The Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH) supports cross-disciplinary researchers and community partners to plan and implement programs that will help underserved communities in hot and dry geographic regions adapt to climate-driven health threats. The Center’s applied research in the Southwestern United States will build knowledge and practice that will benefit communities globally.
UC3 has provided a platform for UArizona’s efforts to work directly with community stakeholders on applied solutions, while also establishing shared environmental leadership endeavors with regional, state, and national partners. The long-term goal of UC3 is to make existing University of Arizona resilience activities more visible and impactful, and to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage with the community through these efforts.
The International Resilience Lab (IRL) leads and facilitates socially engaged research and collaboration between the University of Arizona and local and global partners with the goal of advancing theoretical, practical, methodological, and educational contributions to research and scholarship on resilience, climate adaptation, and disaster risk reduction in international contexts.
The Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes) works on the areas of food, water, and energy with tribes. IRes identifies and looks for resources to support co-designing solutions with Indigenous communities.
The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) - a NOAA funded partnership between the University of Arizona, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, and New Mexico State University—has been working with stakeholders from the private sector, academia, local, state, federal, and tribal government since 1998 to help bring the best-available knowledge to challenges related to weather and climate in the Southwest.
The Center for Applied Hydroclimate Sciences (CAHS) hopes to provide better hydroclimate predictions and projections to help leverage better decision making and science translation, inform natural resource managers and policy makers in arid regions, and provide infrastructure for big-data management.
Making Arizona showcases stories of Arizonans experiencing and addressing aspects of climate change. The documentary series will make use of existing knowledge of local climate experts to boil down the often daunting scope of global climate change to a local level. Screenings of the films around the state in combination with discussions are designed to spark community dialogue.
The Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) is a grant program of the Office of Sustainability. Eligible project proposals are diverse and can include projects that focus on waste reduction, energy use, social justice, and other efforts that meaningfully advance environmental and social sustainability on campus.
The SW CASC provides objective scientific information, tools, and techniques that land, water, wildlife, and cultural resource managers and other interested parties can apply to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change impacts in the southwestern U.S.
The USA National Phenology Network uses the Internet to bring 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 U.S.