CESU Network

A network of 17 cooperative research units has been established to provide research, technical assistance, and education to resource and environmental managers. These Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs), serve a broad role as providers of research, technical assistance, and education to Federal land managers, environmental and research agencies, and their potential partners. Each CESU includes multiple federal agencies, universities and non-government organizations as partners. Though they are called "ecosystem studies" units they cover work from Anthropology to Zoology. Projects involve the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences and address both natural and cultural resource issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. See http://www.cesu.psu.edu/ for additional information.

Auburn University as a CESU Partner

Auburn University is a member of both the Piedmont South Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast CESU's. Alabama's diverse geography from the coastal plains at the Gulf of Mexico to the valleys and ridges of northeast corner of the State result in the need for Auburn University to be in more than one unit. For maps detailing the 17 CESU's and the partnering universities select from the choices below.