Issues they’ll tackle include water shortages and rising temperatures, Telesetsky said. The research will be completed by the summer of 2022.

California 100 Executive Director Karthick Ramakrishnan said he was excited to have Cal Poly as a partner, as its “contributions will be invaluable to [California 100’s] research stream and to charting a vision and strategy for [the] state’s long-term success by the end of [the] initiative.”

Cal Poly is one of the 18 institutions collaborating with California 100, which includes schools in the University of California system and Stanford University. Cal Poly is the only university in the California State University system selected to join the initiative.