A team of ecologists used lidar technology to scan the leaf canopy of an Amazon forest and found that trees responded to drought in some surprising ways.
Climate change, rapid urbanization, and changing consumption patterns for water, food and energy pose unprecedented challenges for the water sector around the globe. Internationally recognized for its expertise in water-related research, the UA is advancing new management approaches, technologies, tools, and data to build resilience, water security, and water safety for the future.
To raise awareness about UA’s water focus and to foster connections between faculty, students, businesses, and governments, the UA Water Sustainability Program developed the UA Water Network. Organized along five themes, the website highlights the many ways faculty and researchers in UA departments, programs, institutes and centers are tackling complex water issues. The site features engaging videos, an events calendar that includes seminars and colloquiums across campus, an experts directory, and numerous links for students and researchers. The Water Network complements and works in conjunction with the UA Environment site.
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According to the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), the state used about 7.1 million acre-feet of fresh water in 1957 — a figure that was actually lower — at 7.0 million acre-feet in 2017. Meanwhile, the population of the state has increased substantially from just over 1 million in 1957 to more than 7 million in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The 2019 UA Science Lecture Series, Searching for Certainty, explores the debates and discoveries, from scientists across disciplines, that are shaping science today. Now more than ever it's important that challenges presented by threats to the global ecosystem are managed.
A study led by UA analysts George Frisvold, Ashley Kerna Bickel and Dari Duval found that agriculture contributes $2.3 billion to Pinal County details the ongoing negotiations between the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association and Pinal County farmers.
Research from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada is warning that a byproduct of desalination plants – super-salty, potentially toxic brine – is being produced in large quantities and that it could pose serious environmental threats. While the majority of plants worldwide are located in the Middle East and North Africa, many communities in the U.S. are looking into or planning their own desalination plants, said Margaret Wilder, a geographer and ecologist at the UA.