D2K: Data to Knowledge Institute – Natural and Human System Responses to Environmental

Change

Genomics and Bioinformatics

Sustainability, People, and Policy

Environmental Data, Analysis and

Synthesis

D2K

D2K builds on UNM’s unique strengths

• Rich cultural diversity and deep human history• Arid region, energy-rich, federal presence• International Border• Urban hubs in a rural, agrarian matrix • Strong tradition in interdisciplinary research and scholarship• High-end technological capabilities• Biological, geological, and cultural archives, artifacts and objects• Investment in data integration and synthesis

D2K: interdisciplinary and innovative research on impacts of environmental change

• Technologies and applications to study change from elements to ecosystems

• Genomic/environmental data management, integration, and synthesis to address

fundamental questions and catalyze new areas of inquiry

• Cross-disciplinary interactions across UNM, National Labs, and Industry

• Opportunities for integrative student education, research and training

• Sustainability for coupled human and natural systems, especially in arid lands

• Global health and emerging infectious diseases

D2K – Partners and ApplicationsGenomics and Bioinformatics • Anthropology, Biology, Cancer Center, Chemistry & Chemical Biol, Comp Sci, CARC, CETI, DataONE, School of

Engineering, Geography, HSC, Math & Stats, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Physics and Astronomy, UNM Libraries, Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs, NCGR

• Applications: DNA chemistry and sequencing technology, environmental DNA, gene function discovery, global health, emergent infectious diseases, bioinformatic algorithms and computation

Environmental Data, Analysis, and Synthesis• Anthropology, Architecture and Planning, BBER, Biology, CARC, DataONE, School of Engineering, Earth and

Planetary Sciences, EDAC, Economics, EPSCoR, Geography, Math & Stats, MSB, Maxwell Museum, Physics & Astronomy, Sustainability, UNM Libraries, Utton Center, Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs

• Applications: biogeochemistry, remote sensing, biofuels, environmental monitoring, isomapping, LIDAR, hydrological modeling, climate change forecasting.

Sustainability, People, and Policy• American Studies, Anthropology, BBER, Biology, Civil Engineering, Economics, Global Health, History, HSC, ISI, ISR,

Geography, LAII,RWJF, MSB, Maxwell Museum, Sustainability, Utton Center, Sandia, Los Alamos, State of New Mexico

• Applications: Interactions of natural and human systems, sustainable resource development, science to policy initiatives, international network development, global health, rural medicine

D2K Institute – Laboratories and Facilities

• Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics

• Center for Environmental Analysis & Synthesis

• Cyber-enhanced meeting and classroom spaces

Successful Models

• Harvard University

• University of California, Berkeley

• University of Kansas

• University of Florida