This project, funded by a $1.25 million grant to ASU from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looks at the ways in which organizations help African farmers adapt to Climate Change.
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In response to the direct call by Pacific Northwest coastal communities for “a coordinated research agenda among universities, governmental agencies, NGOs, and others” to help them achieve resilience, the Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub (Cascadia CoPes hub) will inform and enable integrated hazard assessment, mitigation, and adaptation—including comprehensive planning, policy making, and engineering—through targeted scientific advances in collaboration with communities.
CSTEPS is participating in this planning grant effort with ASU's Fulton Schools of Engineering. I-BREATHE will revolutionize the built environment to actively remove harmful gases in outdoor and indoor environments, thereby contributing to the wellbeing of occupants, the environment, and the community while enhancing the durability of the built environment.
CSTEPS co-led research and development of a new white paper titled Post COVID-19 Implications for Genetic Diversity and Genomics Research &Innovation: A Call for Governance and Research Capacity. This white paper emerged from an independent expert consultation commissioned by the Secretariat of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, with support from the Government of Italy.
This study will advance research on foreign faculty by conceptualizing a broader notion of foreign status that goes beyond nationality of birth and education to include cultural characteristics, family composition and location, local community engagement, and international professional experience. The project scope will focus on the analysis and integration of extant data, and in so doing make clearer the value and limitations of those datasets.
SciOPS (Scientist Opinion Panel Survey) is a new type of science, technology, and innovation (STI) knowledge commons
This project addresses the topic of global social innovation in science capacity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining three intertwining features of the social dynamics of international collaborative teams: Social innovation, Adaptation and Resilience, and Learning and Transferability. Social innovation refers to new and different ways of modifying individual and group behavior within the context of team science. The research design builds on interdisciplinary knowledge about individual conduct and group dynamics within the context of teams.
Improving the global exchange of germplasm for crop breeding (2021) Plant genetic resources: A review of current research and future needs, Welch, E.W. and Louafi, S. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/product/3-190-9781786768827
Gea Galluzzi, Aseffa Seyoum, Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega and Eric Welch (2020) The role of genetic resources in breeding for climate change: the case of public breeding programmes in eighteen developing countries Plants, 9(9), 1129
Funded through the National Science Foundation's RAPID program in July 2020, this research takes advantage of the unique opportunity window offered by the COVID-19 crisis to understand how and why institutional determinants of data access and sharing evolve over the course of a public health crisis and how data repositories can act as facilitators (or barriers) for rapid research response to societal challenges.