The UC San Diego Sustainability Solutions Institute turns knowledge and technology into solutions.  Created by Chancellor Fox in January 2009, building on recent cross-campus initiatives and long-standing academic and research programs, SSI serves to acquire resources and organize projects to address sustainability challenges. 

Initial areas of focus are Integrated Resource Management, starting with climate impacts on water systems; the Built Environment and Sustainable Communities; and Greenovation research commercialization.

Through SSI, faculty, researchers, students, and non-academic partners are tackling the complex questions that society is facing as we strive for economic progress while sustaining the natural systems on which we depend.  We do this through collaborations across departments and partnerships that extend beyond campus, working at local, regional, and global scales. 

Under the leadership of a faculty team from Engineering, Management, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SSI brings talented project management and administrative staff to enable and support basic and translational sustainability research projects.

To read SSI's 2008-09 Annual report, click here.