What are the challenges around doing inquiry projects in K-12 schools? Our Sky School has been working on creating professional development resources for teachers, focusing on building comfort and confidence facilitating small-group student projects, especially in schoolyard settings. The other weekend, Rebecca Lipson (assistant director for education) and I went up to Prescott for the…

I went to the climate strike on Friday afternoon to show solidarity from the research community with the young people organizing this and other events. The Phoenix event was powerful – the people who organized it put on a professional event that ended at the state capitol and was covered by news helicopters and vans,…

In January 2020, the lab will be moving to the University of California at Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. We’d like to thank Arizona State University for being an inspirational and innovative place to work for the past two years. We’re also recruiting a new PhD student to start in…

(guest post from authors Kate Weiss and Courtenay Ray) – congratulations to them for a 100% student-authored paper! Our new paper in Ecography seeks to provide functional ecologists with guidance when working across taxa. Functional traits are aspects of phenotypes at the individual scale that respond to or interact with the environment, and have the…