LandscapeU Announcement

LandscapeU NRT is no longer an active NRT program but lives on at Penn State as a new graduate program: The Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society (TREES) dual-title program builds on the strong history of student training and graduate placements of the antecedent Human Dimensions of Natural Resource and the Environment (HDNRE) dual-title graduate program. After thoughtful review (both external and internal) of the original program in recent years and a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award (NRT-INFEWS: Landscape-U, Impactful partnerships among graduate students and managers for regenerative landscape design), the program was renewed as TREES in 2022. This program leverages University strengths in social, natural, and design sciences to address food, energy, water, climate, and conservation issues at landscape scales through innovation in graduate training for transdisciplinary problem-solving and professional development.

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LandscapeU is a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) to train next generation scholar-practitioners. Trainees will work on problems related to the food-energy-water nexus in the Chesapeake Bay and globally, exploring intersections of how these systems are intertwined over space and time.