Uncovering the blue economy in coral reef fisheries

ASU-Conservation International Professor of Practice, Dr. Jack Kittinger, recently published a paper in PLoS ONE titled “Follow that fish: Uncovering the hidden blue economy in coral reef fisheries.” The study

ASU announces new center for global drylands stewardship

Focusing on issues like the impacts of land-use change and the ecology of desertification, ASU's Global Drylands Center – a unit of the ASU Wrigley Institute – will engage key actors of dryland stewardship in developing use-inspired research, training and solutions for arid ecosystems around the world.

Students advance collaborations in biodiversity conservation

Affiliated graduate students, Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros and Ute Brady, attended the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) to develop a set

ASU named among 2017 be Waste Wise Pioneers

"This year, we are introducing a new category of be Waste Wise Pioneers, which includes universities & media. We analyzed 900 social media accounts to find this year's Pioneers, an increase from 750

Meet Our Alumni: Joe Fullerton

Joe Fullerton graduated from the School of Sustainability with an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership in May 2017. Fullerton, already working as the Energy and Sustainability Manager at San Mateo

Advancing conservation partnerships in Colombia

In July 2017, a delegation of the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes faculty, professors of practice, postdoctoral research associates and students attended the Partnerships for Conservation workshop sponsored by the

Professor Grimm, new American Geophysical Union Fellow

Nancy Grimm, ASU School of Life Sciences professor and Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Affiliate Faculty, was recently named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. This recognition is awarded to

Faculty Affiliate Spotlight: Tod Swanson

Tod Swanson is a Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Faculty Affiliate and Professor in The School of History Philosophy and Religious Studies. He studies language of indigenous people and how language

ASU and TU Sign MOU to expand university partnership

This June, ASU signed its second Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tribhuvan University (TU) in Kathmandu, Nepal, furthering a five-year partnership. The partnership dates back to 2012, when ASU Senior

ASU Sustainability and Design Team Develop Award-Winning Project in Hawai’i

Since August 2016, an interdisciplinary team of ASU design and sustainability students and faculty have been working on a group project called “Water is Life” with local Hawai’ians to imagine

A water experiment to remember

Eight people spend a month in the Mojave desert without AC – and with only four gallons of water a day. This was the premise of Drylab, an “extreme experiential

ASU-CI: A transformational partnership

The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes (CBO) and Conservation International (CI) unveiled a video featuring CBO’s Distinguished Professor of Practice and CI’s new CEO, M. Sanjayan, describing the transformational potential