Elise Gornish Appointed Director of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill Aug. 27, 2024 Elise Gornish, an associate professor and extension specialist in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment under the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, has been appointed the new faculty director of the Arizona Institute for Resilience’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill. Read more Image
Severe Weather is Impacting Outdoor Concerts Aug. 15, 2024 Gregg M. Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona, says rising temperatures and heat waves are already impacting summer concerts, and in hotter regions, the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) are becoming riskier too. Read more Image
Giant old saguaros can be resilient. It's baby saguaros researchers are worried about. Aug. 14, 2024 Researcher Peter Breslin, of the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona has surveyed thousands of saguaros that spike up from Tumamoc Hill, a volcanic outcropping in Tucson, in 2022 and 2023. Read more Image
Navajo Nation, University of Arizona Strengthen Public Health Collaboration With MOU Aug. 13, 2024 Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, alongside key representatives from the Navajo Department of Health and the Navajo Epidemiology Center, signed an MOU on August 5 with the University of Arizona to collaborate on data related to COVID-19 infections. Read more Image
Building Community Through Music, Art, and Watershed Science July 1, 2024 The winners of the second AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant seek to inspire community stewardship of local watersheds through music, art, and science. Read more Image
Magic of the Monsoon: A 'Socially and Ecologically' Important Phenomenon June 20, 2024 AIR is again hosting Monsoon Fantasy Forecasts, a game in which desert dwellers – or anyone around the world with an internet connection – can bet on the amount of rainfall that each month of the monsoon will bring to the Southwest. Read more Image
Tumamoc Researcher Seeks Ways to Adapt Agriculture to Climate Change June 7, 2024 What if you could take foods grown in the Sonoran Desert and plant them around the world, addressing future food insecurity worsened by a warming planet? Read more Image
Rachel Gallery Selected as New Voice in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine May 22, 2024 Rachel E. Gallery, Director of the AIR Lovejoy Center, has been selected as a member of the 2024-2026 cohort of New Voices in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Read more Image
Undergraduate Researcher Unites Diverse Talents and Community Impact May 21, 2024 Arden Holloway — an AIR Earth Grant intern and Honors student who is graduating with a 4.0 GPA, double majors in Urban and Regional Development and Arabic, and minoring in both Geographic Information Science and Gender and Women’s Studies — is the recipient of the SBS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for spring 2024. This award recognizes a graduating senior in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences who has demonstrated academic achievement, originality, and creativity in an independent, undergraduate research project. Read more Image
More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported – here’s how satellites can find the leaks and avoid wasting a valuable resource May 3, 2024 Read more Image