Purdue, Chinese researchers to partner

Purdue University’s Center for the Environment in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are forming a five-year partnership focused on researching the environmental challenges posed by population growth and urbanization in the two countries. The global partnership will create programs that offer opportunities for student, scholar and faculty exchange, said John Bickham, director of Discovery Park’s Center for the Environment. Research areas will include biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen (pathways by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abioticcompartments of earth), soil biology and biochemistry, fate and transport of contaminants, and water processes and modeling. (September 10, 2010)