Community Engagement News

Dedicated to training the next generation of environmental researchers and artists in the practice of public communication, the Carson Scholars Program provides a one-year fellowship to select graduate students at the University of Arizona.

It’s no secret that as students and faculty return to campus, health and safety regarding COVID-19 is a top priority across every department! Here at the Arizona Institute for Resilience, it is important to find a balance between safety, sanitization, and staying environmentally friendly.

Electric utilities across the U.S. are setting goals for GHG emissions reduction as part of international agreements, such as the Paris Climate Agreement, and in recognition of the need to address carbon emissions in the energy sector.

The Indigenous Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (Co-InFEWS) workshop took place over the week of June 15, 2020, on Zoom, a virtual meeting platform.

The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC) recently held a series of virtual workshops on the topic of Ecosystem Resilience, focused on heat stress on biota and what happens after large-scale mortality and climate-related disturbance events.

University of Arizona Regents Professor Diana Liverman has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), two of the highest honors a scientist can receive.

In 2018 the University of Arizona joined the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), comprising 20 leading North American research universities. The goal: helping communities accelerate climate action.

Within the past decade, alarming footage of Western forest fires has become part of the daily news for a good part of the year. California’s 2017 Thomas Fire was the costliest on record. The Camp Fire, which burned 153,336 acres in Northern California in fall 2018, was the deadliest in the state’s history.

Mining has long been a key part of Arizona’s economy, from the boomtowns that sprouted up in the 1800s to today’s streamlined industries that operate across the state, but it has often come at a cost to the environment and public health.

The Sonoran Desert’s typically high-alkaline soil, minimal rainfall and extreme temperatures (which can dip below freezing in winter and routinely reach 110 degrees in summer) make it a challenging agricultural environment.