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.
Faculty Spotlight
October 20, 2009
CLIMAS
With a disappointing monsoon season, drought conditions have spread to every corner of Arizona, causing poor ranchland conditions and forcing many ranchers to sell livestock. While El Niño is partly to blame for the lack of summer rains, it may also bring wetter-than-average conditions to parts of the Southwest, particularly the southern portions.
October 13, 2009
Financial Times
Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science and outreach at the Institute of the Environment, discusses bark beetle infestation in the Southwest in a sidebar to the Financial Times' article, Record drought takes its toll on Arizona.
September 4, 2009
Insitute of the Environment
Once or twice a year, Zack Guido sheds his job as an associate staff scientist for the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) project at The University of Arizona and heads to the Andes mountains to work on vital water issues. Guido donates his time there to a non-profit organization he co-founded, Terra–Resource Development International, which strives to boost the social and economic welfare of rural and poor Bolivian communities while bracing them against the effects of climatic change.
August 20, 2008
Institute of the Environment
A team of scientists lead by a University of Arizona professor is working to develop a theory for predicting plant growth that ultimately will help farmers, foresters, land managers, and researchers anticipate how plants will respond to shifts in climate. The project is funded by a three-year, $737,500 National Science Foundation grant.
April 18, 2008
Institute of the Environment
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.
January 7, 2008
Institute of the Environment
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.
November 30, 2007
Institute of the Environment
As an architect, Nader Chalfoun is naturally interested in buildings. But it’s the spaces around and between them that intrigue him.
September 27, 2007
Institute of the Environment
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.
August 3, 2007
Institute of the Environment
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.