The center will advance research and conservation efforts, educate future conservation scientists and leaders and develop a broader understanding of the Earth's biosphere.
A University of Arizona undergraduate looked at cities as living things to investigate how human energy use changes with rising temperatures. Her research could help save lives from heat waves.
Tackling grand challenges like water management or quantum entanglement effectively requires bringing together expertise from many fields, each with its own piece of the needed solution, and teams like this need support to jump-start their ideas, said University of Arizona President
Robert C. Robbins. This funding allows our researchers to develop innovative ideas, with potentially transformative results. I am looking forward to Dr. Condon s and Dr. Zhang s progress. Laura Condon
C-Accel is a new program that brings research teams together to address national-scale societal challenges, funding multidisciplinary teams with a quicker turnaround than traditional funding cycles. Condon and Zhang lead two of the 29 projects in the program s second cohort. Condon s project will advance cyberinfrastructure that can better model complex groundwater systems to fight climate change. Zhang is creating a prototype of a quantum sensor system that could improve areas including vehicle n