New class, Biodiversity Conservation in Practice
In partnership with Conservation International, the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is excited to launch a new class in spring 2018 targeted to undergraduate and graduate students titled “Biodiversity Conservation
Deep percolation in arid piedmont watersheds and its sensitivity to ecosystem change
Doctor of Philosophy Defense Announcement for Adam Schreiner-McGraw Date: November 2, 2017 Time: 3:00 PM Location: ISTB4, Room 240 Advisor: Enrique Vivoni Committee Members: Kelin Whipple, Osvaldo Sala, Heather Throop
UREx partners with Georgia State University
The UREx SRN has added Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute (USI) to its network, bringing the total number of partnering institutions to seventeen. USI and UREx have similar missions
[Test] Future Cities Ep. 2: Innovation and Social Equity
What does social equity look like in a resilient city? In this episode, graduate students and postdocs reflect on the relationship between 'green' projects and processes of displacement and gentrification.
The effect of conservation spending
Leah Gerber, Founding Director of the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, recently co-authored a publication with Hugh Possingham, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, in News and Views titled “The
Accelerating biomass technologies to create energy and materials
By 2040, worldwide energy consumption is projected to increase 28% from 2015. Also, fossil fuels will still account for 77% of energy use, according to the International Energy Outlook Report 2017.
1,000s of lab gloves will be recycled thanks to ASU sustainability student
Recognizing that countless gloves are used in labs across ASU's campuses each week, School of Sustainability student Junkee Justin Ahn – through a program called RightCycle – is helping these gloves reach recycling centers where they are turned into plastic materials.
Climate Geoengineering: GeoE Live
In September, ASU's PlanetWorks hosted Climate Geoengineering: GeoE Live (#GeoElive), a live-streamed workshop exploring the potential promise and perils of climate invention strategies. Organized in partnership with the Forum for Climate
Advancing global corporate biodiversity
Last week, Founding Director Leah Gerber represented the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) 2017 Council Meeting in Mexico City as part
Talent and leadership for a sustainable world
On October 15, 2017, ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber represented the university as a panelist in a World Business Council on Sustainable Development hosted discussion titled
Creating smart and connected coastal communities
Aiming to benefit the lives of more than a million people, the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network is using an NSF Smart & Connected Communities grant to develop a plan that prepares three coastal cities for the increasing frequency and severity of storms.
Ecohydrological role of biological soil crusts in drylands
An interdisciplinary team of field ecologists and ecohydrology modelers led by Kristen Whitney studied the importance of biological soil crusts to soil water balance in drylands in their new paper