Scientists-Scholars

Could coral habitats be rebuilt on sunken warships?

Faculty and researchers from the ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, teaming with partners from the University of Hawaii, recently published a paper based on their survey of

Global Futures Laboratory’s Diane Pataki, Enrique Vivoni elected AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected two outstanding faculty from the

Flloded house with downed trees

ASU receives $6.36M grant to launch Pacific Island Research Center

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a five-year, $6.36 million research grant that will launch the Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (Pacific RISA) program as a research

ASU Engineering students working on converting trailer into a sustainability friendly and sustainable space

HUE partnership with City of Tempe for mobile cooling trailer looks forward to future

HUE and the City of Tempe unveiled a new project that will not only serve as a place of shelter from the brutal summer heat in the Valley of the Sun, but

Plastic pollution washed up on an ocean beach

Estimating the cost of plastic pollution interventions

Plastic pollution in the oceans is one of the biggest issues we face as a planet. To identify potential solutions, members of the Conservation Innovation Lab, including PhD student Erin Murphy and CBO

Taking steps to solve the problem of phosphorus

To address the complex ecological, economic and sociopolitical challenges predicated by the rapidly expanding use of mined phosphorus in agriculture, the National Science Foundation has announced the creation of a

Ground-breaking climate program for corporate boards

With climate issues demanding ever more attention from corporate boards, ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Thunderbird School of Global Management and the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School

Call for abstracts: 21st Annual IGSC Conference

The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) has an open Call for Abstracts for its 21st annual conference with the theme Reimagining Our Shared Future. IGSC welcomes abstracts from

ASU research reveals ‘weak’ replicability of place-based research

Senior Global Futures Scientist Wenwen Li is co-author on a new publication shedding light on the challenges and opportunities the scientific community faces in replicating place-based research. Across the scientific

STAAC Report release: Status of tribes and climate change

Senior Global Futures Scientist Otakuye Conroy-Ben is co-author of a new report convened by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes and Climate Change Program and written by the

New findings in the role fish play in balancing coral algae

When people think of coral reefs, images of beautiful colors and structures come to mind. But beyond aesthetic pleasure, coral reefs provide numerous benefits, ranging from food security and coastline

Sept 22: Book launch and roundtable

Join the UREx SRN via Zoom on September 22, 2021, 2pm – 3:30pm Arizona time, for a roundtable discussion and launch of Resilient Urban Futures, a new book exploring the