CAP LTER Seminar || Jennifer Vanos
'Heat, Air quality, and Human Health: Global Challenges & Local Solutions' presented by Jennifer Vanos, Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation.
The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program advances research and education on urban ecology and urban socioecological systems. It is one of two LTER sites funded by the National Science Foundation that specifically studies urban ecology.
CAP LTER has been a leader in interdisciplinary science, bringing together teams of individuals from different fields to investigate the complex dynamics of the Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding Sonoran Desert.
Educating the next generation of urban ecologists is a core mission of the CAP LTER. The Ecology Explorers program engages K-12 students and teachers, while undergraduate and graduate students are active researchers whose work is published in leading scientific publications.