Ecology and conservation
University City Exchange
Convenes and engages regional community, municipal, nonprofit, academic, philanthropic, and private sector partners to address resilience challenges like heat, water, energy, and equity through collective knowledge sharing, education, and problem solving
Central Arizona-Phoenix for Long-Term Ecological Research
Advances research and education on urban ecology and urban socio-ecological systems, as one of two LTER sites funded by the National Science Foundation that specifically studies urban ecology
Global Drylands Center
Engages key actors of dryland stewardship to develop use-inspired research, training and solutions for arid lands around the world
Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science
Leads spatially-explicit scientific and technological research focused on mitigating and adapting to global environmental change