Projects
Explore SNR projects to find out more about faculty, students and what's new at the school.
| Santa Rita Experimental Range | The longest continuously studied rangeland research area in the United States provides new insights into vegetation response to climate and land management. | ![]() |
| Devil's Hole Pupfish | Scott Bonar starts project on Devil's Hole pupfish. | ![]() |
| Atoms to Migration Patterns | Students in the van Riper lab uncover migration patterns in songbirds | ![]() |
| Rangelands West | Rangelands West is a website offering a wide array of tools and information on rangeland management in the Western United States. It is developed by partners from 19 land-grant universities. | ![]() |
| PANGAS | A mulitdisciplinary project for ecosystem-based management of fisheries in the Gulf of California. | ![]() |
| Carbon in the Desert | Can shrubs in desert grasslands mitigate climate change? | ![]() |
| Drought & Die-off | A well-documented pinyon pine die-off sheds light on climate-induced changes to ecosystems. | ![]() |
| Integrated History and future Of People on Earth (IHOPE) | SNR Director works with a team of international scholars to model human response to environmental change - revealing nuanced and often hopeful stories to guide our future. | ![]() |
| Declining Snowpack in the West | Researchers in SNR are using tree-rings to take the long view on snowpack trends. | ![]() |
| Trade-offs in Stormwater Recharge | In Watershed Resources, a new project looks at the potential trade-offs in recharging our groundwater with stormwater runoff. | ![]() |
| Conservation on the Edge | Populations near the edge of their range provide important insight on the impacts of climate change, especially in the montane forest islands of southeastern Arizona that harbor incredible biodiversity | ![]() |












