Office of Science: Biological and Environmental Research Program, Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP)

Sustainable DoE Partnership to Advance Fundamental research in Earth and Environmental System Sciences at an Underrepresented Institution 
$88,445
September 1, 2022–June 30, 2025 

Hamidreza Norouzi – Construction Management/Civil Engineering Technology Department 
Akm Rahman – Mechanical Engineering Technology Department 

This project emanates from City Tech’s Center for Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences (ReSESS). The Center’s mission is to help to foster an institutional research culture change by creating, sustaining, and promoting collaborative research that coalesces around the relatively new and exciting study of the Earth and its environment via Remote Sensing. The mission is anchored in course offerings, research activities, exposure trips, seminars, internships, and conferences to engage and to stimulate the curiosity of City Tech’s faculty and students about the varied applications of Remote Sensing to the cryosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere. The goals of the project are to:  

• Create partnerships between City Tech and DOE  

• Develop plans to enhance City Tech’s capabilities for future Earth System Sciences Research 

• Leverage and gain access to DOE user facilities  

• Participate in the outreach and training initiatives of DOE’s climate, Earth, and environmental sciences programs and facilities  

• Advance fundamental research to improve the challenges posed by climate change in an ultra-urban center like New York City.