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Established in 2016 by the General Assembly, the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory facilitates university research related to environmental and economic components of managing the state’s natural resources.

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Headquartered at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Collaboratory works across the 17-campus UNC System as well as other institutions of higher learning in the state.

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Since its creation in 2016, the legislature has invested more than $15 million for the Collaboratory to carry out its mission of service to North Carolina policymakers and the citizens they serve.

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The North Carolina Collaboratory is unlike
any other research center that's been created

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by any University.
The idea with the collaboratory is to

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number one, identify issues of interest
around environmental resources: land, air

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and water, that are critical to the state
and then we have to get resources to

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that issue fast and
all that has to be done very

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very quickly because
environmental issues won't wait.

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The Collaboratory is conducting a six-year research effort to address nutrient management issues with both Jordan and Falls Lake reservoirs.

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People are just a lot more
attuned to their water resources

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and they want to know that they're
having clean water that the governments

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are looking at and protecting their
water system we're becoming a very

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populated state and we have to know the
real science the real data and what to

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do about it in order to stay healthy as
an entire state. With a collaboratory

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coming in now and showing us what's
really going on in the lake we can focus

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our energies as a collective group in a
watershed with that information.

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It's been transformative.

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[Barbara Rimer] I think one of the
most exciting parts of this

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collaboratory is the opportunity to get
real-time answers to questions that are

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really important and bringing together a
really phenomenal group of people to

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solve problems in North Carolina. We
don't just work in laboratories. We work

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in communities we work in fields and
streams and then we use that to

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communicate with the legislature. To take
their legislation and to turn it into

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quick response so that we can answer
their questions in a timely manner.

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Seems to me a model that can really be a
model not just for North Carolina but

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a model for the country.

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I think the University of
North Carolina as a system of

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universities has a passion for discovery,
a passion for impact, and a mighty

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ambition that's unlike any other
university system and I think the

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collaboratory really is a representation
of all those things.

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