Center for Biodiversity Outcomes

Standardizing species recovery efforts
Graduate students from the ASU School of Life Sciences’ Conservation Innovation Lab, which Professor Leah Gerber leads, published a paper today titled “Aligning actions with objectives in endangered species recovery

Decision science and data tools
Science is not enough. We need to translate knowledge into action to produce positive outcomes in biodiversity conservation. That is why one of our main goals at the ASU Center

Seeking admin and communications intern
The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is currently seeking an enthusiastic, sustainability-minded intern to support its daily administrative and communication projects. Through this opportunity, interns will enhance transferable skills such

Sefair secures half-million NSF CAREER award
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes facul affiliate Jorge Sefair, an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career

Gerber calls for action during Congressional testimony
Yesterday, ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber delivered a five-minute Congressional testimony titled “Examining Biodiversity Loss: Drivers, Impacts, and Potential Solutions” to the U.S. Senate Committee on

Impacts of tourist conservation awareness on whales
Faculty and students from the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and the Conservation Innovation Lab co-authorized a paper published yesterday in Frontiers in Marine Science, presenting their pilot study conducted

STAR Metric to prevent species loss
Newcastle University (UK) Research Associate Louise Mair, PhD, published a paper titled “A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets” in Nature Ecology & Evolution. According to the

AAAS Annual Meeting
Arizona State University partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to co-host the virtual 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting titled “Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems.” Different university units shared

Conservation can’t just be a popularity contest
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber was featured in this year’s Earth Day issue of National Geographic in a story titled “The Conservation Popularity Contest: Wildlife funding

Teaming up with program leads
In FY21, the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes introduced the program leads model to scale the reach and impact of our research and activities. This selected group of faculty affiliates

Make a difference for local plants and pollinators
Read the ASU Now story As part of the citizen scientist initiative taking place throughout April, we will be hosting a welcome webinar on Thursday, April 1, at 9:00 a.m.

Gerber quoted in Bioscience: Scientists key to decision-making in critical times
Leaders in the scientific community are calling for better ways to incorporate science into decision-making during periods of crisis and beyond. Gerber's work on structured decision-making is cited in the article.