The institute links science and technology to policy, providing the intellectual setting for interactions between researchers, regulatory agencies, policymakers, and the public.

The Muir Institute is an applied research cooperative composed of UC Davis faculty, staff and students with deep expertise in seemingly every aspect of science and society. We foster cross-disciplinary partnerships among teams of experts who take aim at the most challenging environmental, economic, human health and welfare problems of our time.

At the Muir Institute, we support innovation and discovery aimed at solving real-world environmental problems by catalyzing research discovery across more than 300 faculty-experts from all of UC Davis’s colleges and professional schools. Muir Institute faculty are committed to strengthening the scientific foundation for environmental decision making through collective entrepreneurship, a team-oriented approach that recognizes the complexities of environmental problems and the societal context in which they occur.