Past events
Vapour-pressure deficit workshop
2024
This event assessed the relative importance of soil moisture versus vapor-pressure deficit as controls for carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.
Future transdisciplinarity at ASUÂ
2024
This workshop defined transdisciplinary research and examined challenges, motivations and collaborative potential across different academic disciplines.
Hispanic drylands: discussion and presentation
2024
This event explored historic the environmental link between drylands and Chicano/Latino culture, fostering sustainable relationships with arid ecosystems.
JRN global drylands modeling workshop
2024
This workshop developed a simplified model that captures how wind, water, climate, disturbances and other factors drive change across dryland ecosystems.
Future transdisciplinarity at ASU
2023
This conference determined single versus transdisciplinary approaches, collaborative research and their efficacy in tackling major societal and environmental problems.
Pulse Reserve Symposium
2018
This event reevaluated and updated the 1973 “pulse-dynamics” paradigm to effectively use decades of data and modern tools to understand ecosystem resilience.