Gregg Garfin: Director, Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR); Science Translation and Outreach Professor and Extension Specialist,
School of Natural Resources and the Environment at University of Arizona
Wednesday, September 25, 2024,
2:30pm -3:30pm,
ASA Koffler Great Room and Zoom
The management of coupled human and environmental systems, amidst uncertainty and rapid climate, environmental, and societal changes, is among the many daunting challenges facing societies across the world. Regional and urban planners, public health professionals, land and water managers, Tribal environmental professionals, and others seek timely scientific research and other services to inform their decisions and to meet public needs and expectations for responsive management and information. Within the academy, university administrators, researchers, and funding agencies are increasingly asking how research contributes to demonstrable change or impact within society. At the intersection of these needs and efforts, a growing body of research demonstrates that engaged research, borne of partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties—so-called transdisciplinary research—leads to improved uptake of science to inform decisions.
In this presentation Gregg will describe his work with societal partners to provide climate services for informing decisions and planning and show case studies from projects with ecosystem and cultural resource managers, urban planners, and others. He will also briefly present an array of similar efforts from various centers and initiatives at the University of Arizona’s resilience institute.
Gregg Garfin, Extension Specialist and Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, works to bridge the science-society interface through dialogues between scientists and decision makers and collaborative climate and environment research projects. His research focuses on adaptation to climate-related risks. He served as co-lead author for the Southwest chapter in the Third and Fourth National Climate Assessments. His work includes the development of methods to assess National Park Service cultural resource vulnerability to climate extremes. He holds other campus affiliations, including AIR Director for Science Translation and Outreach; Arizona Institute for Resilience; and Director, Water, Society & Policy M.S. program.
Compiled and edited by Rosemary Brown, Academy Village Volunteer
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