County to tackle certain components of Natural Resource Management as well as Research. • Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center • Botanic Gardens • Center for Conservation Biology (CCB)

• Center for Integrative Biological Collections • Earth & Planetary Sciences Research Museum • Entomology Research Museum • Environmental Sciences • Facility for Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (FIRMS) • Herbarium • Natural Reserves • Salinity Lab • Spatial Eco-Informatics Facility • California Naturalists Program (UCR Palm Desert Center)