The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center is a research center dedicated to creating synthetic, actionable science related to the structure, functioning, and sustainability of socio-environmental systems. The center is grounded in the philosophy that today's environmental problems can only be solved when natural and social scientists work with policy-makers to identify priorities and co-develop research questions. Addressing these questions will require a combination of fundamental, discovery-driven synthesis research combined with directed, translational scholarship.
Effective and leading-edge socio-environmental synthesis emerges when the insights, ideas and innovations of a diverse research community are nourished with technological and organizational support. SESYNC will provide that support, including the substantial computational and operational support required to facilitate the novel methods and increasingly large and diverse scope required of socio-environmental synthesis.
