The Yucatan Initiative Project (YIP): 2013 – Present 

 http://yucatan-initiative.tamu.edu/   

The Yucatan Initiative Project was established by Dr. Medina-Cetina (PI) to foster international collaborations of faculty and students between Texas A&M University (TAMU) and member institutions of the Yucatan Research Consortium (SIIDETEY) in the State of Yucatan, Mexico. The main objective of the Yucatan Initiative Project is to identify regional problems common to the State of Texas and the State of Yucatan, which can only be addressed via interdisciplinary research, teaching, service, and/or entrepreneurship, to formulate solutions that secure the social, economic, and environmental sustainability, resiliency, adaptation, and stability of the region. 

The Yucatan Initiative Project has involved more than one thousand faculty, students, and administrators from TAMU and SIIDETEY, and from academic, government and industry organizations. Multiple programs have been created to foster research, teaching, service, and entrepreneurship collaborations, producing impacts that can be measured beyond Texas and Yucatan, and beyond the USA and Mexico. 

The YIP’s research program focused on creating binational teams of researchers working on common areas of interest. Varying levels of sponsorship helped binational teams to meet, share and collect data, share research infrastructure, submit proposals, publish papers, among other research activities. Participating colleges, areas of interest, and projects, included: 

College of Geosciences (now College of Arts and Sciences), 2018-2019: 

  • Energy: 
  • Social, economic and environmental monitoring to improve decision making on regional energy developments.   
  • Renewable Energy- Systems Integration with the Electrical Grid. 
  • Technology Development for Off-Grid Remote Communities. 
  • Improvement of Bio-Digestion Efficiency to Reduce Negative Components of Bio-Gas for Power Generation.  
  • Water: 
  • Anthropogenic impacts on the regional water cycle.  
  • Geology: 
  • Effects of Chicxulub impact on earth surface biosphere and atmosphere.   
  • Transport processes of solid materials from impact site to adjacent areas.  
  • Ecosystems & Biodiversity 
  • Interconnectivity of ecosystems and the expression of that in community composition, biodiversity and ecosystem health.   

 

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2015 – 2016: 

  • Agrobiodiversity: 
  • Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture. 
  • Animal Sciences: 
  • Microbiome Identification of Cattle Fed High-Levels of Legumes: The case of Leucaena. 
  • Mechanistic Modeling to Account for Key Variables that Affect Beef Cattle Production in Yucatan. 
  • Improving the Production Efficiency of Cow/Calf System in Yucatan Peninsula. 
  • Biodiversity: 
  • Research Coordination Network:  Biodiversity, Genomics, and Niche Modeling Across Multiple Scales in Yucatan.  
  • Food Nutrition: 
  • Adding value to local crops to enhance the Yucatan agricultural & food industry and regional economic growth. 
  • Horticulture: 
  • Phytochemical characterization and sensory evaluation of a collection of different cultivars of Habanero pepper of the Yucatan Peninsula.  

 

College of Engineering, 2013 – 2014: 

  • Aquifers: 
  • Hydrogeological and Water Quality Characterization to Support the Sustainability of Groundwater Resources in Yucatan Aquifers.  
  • Biogeochemical Transformation of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Yucatan Cenotes. 
  • Early Warning Systems: 
  • Early Warning Systems for Integrated Ecosystem Management and Civil Protection – Workshop and Decision-Making Modeling. 
  • Early Warning Systems for Integrated Ecosystem Management and Civil Protection – Monitoring and Risk Dynamic Mapping (Fires). 
  • Logistics: 
  • Workshop on Developing Yucatan’s Industrial Competitiveness through Excellence in Supply Chain Capability. 
  • Developing Yucatan Industrial Competitiveness Through Excellence in Supply Chain Capability. 
  • Sustainable Energy: 
  • Sustainable Power for Low- and Medium Income Housing. 
  • Optimal Selection of Sustainable Energy Developments: A Regional Multi-Industry and Risk-Driven Approach. 
  • Coastal Dynamics: 
  • Sustainable Management of Coastal Systems. 

 

Examples of Impact: 

  • Cagle, S.E., Roelke, D.L., Hernández-Zepeda, C. et al. Cyanobacteria and nitrates in karstic systems of Yucatan (Mexico) and Texas (USA). Aquat Sci 83, 74 (2021).  
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-021-00822-7 
  • Peter S.K. Knappett, Yanmei Li, Isidro Loza, Horacio Hernandez, Manuel Avilés, David Haaf, Santanu Majumder, Yibin Huang, Brian Lynch, Viridiana Piña, Jianjun Wang, Lenny Winkel, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Saugata Datta, William Thurston, Dylan Terrell, D. Kirk Nordstrom. Rising arsenic concentrations from dewatering a geothermally influenced aquifer in central Mexico. Water Research, Volume 185 (2020). 116257, ISSN 0043-1354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116257  
  • Yanmei Li, J. Horacio Hernandez, Manuel Aviles, Peter S.K. Knappett, John R. Giardino, Raúl Miranda, María Jesús Puy, Francisco Padilla, Jorge Morales. Empirical Bayesian Kriging method to evaluate inter-annual water-table evolution in the Cuenca Alta del Río Laja aquifer, Guanajuato, México. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 582 (2020). 124517, ISSN 0022-1694. 

From the research collaborations defined in the previous section (YIP, Research), a wide network of institutions opened their projects, and laboratories, to welcome teaching experiences both in TAMU and in SIIDETEY. Designing, developing, sponsoring, and implementing a series of teaching programs, including: 

Introduction to Research Abroad Program (IRAP-Yucatan), ENGR-291 

The Introduction to Research Abroad Program (IRAP), known previously as The Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR), is hosted by Halliburton Engineering Global Programs Office. It started as a  research abroad program for first- year and ‘underrepresented engineering students’ under the “Regent Scholars” program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), to have in intensive hands-on immersion into research in Yucatan Mexico. IRAP is currently open to any student, first- and second- year, from any TAMU academic unit. In the 2024 edition of IRAP, participating units include the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Mays Business School, and the School of Education & Human Development; and in Yucatan the Universidad Marista, Universidad Politecnica de Yucatan, the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, and the Universidad Anahuac-Mayab. IRAP is currently sponsored by multiple programs in the USA and Mexico, bringing together faculty and students from multiple disciplines, working in teams in-person in Yucatan early in the summer, remotely during the summer, and in-person again in Texas late in the summer, when they present a research poster, formulating research proposals to solve regional problems (identified previously as part of the YIP’s Research). The progression of the program is: 

  • 51 TAMU Engineering-AgriLife-GeoSciences-Business students,7 Yucatan students, 3 Yucatan faculty, 2023. 
  • 31 TAMU Engineering-AgriLife-GeoSciences-Business students, 12 Yucatan students, 1 Yucatan faculty, 2022. 
  • 45 TAMU Engineering-AgriLife-GeoSciences, students, 19 Yucatan students, 3 Yucatan faculty, 2019. 
  • 66 TAMU Engineering-Geosciences students, 2018. 
  • 44 TAMU Engineering-Geosciences students, 2017. 
  • 46 TAMU Engineering students, 2016.  
  • 17 TAMU Engineering students, 2015. 

 

Examples of Impact: 

  • A series of program assessments including longitudinal analyses performed on a sample of engineering students after the program, showed outstanding results when compared to other non-IRAP/ELCIR students, including (see publications section):  
  • Higher GPA 
  • Higher retention 
  • Higher graduation rate 
  • Higher admissions to graduate programs 
  • Higher interest in entrepreneurship 
  • Higher understanding of cultural differences.  

 

Ethics in Engineering Program (EE-Yucatan), ANTH-370 

The Anthropology Department at TAMU’s College of Liberal Arts leads the ETHICS (engineering requirement) course, was hosted during a field trip abroad at Universidad Anahuac-Mayab in Yucatan (a YIP partner). 

  • 31 TAMU Engineering students, 2018. 

 

Foundations of Engineering Program, ENGR-112: 

The College of Engineering course ENGR-112, was hosted during a field trip abroad at Universidad Anahuac-Mayab in Yucatan (a YIP partner). 

  • 44 TAMU Engineering students, January 2017. 

 

Engineering and Intensive English Internship Program (INTO by CANIETI): 

This program was sponsored by The Mexican Chamber of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CANIETI), by the Mexican National Science Foundation (CONACYT), and by multiple State Governments, including Yucatan, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, Jalisco (see funding section). Its objective was to increase the number of Mexican professionals to develop research and innovation, by sponsoring student mobility to graduate programs in U.S. leading universities in disciplines such as Internet of Things, Mobile Internet, Big Data/Analytics, Automation of Knowledge Work, Cloud Computing, Advanced Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, 3D Printing, among others. The program was designed for Mexican students to do a summer intensive English and Research Program, providing them with the admission requirements to any U.S. university (e.g. GRE, TOEFL), but also a support letter by a TAMU host faculty. During a 12-week period, students spend 50% of their time in English instruction and Cultural Assimilation, and 50% working with a TAMU faculty host. The number of participating students in the CANIETI program were:  

  • 46 CANIETI students, 2016.  
  • 35 CANIETI students, 2015.  
  • 50 CANIETI students, 2014. 

 

Examples of Impact: 

  • Out of the total of 131 CANIETI students participating in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 program editions: 
  • 38 students were admitted into graduate programs out of Mexico.   
  • 25 students joined TAMU to pursue Master’s or PhD’s degrees. 
  • 24 fully funded by CONACYT 
  • 1 fully funded by Dr. Medina-Cetina 
  • The investment of CONACYT to support the CANIETI students pursuing a graduate degree at TAMU represents the largest CONACYT expenditure in TAMU (estimated at more than 5 million USD). 
  • Research productivity for TAMU faculty advisors. 

Global Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS-Yucatan): 

In collaboration with the CoE’s Halliburton Global Engineering Programs Office and the Engineering Enrichment Office, the EPICS program was designed and implemented as an interdisciplinary inquiry-based program, in which engineering students apply their engineering skills towards solving problems in rural communities in Yucatan. This program was hosted at Universidad Marista (a YIP partner). 

  • 4 TAMU Engineering students, 2016. 

 

Example of Impact: 

  • EPICS’ student Kurt Kremitzki wins the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship, 2016. 

https://www.linux.com/blog/linux-foundation-awards-14-training-and-certification-scholarships 

The Mexican Research Consortium for the Gulf of Mexico (CIGoM): 2017 – 2020 

The Mexican Research Consortium for the Gulf of Mexico (CIGOM) (https://cigom.org/en/) is the largest research project ever sponsored by the Mexican Government, reaching $60M USD for a 5-year period, with the objective of developing the environmental baseline of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico. This effort has involved more than 200 researchers from disciplines and organizations worldwide, ranging from atmospheric science, marine biology, and sediment genetics, to oceanography and radar and robotic technologists. Implementing this vision for a grand ecosystem like the Gulf of Mexico requires concentrating data through a large arrange of sensors including satellite images, buoys, oceanographic radars, and physical samples taken through a column of atmosphere, ocean, and marine sediments. And use it to simulate atmospheric, oceanographic, and concurrent ecosystems. Big data that changes in space-time (stochastic), is required to understand interactive patterns of atmospheric processes, ocean processes, and biodiversity processes, as these interact with anthropogenic processes to assess the corresponding states of risk. 

Because of his risk expertise in complex systems of stochastic processes, Dr. Medina-Cetina was invited to join CIGOM’s Scientific Advisory Board, and being Chair and President of the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT-US) at the time, helped him to establish direct collaborations between TAMU faculty across multiple Colleges, and with multiple Mexican research organizations, members of the CIGOM consortium, and industry. He secured funding from Texas A&M University (TAMU), the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT-US), and CIGOM to sponsor the following events: 

Faculty TAMU-CIGOM Workshop: 

  • 120 registrations including faculty, students and administrators 
  • 34 Departments across campus 
  • 5 areas of collaboration (breakout sessions): 
    • Observational Platforms, ROV’s and Gliders 
    • Oceanographic and Ecosystem Baseline Studies and Monitoring 
    • Ocean and Atmospheric Modeling  
    • Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons 
    • Oil Spill Scenarios 
  • 5 white papers for collaboration between TAMU and CIGOM faculty (1 per each area of collaboration).  

 

Industry TAMU-CIGOM-SUT Workshop:  

“Emerging Data and Models from the Gulf of Mexico: Mexico’s Integrated Baseline Development of Atmospheric, Oceanographic, Geological, and Ecological Processes, for Future Natural and Anthropogenic Threats,” 2018.   

https://sut-us.org/event/Emerging-Data-and-Models-from-the-Gulf-of-Mexico/636385599467864615 

Examples of Impact: 

  • Funded project by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM): “Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Observations from HF Radar across the Yucatan Strait.” (see funding section for full record) 
  • Funded project by the National Science Foundation (NSF): “An International Network-to-Network approach to generating new scientific community collaborations in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding region – A Case Study.”  (see funding section for full record) 
  • Launching of the ‘Network of Networks for the Gulf of Mexico’ organization.

Network to Network for the Gulf of Mexico (N2N-GoM): 2018 – Present 

https://n2ngom.engr.tamu.edu/  

The combined effect of Dr. Medina-Cetina’s Yucatan Initiative Project (first section), his effort to bring together CIGOM and Texas A&M (previous section), his position as Chair and President of the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT-US) at the time, and the integration of a team of international multidisciplinary experts along with his co-lead from the College of Geosciences Dr. Jack Baldauf, resulted in a unique U.S.- Mexico collaboration called ‘Network-to-Network Gulf of Mexico (N2N-GoM)”. Which Mission is ‘To establish a network-to-network of academia, policymakers, private, and civil society entities to foster the generation of transformational knowledge to address complex problems and codesign solutions, by strengthening multilateral collaborations, supporting evidence-based decision-making, and promoting a productive, resilient, and sustainable Gulf of Mexico socio-ecological system’. And which vision is ‘To become a leader in developing long-term and transdisciplinary transformative knowledge-generating systems through network-to-network cooperation.’ With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the co-sponsorship of Yucatan’s Department of Research, Innovation and Higher Education (SIIES), the Society for Underwater Technology in the U.S. (SUT-US), and the Yucatan Initiative Project (YIP).  

Inaugural N2N meeting in Merida Yucatan, Mexico, 2019: 

  • This workshop, brought together 40 representatives of GoM networks and stakeholders, and built convergence research that uses the power of networks: 
    • To identify and prioritize active Threats in the Gulf of Mexico (both of natural and anthropogenic origin),  
    • The state of Vulnerability of the systems that withstand them,  
    • And the economic, environmental and societal Consequences these can produce. 
  • Post-meeting Priorities: 
    • To advance solutions to the impact of climate forcing based on an integrated system of regional risk awareness and risk assessment for the GoM and surrounding natural and human ecosystems. 
    • To identify existing data baselines and the critical variables needed to measure climate impacts on physical, chemical, biological and social systems, including spatial and temporal gaps.  
    • To understand the physical, biological, and ecosystem changes in the context of human capacity to address climate impacts, from the community to international scale.  
    • To identify shared scientific research priorities and opportunities for leveraging resources including data, models, infrastructure, concepts, etc.  
    • To develop a framework of existing scientific rationale addressing natural and anthropogenic threats (e.g. climate forcing) aligned to its social, economic and environmental impacts.  
    • To identify research priorities and recommendations for coordination/collaborations between states and countries, and between academic, market sectors and government agencies that address societal requirements. 
    • Post-Merida Workshop Milestones: 
    • The binational N2N-GoM Planning Committee is launched (N2N-GoM PC). Dr. Medina-Cetina serves as the Chair of the organization, 2020.  
    • N2N-GoM defines its Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP): “Leveraging the Power of Networks of Network Organizations” 
    • Dr. Medina-Cetina introduced a working agenda and defined the foundational organization of N2N-GoM. Including: 
      • Biweekly meetings of the N2N-GoM PC 
      • Setting of a moderated listserv group to facilitate communications between Network Organizations represented in the N2N-GoM PC 
      • Establishment of three Working Groups:  
        • Research 
        • Data Science 
        • Governance  

First meeting of N2N-GoM members: Informational & Re-Engagement Session, 2020:   

  • 22 GoM participating networks  

N2N-GoM Kickoff Meeting, 2020:  

  • 29 GoM participating networks  
  • Establishment of Five Integrated Research Teams (IRTs): 
    • Sea Level Rise 
    • Extreme Weather Events and Community Resilience 
    • Sustainable Tourism 
    • Water, Energy and Food Security, and Economic Resilience 
    • Stewardship of Natural Resources 

Design, Development and Implementation of ‘N2N-GoM Data Lake System,’ 2020-2021: 

  • Co-Sponsored by the Yucatan Initiative Project ($15k) and Texas A&M University ($15k). 
  • Hosted in Dr. Medina-Cetina’s HPC cluster at TAMU-Data Center.  

Inaugural Meeting of the Steering Committee, 2022: 

  • Steering Committee first in-person meeting, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2022: 
    • Total Funding obtained $13,748.57: 
      • Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) – $7,000 
      • TAMU Geosciences – $2,029.93 
      • Steering Committee members in-kind contributions – $1,361.00  
      • Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory (SGL) – $3,357.64  
  • 19 Organizations: 
    • Texas A&M University (TAMU) 
    • Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada – Baja California (CICESE) 
    • Plenumsoft 
    • Tecnologico de Monterrey – Monterrey 
    • The Ocean Foundation 
    • Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) 
    • Rice University 
    • National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 
    • Advanta Global Services – Miami 
    • Yucatan Initiative Project (YIF) 
    • Center for Ecology, Fisheries, and Oceanography, Autonomous University of Campeche (UACAM) 
    • Ocean Science and Limnology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 
    • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HARTE) at TAMU – Corpus Christi 
    • Chevron 
    • Geoscience Earth & Marine Services (GEMS) 
    • Ocean Observing at Geochemical & Environmental Research Group (TAMU) 
    • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
    • Temple University 
    • Mink Global Law Firm 

N2N-GoM Quarterly meetings, 2023. 

Example of Impact: 

  • Launching of N2N-GoM as a Non-Profit Organization, 2024. 

 

TAMU X-Grant: Risk Modeling of the Arctic Grand Ecosystem: 2018 – Present 

https://arcticxgrant.engr.tamu.edu/

Thanks to the Support of TAMU’s Inaugural X-Grant Program, Dr. Julie Loisel (PI- Geography, now at University of Nevada) and Dr. Medina-Cetina (Co-PI), joined forces to lead a group of a dozen faculty across multiple TAMU Colleges and disciplines to build strategies aimed at informing policy for a sustainable development of the Arctic, by integrating a Bayesian Networks Risk conceptual model. This effort started in 2018 and has slowly but firmly evolved in the development of an Arctic Framework to map states of Risk, of spatio-temporal (stochastic) processes, depicting natural and anthropogenic threats (e.g. atmospheric, geologic, oceanographic, biological, human); the systems and processes vulnerable to these threats (e.g. sea-ground-land ice, hydrological, biological, oceanographic, soil/ground, carbon stock); and their likely social, economic and environmental consequences.  

Milestones achieved as part of this international transdisciplinary project include:  

  • Expert-based Arctic Risk Model Formulation Workshops, 2018 – 2022. 
    • Identification of 120 processes 
      • Relevant for the definition of a ‘Risk Model for the Grand Arctic Ecosystem’  
      • Relevant for driving the Arctic’s sustainability, resiliency, adaptation, and stability policies.  
  • Project goals include: 
    • To integrate available Arctic evidence (physical observations, model predictions, expert knowledge) and facilitate the use of resources. 
    • To identify needed Arctic evidence and the research resources required to populate them. 
    • To assess system uncertainties and critical thresholds to address Arctic sustainability, resiliency, adaptation, and stability. 
    • To foster a community of Arctic stakeholders to optimize the use of evidence and resources 
    • To guide policymaking for a sustainable, resilient, adaptable, and stable Arctic. 
  • External Model Validation. Conducted by external experts (former Arctic program managers of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and of the National Science Foundation (NSF). 
  • International Workshop, ‘Caribou Bayesian Risk Model Validation Workshop,” Texas A&M University X-Grant, Virtual. 2022. 

 

Example of Impact: 

Identification of research resources available to produce risk-based policymaking for securing the optimal sustainability, resiliency, adaptation, and stability of the Arctic grand ecosystem: processes, data, models, and experts. A series of papers reflecting this effort are currently in production and expected to be published during 2024. 

Risk Taskforce for the Assessment of Critical Supply Chains in North America (U.S. – Mexico – Canada): 2020-Present 

Dr. Medina-Cetina leads two multi-million projects to Assess the State of Risk of U.S. Critical Supply Chains in North America, from Mexico to Canada. He leads an international transdisciplinary team of more than one hundred collaborators, including faculty, students, staff, and administrators across TAMU, and from government, industry, academic institutions, community organizations, and contractors, from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. These projects are hosted at the Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS), a Center of Excellence of the Department of Homeland Security, sponsored by the Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (DHS-CWMD) and the Office of Health Security (DHS-HS). 

Risk Modeling (R-7): https://r7-cbts-sgl.engr.tamu.edu/ 

  • Project Milestones: 
    • Risk Assessment Modeling.  
      • To formulate a comprehensive risk assessment model, mapping qualitatively participating processes needed to simulate ‘prognosis and diagnosis scenarios’ of social, economic and environmental impacts posed by COVID19 on the U.S. trade supply chain infrastructure. 
      • To formulate 9 specific models to simulate risk scenarios of critical U.S. supply chains in North America. 
    • Risk Platform 
      • To produce a Risk Platform prototype that can serve as a communication and engagement resource to inform the public about the state of risk of any given supply chain in the U.S. 

Supply Chain Risk Taskforce for North America (R-13): https://r13-cbts-sgl.engr.tamu.edu/ 

  • Project Milestones: 
    • Trinational Taskforce.  
      • To Integrate a trinational binational task force comprised of representatives from government, industry, academic institutions, and community organizations, from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada., to provide advice about the applicability of the project’s research products, to best inform shareholder, stakeholders, and the public at large, about their decision-making regarding the state of risk of U.S. supply chains. 
    • Data-Lake System.  
      • To develop a data-lake technology integrator that can support the risk platform (milestone of R-7 project), where project participants can converge to produce real-time analytics following a Risk systems approach, which can provide strategic information about the state of risk U.S. supply chains and their likely impacts to society, the economy and the environment. 

Examples of Impact: 

  • Dr. Medina-Cetina’s team produced a series of research reports that provided the White House with the arguments needed to re-open the U.S.-Mexico border, during the COVID-19 pandemic, after almost 20 months of being closed. Dr. Medina-Cetina and his team were praised by multiple federal agencies for the quality, responsiveness, and discipline observed during the production of these reports. A decision that saved a trillion-dollar regional economy, and millions of people’s lives depending on the open flow of goods across the U.S.-Mexico border during the pandemic. 
  • Expected outcomes of these projects are still under production, including the risk assessment of 9 critical U.S. supply chains across North America, including: Transboundary water, corn, semiconductors, auto parts, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, public health information, wood, and power supply. Several research products on each of these supply chains are expected to be launched and disseminated within the following months, including a public platform to dive into the models and data used to assess their state of risk, and to simulate their corresponding risk scenarios. 

The Society for Underwater Technology in the U.S. (SUT-US), 2016-2020 

https://sut-us.org 

Examples of Impact: 

  • Lead, Scholarships Fundraising ($90,000 USD), 30 Scholarships (5 scholarships/year), 2016 – 2021. 
  • Co-PI: “Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER™) Program,” PI: Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET), Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DoE); $10,000,000 USD, SUT-US share $75,000.00, 2020-2023. 
  • Founding Co-Lead, Inaugural Committee, “Marine Renewable Energy Committee,” 2021 
  • Founding Co-Lead, Inaugural Committee, “Robotics and Automation Committee,” Houston TX, 2019. 
  • Founding Co-Lead, “Group on Environmental Forces,” Houston TX, 2018.  
  • Lead, SUT-US Structural Reforms: 
    • Executive 
    • Constitutional 
    • Technological 
  • See in the Publications section (Invited Editorial Contributions): “SUT-US: Volunteering to Advance Education in Underwater Technology.” 

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