Southwest Climate Assessment Report Review

The Southwest Climate Alliance [SWCA] welcomes your comments on a DRAFT version of the "Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Technical Report Prepared for the U.S.

Mission critical: Species explorers propose steps to map biosphere

Scientists say worldwide collections, existing experts and technology make charting 10 million species in less than 50 years achievable; a necessary step to sustain planet’s biodiversity TEMPE, Ariz. – An

NSF leads federal efforts In big data

At a White House event, the NSF Director announced a new Big Data solicitation, $10 million Expeditions in Computing award, and awards in cyberinfrastructure, geosciences, training. Researchers in a growing

DCDC Google Scholar page

We've created a Google Scholar page for Decision Center for a Desert City publications. Google Scholar provides a review of Decision Center for a Desert City literature across many disciplines

ASU to use $27.5M Walton investment to accelerate sustainability efforts

Investment to ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability will educate future leaders The Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation is providing $27.5 million to Arizona State University’s

Sustainability waits: Doomsday clock ticks forward

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Lawrence M. Krauss Shortly after the end of World War II, Albert Einstein uttered his now famous warning about the new global danger of

CAP collaborates with Dance Initiative

CAP LTER’s Ecology Explorers program has begun a collaboration with Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts on an exciting new youth project that blurs the boundary

Sabo to direct research development for GIOS

John Sabo, an expert in ecohydrology and water resource management, has been named director of research development for the Global Institute of Sustainability, a transdisciplinary unit in the Office of Knowledge Enterprise

Help us identify nesting site locations for birds of prey

The Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Project (CAP LTER) is conducting a nest site study of the various birds of prey (raptors) that choose to nest in and

ASU researchers, Nobel laureate have stake in ‘Planet under Pressure’ forum

The future of the oceans, poverty alleviation, global trade, biodiversity and food security are among research areas that will be at the core of the “Planet under Pressure” (PUP) conference

Spatial optimization nodels for water supply allocation

Authors: Alan T. Murray (1), Patricia Gober (2, 3), Luc Anselin (1), Sergio J. Rey (1), David Sampson (3), Paul D. Padegimas (1), Yin Liu (1)in Water Resource Management, DOI

Observatories for integrated water basin science

An Eos FORUM article by L. Douglas James, via Eos, Vol. 93, No. 10, 6 March 2012. For more than 30 years, with the last 20 years at the U.S.