Center for Biodiversity Outcomes

Two CBO proposals finalists for ASU Women in Philanthropy prizes
Two proposals headed by the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes leadership were announced as grant finalists for ASU Women and Philanthropy, an organization comprised of women committed to becoming advocates and philanthropic supporters of the university. The proposal presentations took place at the Musical Instrument Museum on Feb. 23.

CBO's Leah Gerber speaks at GreenBiz22
The business sector's premier annual sustainablility conference, GreenBiz 2022, returned to the Valley of the Sun in Scottsdale this February. The ASU Center of Biodiversity Ooutcome’s founding director, Leah Gerber, was invited to sit on a panel.

Could coral habitats be rebuilt on sunken warships?
Faculty and researchers from the ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, teaming with partners from the University of Hawaii, recently published a paper based on their survey of 29 sunken warships around the Bikini Atoll and Chuuk Lagoon in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

CBO at conference on decolonizing conservation research
The Conservation Solutions Lab (CSL) participated in the Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC), held from February 3-5 and hosted by the University of Georgia. The conference centered around decolonizing conservation research
Kailin Kroetz appointed to the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Kailin Kroetz, Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainability, has been appointed to the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Kailin serves as the

The Present and Future Status of Ecosystem Services for Coral Reefs
Assistant Research Professor Katie Cramer, an expert in coral reef conservation, led a team of Conservation Innovation Lab students to publish an article on coral reef ecosystem services in Elsevier,

Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List
The first global assessment of dragonflies via the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species indicated that the destruction of wetlands is a major contributing factor to the decline of dragonfly

Refining the Ecosystems Services Model: Integrating Animal Behavior into Ecotourism Management
PhD candidate Katie Surrey led a Conservation Innovation Lab student team for a recently published article on integrating animal behavior into ecosystem services. The publication was in Elsevier as part

SCB's 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2021)
The International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) hosted a virtual convening this December, including workshops and training courses. CBO Assistant Center Director Gwen Iacona led a workshop titled "Collecting and reporting the costs

Graduate student perspectives on transforming academia
As the scale and complexity of socio-environmental problems has grown, there is a renewed debate about the role that academic institutions should play in developing solutions. Further, the discussion asks

The value of information for biological evaluations of pesticides possible impacts on listed endangered species
With the help of stakeholders at Bayer Crop Science and faculty mentors, Conservation Innovation Lab grad student Erin Murphy and postdoc Steffen Eikenberry published a new article in Conservation Science
How to save more species before they're gone forever
ASU conservation scientist calls for more funding of the Endangered Species Act to combat escalating biodiversity crisis by Marshall Terrill Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a delisting of 23