Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars, and don't forget to register!
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Water Resources Research Center Webinar: Kamilaroi (Indigenous) Knowledge and Methodologies to Inform Water Management
On Zoom: Register Here 3:00 – 4:20 PM
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Perspectives on Resilience: Inspiring lightning talks, an interactive speaker panel, idea-sharing, networking activities and much more!
Hybrid: Please RSVP! 1:00 – 5:30PM
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SGDE Colloquium: Cross-border im/mobility of skilled migrants from the U.S. to China
ENR2 S107 3:30 – 5:00 PM
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IRes presents Indigenous Health: Connecting with Wellbeing and Community Day
Drachman Hall: RSVP 10:00AM – 3:00PM
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A giant velvet mite with its favorite prey, a winged termite. (Jillian Cowles)
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Meet the bug that tastes 'like quinine with habanero'
By Daniel Stolte, University Communications | Monday, January 23
Known as the "King of Sting," Justin Schmidt has dedicated his life to the study of insects, mostly the stinging kind. In a recent paper, he published the culmination of over 30 years of research on giant velvet mites – elusive creatures of the arachnid family. Among his discoveries: Virtually no one wants to eat them, suggesting the mites have to contend with few, if any, predators. 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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Do You Have Perspectives on Resilience?
Please join the Arizona Institute for Resilience 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 inspiring lightning talks, an interactive panel, idea-sharing, and opportunities for collaboration. RSVP >>
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Announcing New AIR-Udall Center Fellows Program
The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and the Arizona Institute for Resilience are pleased to announce a resumption of the environmental-policy track of the Udall Center Fellows Program. For the 2023-24 academic year, AIR will fund up to two fellowships. The fellowships will provide stipends for teaching releases for one semester. This resumes a long and successful tradition begun in 1995 with the predecessors of AIR, in which 24 fellows have been supported from across campus. Details are available here.
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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
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. The application deadline is February 15. Apply today!
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Carson Scholars Applications Now Open
The Carson Scholars Program is a one-year graduate fellowship in the art of environmental and science communication. 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.
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CLIMAS is Hiring an Applied Climatologist
The Climate Assessment for the Southwest program is seeking a talented research professional to help design, organize, and conduct applied climate research in collaboration with the program’s principal investigators and its external stakeholders and partners in Arizona and New Mexico. Learn more >>
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Community Engagement Postdoctoral Researcher
The Udall Center at the University of Arizona is in search of a Community Engagement Postdoctoral Research Associate. This position offers the opportunity to explore community engagement across a number of efforts underway at the Udall Center, including local green infrastructure and urban greening projects, the use of novel geospatial tools in federal natural resources engagement processes, and governance practices in the Colorado River Basin, among other research topics. Learn more >>
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Confluencenter Fronteridades Fellowships Available
The Confluencenter invites UArizona graduate students and faculty involved in interdisciplinary work to apply for the 2023 Fronteridades Fellowships. This is an opportunity for academics who seek to broaden and deepen our understanding of the narratives, experiences, knowledges, histories, spaces, and heritages that shape and are shaped by the U.S. - Mexico borderlands.
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Environment and Society Fellowships Available
The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) program is currently accepting applications for the 2023 Environment & Society Graduate Fellowship. This funding provides an opportunity for graduate students to develop their knowledge, training, and experience in applied environmental science and communication. Learn more and apply today >>
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Environmental Health Science Pilot Grants Program
Have you ever considered research in environmental health sciences? The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) wants to recruit the best and brightest investigators to perform environmental health science research. The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC), an NIEHS-funded Center at the University of Arizona, is promoting the mission of NIEHS through the availability of Pilot Project awards up to $40,000. Pilot projects are designed to provide support for obtaining preliminary data that can be used in developing major proposals for submission to extramural funding agencies. Learn more and apply >>
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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
AIR 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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WRRC Invites Proposals for 2023 Annual Conference
| The Water Resources Research Center invites proposals for conference presentations and posters that offer solutions to the pressing water resource challenges currently facing Arizona and the region. The WRRC 2023 Annual Conference, What Can We Do? Solutions to Arizona’s Water Challenges, will be held July 11-12, 2023, at the UArizona Student Union in Tucson, AZ. |
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WRRC Invites Research Proposals for 104(b) Program
| The Water Resources Research Center invites proposals for research projects that address water-related issues of importance to Arizona and the Southwest. |
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Did you know...?
With over 350 days of sunshine each year,
Tucson is one of the sunniest cities in the United States!
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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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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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