Energy and Environment
The Voinovich School, through the Appalachian Watershed Research Group, the Consortium for Energy, Economics and the Environment (CE3), the Center for Air Quality, and the Environmental Studies program, has established itself as a leader in bringing people together to solve energy and environmental problems.
Environmental projects have long been a hallmark of the Voinovich School. The school has over a decade of experience in working with faculty and staff from across Ohio University, local watershed groups, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), and with other local, state, and federal agencies on restoration of rivers and streams which have been polluted by the many abandoned coal mines in southeast Ohio.
Today, the Voinovich School continues its watershed work while also providing leadership through CE3 on issues related to energy, environmental health and economic growth.
In addition, the school is the home of Ohio University’s Environmental Studies program, which offers an innovative, interdisciplinary masters program and undergraduate certificate, and promotes environmental education throughout the curriculum.
Energy and Environment Projects
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- Local efforts focus on pollution reduction and better air quality for our region and beyond
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High on a hill, mere miles from Ohio University’s main campus, is the home of the Athens Supersite air monitoring station. This site, called a supersite because it measures a series of different air pollutants and meteorology, is run through a partnership between Ohio University’s Russ College of Engineering and Technology and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs.
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- Orange to Blue: Reclaiming Southeastern Ohio's Streams
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If you’ve ever wondered why some streams in southeast Ohio look more orange-colored than blue, you’re not alone. Such color variation distinguishes types of streams from one another and, in the case of the orange water, help to tell the story of how southeast Ohio’s coal mining heritage modified the region’s ecology.A group of researchers at the Voinovich School has been immersed in the subject since 2005, working to develop a better stream classification system for southeast Ohio’s Western Allegheny Plateau eco-region.
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- Voinovich School project blows away attendees at world’s largest wind energy conference
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On May 4, the Great Lakes WIND Network (GLWN) showcased their new interactive website, database and mapping tools developed by Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs to more than 23,000 attendants at WINDPOWER 2009, the world’s largest annual wind energy event in Chicago.According to the director of GLWN, these tools attracted endless attention at GLWN’s pavilion rendering the GLWN’s staff “virtual prisoners at the pc.”
The Voinovich School has been working with GLWN since July of 2008 to create an information database and interactive website that will help connect companies who supply or have the potential to supply parts for wind energy manufacturing, said Dave Simon, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager at the Voinovich School, who has been working on the project.
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- Abandoned Mine Land (AML) spending creates jobs, revenues
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The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs recently completed an analysis of the effects of the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) reclamation program spending on Ohio’s economy.The Ohio Department of Natural Resources called upon the School to analyze the current AML data to help determine how the program helps Ohio’s economy through the support and creation of jobs and tax revenues.
The AML project is a joint Federal and State program administered by the ODNR Division of Mineral Resources Management in an attempt to reclaim lands and waters that were adversely affected by abandoned coal mines that were in operation before a federal reclamation law was enacted in 1977.According to the ODNR, Ohio alone houses over 1300 miles of streams that were polluted by acid mine drainage, 119,000 acres of land in need for major reclamations efforts, and polluted domestic water supplies due to abandoned coal mines.
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- Expanding Environmental Literacy
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The Kanawha Environmental Education Project (KEEP), is a year-long training for Ohio University faculty that integrates concepts of environmental sustainability into curriculum improving the environmental literacy of students.
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