Center for Biodiversity Outcomes
CBO and Partners Initiate Development of Biodiversity Risk Assessment tool
CBO and a team of partners assembled this summer at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara to discuss biodiversity and water conservation in business.
CBO’s Helen Rowe assumes new role as Director of the McDowell Sonoran Field Institute
CBO is please to congratulate Helen Rowe on her new position as Director for the McDowell Sonoran Field Institute (MSFI). MSFI is the research center of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy
The Earth Genome releases 2015 progress report
CBO Partner, The Earth Genome, recently released an exciting year one progress report. Earlier this year, the Earth Genome partnered with CBO and a team of ASU researchers to develop a series of
CBO embarks on educational partnership in Hawaii
The Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is supporting exploration of a partnership with the Whale Trust, and Lahainaluna High School (LHS), in Lahaina, HI Recently CBO director, Leah Gerber and PhD
Taking stock of nature
CBO Director Leah Gerber, proposes a compromise on a total whaling ban: A market in which whales can by bought and sold. Taking Stock of Nature
Taxonbytes Blog
Visit Taxonbytes: From Specimens to Language, Logic and Learning A blog by CBO Faculty Affiliate, Nico Franz, Associate Professor and Curator of Insects
Leah Gerber on Biodiversity and Sustainability
In this interview, CBO Director, Leah Gerber discusses the important questions at the intersection of conservation science and policy. Interview transcript
ASU research on microplastics featured in EHP report
CBO affiliated researcher Rolf Halden, director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Security, contributed to this EHP focus piece: New Link in the Food Chain? Marine Plastic Pollution and Seafood
CBO Director Joins Fisheries and Ecosystems Task Force
CBO Director, Leah Gerber has joined the Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management task force. Task force scientists will work together in a series of meetings to create a practical blueprint that fisheries managers can use
Explore Careers in Wildlife Management at AZGF
Space is still available; pre-registration is required at www.azgfd.gov/careerday Do you know someone who is interested in a career in wildlife conservation and management? If so, encourage them to attend the Arizona Game and Fish
Andrew Smith's Pika research featured in Scientific American
"Here’s why mass-poisoning pikas is a terrible idea (and not just because look at their fat little faces)" Science writer Bec Crew blogs in Scientific American about the impacts of
CAP LTER-Conservation Alliance receives grant
The CAP-LTER-Conservation Alliance Community Wildflower Survey has been selected for funding from the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance research grants program. The project, lead by CBO advisory board member, Sharon Hall