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The winners of the second AIR Annual Resilience Theme Grant seek to inspire community stewardship of local watersheds through music, art, and science.

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.

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?

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.

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.

With federal guidelines set to expire in 2026, policymakers and interest groups are hustling to set a course for the Colorado River's policy future. Here's what four UArizona experts had to say about the current state of governance on the river.

Michael Kotutwa Johnson, supported by a grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, aims to protect crop biodiversity and ensure access to nutritious food for Indigenous people.

With an NSF grant of nearly $150,000, UArizona and partner universities are developing relationships with Native American tribes to advance geoscience education in the Grand Canyon.

To bring attention to the importance of flood justice and opportunities for engagement, our author working group, in partnership with the Arizona Institute for Resilience and the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, held the first Flood Justice Symposium at the University of Arizona in April 2023.