The UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE) was created in 1997 in recognition of the need for the university to find solutions to manage the planet’s biosphere so that it can support the rapidly growing human population and maintain an increasingly high quality of life for each and every person. For this reason, JMIE was designed to unite scholars across all units on campus and to provide effective mechanisms for bringing together multidisciplinary and multi-institutional teams of researchers and stakeholders, because creative and bold solutions to immense environmental problems can be achieved only with seamless collaborations, unimpeded by the artificial structures of research fields and institutional bureaucracies. A large and significant part of this multidisciplinary focus is the full recognition that solutions to environmental problems cannot be simple technological quick fixes but rather they must take on the daunting task of changing human behavior and values.

The institute is currently comprised of seven centers and one research initiative, the Environmental Justice Project. Through these activity hubs, the institute currently provides grant administration support for more than 125 principal investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs. These grant-related activities span the campus and encompass a broad range of disciplinary breadth. During the most recent three year period, the institute has grant-supported more than 200 graduate students and 40 postdoctoral researchers.

Centers and initiatives:

Environmental Justice Project

Center for Watershed Sciences

Tahoe Environmental Research Center

UC Davis Natural Reserve System

Public Service Research Program

Center for Health and the Environment

Center for Affordable Technology for Small Water Systems

Road Ecology Center

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