Conservation Innovation Lab

An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion

Led by PhD student Camila Guerrero-Pineda, Conservation Innovation Lab members published an article in Nature Sustainability applying a return-on-investment framework to conservation decision-making. Focusing in Colombia, the study presents a

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

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

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

Whale watching

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