Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars, and don't forget to register!
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WRRC Webinar: The 21st Century Water Quality Challenges for Managed Aquifer Recharge
12:00 – 1:20PM On Zoom. Register here!
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SGDE Colloquium: Geospatial Investigations of Indigenous Environmental and Health Challenges
3:00 – 5:00PM ENR2 S107
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Trent Tresch, CHaSE founding director, places a spacesuit helmet on Space+5 astronaut candidate trainee Sydney Hamilton. (Arlene Islas)
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UArizona trains its first class of aspiring astronauts at Biosphere 2
By Mikayla Mace Kelley, University Communications | Nov. 30, 2022
The University of Arizona's new spaceflight training programs aim to develop classes that will enable the future of inclusive space travel. Read more >>
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Bring Your Creativity to Idea Weekend
Do you enjoy brainstorming ideas? Are you inspired to solve to problems? Would you like to learn more about the process of idea creation? We have the experience for you! Spend a weekend working with a team of peers sparking ideas of how we can cultivate resilient communities. This experience is open to all UArizona students and will use the ideation process to learn more about sustainability, resiliency, and solutions for climate change. Register today!
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Join us at Perspectives on Resilience on February 2
Please join the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments and Societies for an eye-opening afternoon of sharing, learning, and networking around the theme of resilience. Learn how UArizona faculty, researchers, and students approach the topic of resilience from their diverse backgrounds and disciplines, and find new ways to collaborate across campus on impactful, community-oriented projects in the future. This half-day occasion will include short presentations, idea-sharing, and opportunities for identifying common interests.
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Apply for Summer 2023 USDA NRCS Internships
UArizona is partnering with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide hands-on experiences via paid summer internships related to soil health, wildlife biology, environmental engineering, and more. Targeted applicants are students who identify as LGBTQ+ and are majoring in soil science, rangeland management, natural resources, civil and biosystems engineering, or in a related major. Learn more and apply.
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Campus Sustainability Fund Mini Grants
The Campus Sustainability Fund's spring 2023 Mini Grant Preliminary Application is now open! Mini Grants will award between $250 and $5,000. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to submit proposals that advance environmental and social sustainability on campus. Apply today!
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Carson Scholars Applications Are Open!
The Carson Scholars Program is a one-year graduate fellowship in the art of environmental and science communication. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. The scholarships are designed to support and retain graduate students whose research or scholarly inquiry is related to the environment and/or its intersection with social justice, and who are interested in communicating environmental and scientific knowledge to a broad audience.
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Haury is Hiring!
The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice is in search of a Program Coordinator! The work of the Haury Program is to connect, convene, and bring resources to support and strengthen Native and Indigenous faculty, student, and staff pathways at UArizona and to support the water sustainability priorities of Arizona Native Nations. Learn more and apply!
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Paid International Development Internships Available
The Resilience Internships and Student Experiences (RISE) Program is recruiting multiple student interns (undergraduate and graduate) for international development internships starting in the second half of Spring 2023! Students will intern at iDE Global and there are many projects available. |
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Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
Please apply here for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position for the NSF-DISES Net Zero Urban Water Research Coordination Network. The position is based at the University of Arizona and will work with other institutions in the network, focusing on interdisciplinary Net Zero Urban Water activities.
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Research Scientist Position
AIRES International Programs and the Arizona Initiative for Resilience and International Development network are seeking a scientist to engage in international resilience research with your networks. The position is part of a growing team that will collaborate with diverse faculty and researchers on critical, challenging, and cross-cutting topics in development. The position is posted at two levels, Research Scientist III and Research Scientist IV.
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School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Position
Two postdoctoral research associate positions are available. The primary research focus for both positions is interdisciplinary climate change resilience research, with a focus on bridging science and decision-making for heat planning and governance. More information and applications are available for these positions, with urban heat focus and rural, border, and tribal heat focus.
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Did you know...?
Arizona is the fifth state with the most national parks, along with Washington and Florida. Arizona's national parks are Grand Canyon, Saguaro, and Petrified Forest.
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More Environment Newsletters
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Sign up today for the Green Growth Network monthly newsletter for student engagement and funding opportunities!
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Looking for more eco-reads? More about the environmental science of the Southwest? Sign up for the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center's monthly newsletter, EcoClimate News SW!
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Read about the Indigenous Resilience Center's work to co-design environmental solutions with tribal communities.
Subscribe to the IRes Newsletter.
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Land Acknowledgement
Our Institute at the University of Arizona resides on the ancestral homelands of the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui/Yoeme peoples, whose relationships with this land continue to this day. We offer gratitude to the land and the people who have stewarded it for generations, and commit to sustaining relationships that recognize and acknowledge the cultures and histories that make up our community.
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