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Exciting times!

Many thanks to Mother Jones for sharing news about how
'Harvesting Solar Energy Is a Win for America’s Farmers’ if we try an agrivoltaics approach
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Excited to contribute to an Energy Industry press article acknowledging the potential for
'Solar panels and crops can coexist, but more study needed on how and where':
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NPR ran a story on our #agrivoltaics research in Arizona and Colorado, highlighting the potential of agrivoltaics to offer another option in the conversation of food vs. energy production:
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WIRED highlighted the collaborative nature of our #agrivoltaics work - it takes a combination of physical, social, and environmental sciences to more fully capture the potentials and barriers of wider adoption of agrivoltaics:
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NOW THIS just published a video on our #agrivoltaics research in Arizona and Colorado, explaining the potential impacts for food, water, and energy adaptations to a changing world:
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Nice! European article that cites our work in talking about agrivoltaics as a way to achieving several Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).
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Some of our finding from our Agrivoltaics paper were cited within an exciting new article about a new vision for farming.
Solar reared chickens? Cool!

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Our agrivoltaics research was published in Nature Sustainability!
Click this link or the article image to download a copy.


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Wow! Our news of our Agrivoltaics paper has been
trending on Reddit's front page for 3.5 days! 
Those 69k bumps and 1200 comments tell me most people are excited about a food-energy-water solution...

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WIRED magazine covered our agrivoltaics research -
they even made a comic out of our interview!  Super cool!

Click this link to the story on the web or
Click the article photo below to get a PSF with the full comic strip!

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Green America does a great job of contextualizing the need for innovative solutions to our growing problems in generating enough food for a growing population with a shrinking pool of water resources. 
Check out the article below.

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You can read about our work in the context of the great breadth of global work being done with co-locating vegetation and PV in
Scientific American!

Check out the article below.

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Our educational outreach and research were featured by an agricultural industry magazine: Modern growing Maximum yield!
Check out the article below.

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Our research was featured on NPR in the Phoenix area!
Check out the KJZZ NPR link to hear a brief synopsis.


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Our project was named as a World Changing Ideas Finalist
in both the "Energy" and "Food" categories!

Check out the UANews link: https://goo.gl/8qsa4O



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Our research on working to mitigate the
Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect was featured in UANews!
Check out the UANews link: https://goo.gl/8qsa4O
or click here to learn more about the research.


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Leland Sutter has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship!
These fellowships are super competitive and acknowledge Leland's tireless efforts and deep thinking about his science.



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Our research on Identifying and working to mitigate the Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect was featured on ResearchGate's blog!
Check out the link: https://goo.gl/8qsa4O






Leland Sutter got 2nd place in the UofA Institute of the Environment Fall Fest Poster Competition
!
Leland presented on his work on the impacts of brush management on ecosystem services in a semiarid savanna.




Sarah Wolsiffer has joined our Research Group as an Undergraduate Research Assistant and

Katie Kinney has joined our Research Group as a
STAR (STem Teachers and Researchers) fellow for the summer through the CalPoly program
(http://www.starteacherresearcher.org/index.html#whatis).




Leland Sutter will be joining our Research Group and UA Geography

Leland also won the UofA's Harvill Graduate Fellowhip award to support is graduate studies.





Jesse Minor (PhD Candidate) won an Institute of the Environment

Graduate Student Travel Award December 2o15!


The award will allow Jesse to travel to Okinawa, Japan, to present his work at an international c
onference designed to exchange theory, practices and scientific values of Fengshui across Asia, and explore the important role of Fengshui theory in managing local environments and formulate an Asian perspective on environmental management.

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Russ Scott, Joel Biederman, Erik (The Hammer) Hamerlynck, and Greg Barron-Gafford published in Journal of Geophysical Research! The work came online in Dec. 2015!



Steve Archer, Greg Barron-Gafford, Russ Scott, and others
were awarded a grant through the USDA!


The project is titled "
Brush Management And Ecosystem Services: A Quantification Of Trade-Offs On Western Rangelands" and will be a very interdisciplinary approach to understanding how woody plant encroachment and removal influences water resources and ecosystem functioning.

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Associate to join the project! 

You can read more here.





Greg Barron-Gafford, Russ Scott, and Praveen Kumar
were awarded a Collaborative Research grant through the
National Science Foundation's Hydrologic Sciences Program!


The project is focused on studying how dynamic water movement through hydraulic redistribution might influence carbon and water dynamics and linkages between
aboveground and belowground processes. You can read more
here.


  • Home
  • Research
    • Agrivoltaics
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    • Dryland ecohydrology
    • Montane Ecosystem & the Critical Zone
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    • Biogeography!
    • Our Diverse Biosphere!
    • Plants Under Stress
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