Bill Smith, an assistant professor with the UA's School of Natural Resources and the Environment, leads a team that uses 30 years of data to create the first ever "grass-cast." The team uses historical data for counties, plus satellite images and weather forecasts to create a map of where to most likely find good vegetation growth.
With an unparalleled network of environmental monitoring stations, research field sites, data, and interdisciplinary scientists, the UA is pioneering use-inspired ecosystem research that helps manage and conserve the lands, forests, oceans, landscapes, and wildlife of the western U.S. and beyond for those who enjoy and depend upon them.
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The UA's Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium held a hands-on educational event and screening of "Dynamic Earth" on World Oceans Day.
A group of scientists, including UA oceanographer Joellen Russell, has new findings suggesting that Antarctica's Southern Ocean — long known to play an integral role in climate change — may not be absorbing as much pollution as previously thought.
Layered deposits of coral skeletons hold vast stores of environmental data from thousands of years ago, including annual records of ocean temperatures, water pollution and storm activity. UA geoscientist Gloria Jimenez and colleagues recently assembled a detailed record of water temperature changes from 1940 to 2010.
North Idaho is among parts of the West that can expect to see more than five times the area burned during the next 20 years than fires covered in the past 20. That trend is expected to continue across the Western U.S. and northwestern Canada, though not uniformly, according to the recent study by forest scientists Don Falk and Thomas Swetnam of the UA, Thomas Kitzberger of Argentina and Leroy Westerling of the University of California, Merced.
Events
An arboretum is defined as a living collection of trees, so what guided tour could be more fitting at the UA's Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior than a once-a-month "Trees of BTA" narrated walk?
We invite those who love all things sylvan and want to learn more about trees to be here for a relaxed, slow-paced afternoon tour featuring arboretum staffer Jeff Payne for a chance to learn about trees both native to the Sonoran Desert and exotic, with a skilled professional's tips on tree care and horticulture.
Have you tasted the sweet, unique flour that can be ground from mesquite pods? How about prickly-pear cactus fruit jelly, or a nopalito? The pickled strips of a prickly-pear cactus pad? At the UA's Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, Choctaw Nation member and ethno-botanist Dave Morris will guide a walk where you'll see prickly-pear cacti, the towering stalks of our native Agave chrysantha and mesquite trees, with a chance to taste a few "desert edible" samples ranging from prickly-pear jelly to nopalitos, mesquite flour and agave nectar.
An arboretum is defined as a living collection of trees, so what guided tour could be more fitting at the UA's Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior than a once-a-month "Trees of BTA" narrated walk?
We invite those who love all things sylvan and want to learn more about trees to be here for a relaxed, slow-paced afternoon tour featuring arboretum staffer Jeff Payne for a chance to learn about trees both native to the Sonoran Desert and exotic, with a skilled professional's tips on tree care and horticulture.
The USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) supports science and decision-making in a wide range of natural resource management applications by collecting, storing, and sharing plant and animal phenology data and derived data products. Through the plant and animal phenology program, Nature’s Notebook, and via the USA-NPN website, the Network offers flexible mechanism for data collection, management, access, and visualization.
Summer 2018 brings the return of our most kid-friendly guided walking tour: "Learn Your Lizards" outings at 8:00 a.m. May 5 guided by Audrey Owens and also Kurt Radamaker -- and another on June 9 featuring Casa Grande reptile enthusiast and educator Wild Man Phil Rakoci. Additional guides for the August 11 walk include Arizona Audubon wildlife biologists Steve Prager and Cathy Wise. Walks continue Sept. 8 and Sept.