Center for Biodiversity Outcomes
Project engages businesses in Peru to promote green growth, decrease deforestation
USAID-funded Amazon Business Alliance is led by the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service and the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Peru’s natural resources are under threat of overconsumption due
Estimating the cost of plastic pollution interventions
Plastic pollution in the oceans is one of the biggest issues we face as a planet.
Evaluating the role of market-based instruments in protecting marine ecosystem services in wild-caught fisheries
This week, graduate student Erin Murphy, Dr. Miranda Bernard, and Dr. Leah Gerber published an article on market-based instruments for fisheries in Ecosystem Services. This work emerged from a partnership
Beth Polidoro tapped for comment on IUCN Red List update for National Geographic
Newly released research from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) of the status of commercial tunas was compiled by a team of ASU researchers, led by associate center director of CBO Beth Polidoro, in collaboration with assistant research professor David Shiffman, post-doc Krista Kempinnen, and the IUCN SSC Tuna and Billfish Specialist Group, chaired by Bruce Collette.
Can market interventions make coral reef fisheries more sustainable?
The health of coral reefs has taken a massive hit due to overfishing, pollution and climate change, which has had a grave impact on reef ecosystems and the people who depend on these reefs for food and job security.
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans
A new paper on the transformation of Caribbean coral reefs throughout human existence was recently published by Katie Cramer, Program Lead for Coral Reef Conservation.
Giving chimpanzees space to thrive
An ASU-Conservation International study reveals that “the most important factor in protecting Liberia’s chimpanzees is simply to give them space – a radius of one to three kilometers of virgin
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
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