Recently hired, Pearce Paul Creasman the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research collections curator, prepares for the challenge of organizing more than 100 years worth of tree-ring collections.
Our Mission
The Institute of the Environment collaborates across The University of Arizona campus to understand, communicate, and solve the environmental challenges facing our world, nation, and state, as well as to help the people of Arizona seize opportunities created by these challenges.
Events
Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Talk
Biosphere 2 Visitor Center Theater
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Talk
Chavez Building Room 110
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Conference
Decision Center for a Desert CityBrickyward Orchid House21 E. 6th St. Suite 126B, Room 175Tempe, AZ 85281
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Talk
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building, Room S202, [map]
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Talk
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Bldg, Room S202
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 8:00pm
Special Event
UA Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street
Saturday, December 5, 2009 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Talk
Biosphere 2 Visitor Center Theater
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News
November 18, 2009
Malcolm Hughes, a professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona's Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, offers his insight on the recent increase of ancient bristlecone pine trees found in certain parts of California and Nevada.
November 17, 2009
Famed UA astronomer Roger Angel is setting his sight on low-cost methods of generating solar energy.
November 2, 2009
Sharon Megdal, director of the UA's Water Resources Research Center, says the cost of treating and delivering water to Arizona communities is likely to increase in the coming years.
October 30, 2009
Scary-looking giant water bugs are models of fatherhood and important in our world. Christine Goforth, a doctoral student in the department of entomology, will present a talk titled "Monsters of the Deep: The Life and Times of Giant Water Bugs" at Biosphere 2 at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Spotlight
November 13, 2009
Institute of the Environment
Julie Cole has received a $400,603 National Science Foundation grant to study patterns of Holocene drought using new cave records from the southwestern U.S. Cole and her research team are sampling stalagmites and analyzing cave drip water to develop a clear picture of whether past megadroughts are a regular feature of climate in the region, and to link these droughts to potential causes.
October 23, 2009
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A team of University of Arizona researchers has received a $299,891 National Science Foundation/US Department of Agriculture–Forest Service grant to study mosquito disease vectors in Arizona cities. Uniting entomology, land cover analysis, climate/insect modeling, and institutional ethnography, the project will examine the relationship between institutions and insects in the growing greater-Arizona cities stretching from Phoenix and Casa Grande to Marana, Tucson, and Green Valley—an area encompassing 5.3 million people.
October 23, 2009
Institute of the Environment
In the second installment of her online “Art and the Environment” column, Barbara Morehouse, deputy director for research at the Institute of the Environment, draws upon two recent poetry readings to explore what we mean by "poetry" and how it might connect to science.