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Marc Miller: Working on the edge
April 18, 2008
Marc Miller, a UA law professor who has taught a number of courses on environmental issues, is now working with colleagues from around the university as co-editor of The Edge, the working title of an environmental science, law, and policy book series that will deliver timely, cutting-edge information to decision makers and the general public.
Joellen Russell: Master climate modeler
January 7, 2008
Joellen Russell, an assistant professor of geosciences plugs differing climate change scenarios into a supercomputer and draws on observational records to simulate future conditions on Earth.
Nader Chalfoun: Shaping outdoor spaces
November 30, 2007
As an architect, Nader Chalfoun is naturally interested in buildings. But it’s the spaces around and between them that intrigue him.
Don Falk: Beating wildfire to the forest
September 27, 2007
Among his many research projects, Don Falk is out to temper wildfire severity by identifying the best forest treatment plans and options, from thinning by backhoe to burning by prescribed fire to opting for the unthinkable: letting natural fire work its wonders.
Christopher Castro: Demystifying the monsoon
August 3, 2007
An assistant professor of atmospheric sciences at The University of Arizona, Christopher Castro has produced a framework for understanding the onset of the monsoon from year to year.
George Frisvold: A dynamic defense against buffelgrass
July 12, 2007
University of Arizona Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor George Frisvold is tackling buffelgrass on a large scale.
Katie Hirschboeck: taking it to extremes
February 8, 2007
Katie Hirschboeck, an associate professor with the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, is all about extremes, from the floods that redesigned landscapes centuries ago to the drought that has plagued the Southwest for more than a decade.
Getting their groove on: the alter egos of ISPE faculty
June 28, 2006
By day, J.E. "Ed" de Steiguer is a UA natural resources professor, steeped in research on public lands policy. But for at least 30 minutes every night, his alter-ego takes over when he picks up his guitar. De Steiguer is one of a number of ISPE faculty who dive into other hobbies and delve into other interests when they shed their day jobs.
Alan Weisman: exploring a world without people
May 11, 2006
From New York City subway tunnels and the Korean Demilitarized Zone to our African origins and a fertilizer research site in England, UA journalism professor Alan Weisman has journeyed to the far reaches of the globe and the frontiers of science to capture what Earth would be like if humans suddenly vanished, leaving nature to her own devices.
Edella Schlager: taking a new look at an old problem, water wars in the West
May 2, 2006
Edella Schlager, a UA associate professor of public policy and administration at the University of Arizona, has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore why some river compacts, or agreements, are bogged down in turmoil, while others flow smoothly.
Dave Breshears: on the dusty trail of drought and die-offs
March 2, 2006
Dave Breshears, a UA professor of natural resources, watched as drought and bugs wiped out nearly three football fields worth of piņon pine (Pinus edulis) in Los Alamos, NM, in less than two years. The rapid die-off highlights the importance of understanding how fast vegetation can change in ecosystems where water is limited.
Andrew Comrie: from spores to smog, UA professor and administrator lives and breaths Southwest climatology
January 31, 2006
Deciphering the elusive relationship between climate and valley fever outbreaks may be his pet project, but UA climatologist Andrew Comrie is just as easily captivated by air quality, wildfire, drought, monsoon, and other related research that examines how climate affects our environment and society.