Our Sponsors

The Western Mountain Initiative is an integration of research programs that study global change in mountain ecosystems of the western United States. The overarching objective of WMI is to understand and predict the responses of Western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change. 

The Center for Environmental Sciences and Education at Northern Arizona University brings together four separate Colleges within NAU to offer an interdisciplinary program leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in Environmental Sciences.

The LTRR at the University of Arizona in Tucson supports faculty, students, and scientific staff engaged in a diverse array of research programs which include fire history and fire ecology, multiproxy paleoclimatology, archaeology, biogeography, isotope geochemistry, paleoecology, biogeochemistry, geomorphology, numerical and statistical modeling, and even public health.

USGCRP is an interagency program involving thirteen federal agencies in helping to understand, assess and predict global change.

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s mission is to deliver scientific knowledge to help human societies develop in harmony with Earth’s environment. Its scientific objective is to describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth System, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human actions.