climate change

On August 30th, the School of Natural Resources and the Environment welcomed all graduate students to attend the SNRE Back-to-School Reception with faculty.

Each Professor prepared a slide to introduce themselves and discuss their research. For those that were not able to attend, the slides can be found here: New Student Orientation - About Our Faculty.

Report Abstract:

The National Park Service Intermountain Region (IMR) partnered with the University of Arizona, to assess climate change training needs for over 5,000 IMR employees. We evaluated baseline climate literacy and employee training preferences, and outlined plans for climate change training. We identified the following baseline climate knowledge characteristics: a lack of discernment between climate variability and trends, good understanding of key phenomena, such as El Niño, good identification of observed impacts, but little knowledge of climate projections for the IMR.

The USA National Phenology Network brings together citizen scientists, government agencies, non-profit groups, educators and students of all ages to monitor the impacts of climate change on plants and animals in the United States. The network harnesses the power of people and the Internet to collect and share information, providing researchers with far more data than they could collect alone.

UA Awarded $2.95M to Study Monsoon Ecology:  Read the full article from UA News

"Funding for the grant, called Processes and Patterns in the North American Monsoon Macrosystem, is for five years and comes with $2.95 million to the UA, $402,000 to New Mexico State University and $281,000 to Utah State University.

University of Arizona scientists and extension personnel will be featured speakers in a 2-day workshop on climate and forests. Lead conference organizer Chris Jones, UA Gila County cooperative extension agent, and colleagues from the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment and the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences worked with colleagues from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other universities and agencies to bring together natural resource extension agents, forest ecosystem scientists, and others from around the U.S.

Seafha Blount and Melissa Merrick, PhD students in John L. Koprowski's research group, have received 2011 UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowships.  The UA/NASA Space Grant Program and nominating departments provide six graduate fellowships per year to exceptional graduate students /interested in promoting the understanding of space-related research to the public and who are studying in space sciences/engineering, public policy, earth sciences, science education, and global change-related fields.

Event Title: National Workshop on Climate & Forests

Date/Time: May 16, 2011, 8:00am - May 18, 2011, 5:00pm

Location: Northern Arizona University's DuBois Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona

Event Title: National Workshop on Climate & Forests

Date/Time: May 16, 2011, 8:00am - May 18, 2011, 5:00pm

Location: Northern Arizona University's DuBois Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona

Sustaining Forests, Woodlands, and Communities Through Biomass Use
October 18 - 19, 2011
Utah State University
Logan, Utah