✿ It’s time for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Life Sciences
The Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Initiative in the School of Life Sciences is hard at work! We've received funding for inclusive curriculum revisions for high enrollment courses (Inclusive Teaching Fellowships) and for faculty inclusivity/bystander...
✿ Welcome Briana, Gabby, and Juan, our new WAESO Research Fellows!
We're pleased to introduce you the newest members of our team, Briana Thomas, Gabriela Goncalves, and Juan Pablo Paredes-Sanchez. These students joined our group as 2021 WAESO Research Fellows. This semester they'll be working with Hall Lab researchers Aleigh...
✿ New paper! Globalization of nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response: A 20-year perspective
I'm thrilled to share my new paper on global nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response, which is to be published in the 50th Anniversary Collection of the journal, Ambio. This was a fun article to write, as a 20-year look-back on the field and how its progressed...
✿ Dr. Michele Clark joins the Earth Systems Science for the Anthopocene team as a post-doctoral scholar
We are excited to announce that former Hall Lab student, Dr. Michele Clark, will stay at ASU for her new post-doctoral position to lead the graduate scholars network of ESSA, the Earth Systems Science for the Anthopocene initiative! ESSA is a graduate training...
✿ Karina Renteria wins Best Poster Award at the 2020 WAESO STEM Research Conference
We are pleased to announce that our very own Karina Renteria has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the WAESO Annual Conference for Undergraduate STEM research! Karina presented her research on invasive plants in Nepal, tilted "Impacts of invasive plant...
❀ Finishing Ph.D. student Megan Wheeler wins 2020 FWA Distinguished Grad Student Award
Congratulations to ecologist, data scientist, and Ph.D. student Megan Wheeler, who has been honored with the 2020 Distinguished Graduate Student Award from the ASU Faculty Women's Association! We're so proud of you, Megan.
✿ Incoming M.S. student Alexandreana Cocroft awarded ASU Graduate College Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship
We are proud to announce that incoming M.S. student Alexandreana Cocroft has received an Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship from the ASU Graduate College. Alexandreana will join the Hall Lab at ASU and our NSF Macrosystems Biology team this Fall 2020 to...
✿ Luis Gutierrez investigates the influence of families and culture on environmental career pursuits
Congratulations to Luis Gutierrez for successfully defending his Barrett Honors thesis, titled "Ethnic, Familial, and Cultural Barriers Impacting non-White Representation in Environmental Programs." He found that students choice of degree program were unrelated to...
✿ WAESO students present wildlife ecology research posters
Congratulations to WAESO students Isaiah Bing, Rafael Rodriguez Garcia, Daniela Kenney, and Karina Renteria for successfully presenting their posters at the Annual WAESO Research Conference in Tempe, Arizona! Kudos also to mentors extraordinaire, Ph.D. candidate...
✿ Our work on wildlife friendly yards is in the news!
Congratulations to collaborator and Susannah Lerman for her interview by the National Wildlife Federation! Cultivating Change Wildlife-friendly gardening shows promise for restoring biodiversity in our increasingly urban world. By Jessica Snyder Sachs, Apr 01, 2020