People

Arianne Cease

Director

Global Locust Initiative

Arianne Cease, associate professor and Director of the Global Locust Initiative, uses transdisciplinary approaches to study how human-plant-insect interactions affect agroecosystem and locust management sustainability.

Rick Overson

Research Scientist (FSC)

Global Locust Initiative

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Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University PO BOX 875402Tempe AZ

Staff

Mira Ries

Project Coord Research

Global Locust Initiative

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As project coordinator for the Global Locust Initiative, Mira’s role is to collaborate with stakeholders and GLI Network members to develop and activate projects, events, and research. She manages multiple projects for the GLI and is passionate about educational outreach and making resources transparent and free for all. Mira is an alumnus of GLI Labs and did her graduate work in Senegal where she studied plant-soil-insect-farmer interactions. Mira’s interests are rooted in understanding how soil care and land-use practices can create sustainable alternatives to locust/grasshopper management, and more recently, how humanities and art can lead to new perspectives on human…

Postdocs and students

Sydney Millerwise

Graduate Service Assistant

Environmental Life Sciences PhD Students

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Her research examines how nutrition and population density shape tradeoffs in locust reproduction, migration, and immunity, using lab and field studies to understand how resource conditions drive life-history allocation.