HUMANnature is an evolving communications project of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability designed to aggregate and promote environmental science communication across the Colorado State University campus and beyond. The site is designed to provide a platform for students, faculty, research partners, and guests to communicate and discuss the pressing environmental, economic, and societal issues of sustainability and our future.
Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change
Guest Post by Kathryn Moore, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember
What’s the beef: How European Trade Restrictions Threaten one of the most Ambitious Wildlife Conservation Endeavors of our Time
Guest Post by Coby McDonald, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Department of Biology at
Living in the wilderness edge: A dream came true?
Guest Post by Clara Mosso, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in
Solving wildlife crime one DNA sequence at a time
Guest Post by Sheela Turbek, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Imagine your favorite crime
Thinking like water to save the sage-grouse
Guest Post by Matt DeSaix, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Wet meadow restoration Blue
Toadally Awesome: The Hidden Benefits of Amphibians
Guest Post by Bennett Hardy, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Graduate Degree Program
Animal farming: a nitrogen and greenhouse gas party
Guest Post by Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Growing up
Fall Showers Bring May Flowers?
Guest Post by Olivia Hajek, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado
The Art of Affect: Creative Expression as Personal Resistance and Resilience
Guest Post by Julia Branstrator, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University
It Must Be Exhausting Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero: Why non-charismatic fauna deserves some spotlight
Guest Post by Jackie Billotte, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural Biology at Colorado State University Up to 1
Seeing double: How combining evolutionary and ecological perspectives can change the world
Guest Post by Eliza Clark, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
On backpacking, dance, and economics: how randomness and passion made me a better researcher
Guest Post by Débora Nunes, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University A few summers ago,
How Forecasts of Opportunity Help Communities Prepare for Climate Disasters
Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University If we could
Cover Crops and the Soil Microbiome: How Plants Feed Their Friends
Guest Post by Valerie Seitz, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture & Cell and Molecular Biology
Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean
Guest Post by Michelan Wilson, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into
Acts of Pessimistic Hope for the Anthropocene
Guest Post by Mary Witlacil, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a
Peering into the Arctic future with AI and storytelling
Guest Post by Pat Keys, Lead Research Scientist at the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University Climate change is triggering disasters in
The Real Glaciers of Colorado
Guest Post by Brianna Rick, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University If you’ve ever been
We have the tools to design climate-adapted forests. Should we intervene?
Guest Post by Katie Nigro, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and the Graduate Degree Program
An abnormally dry subject: drought
Guest Post by Leena Vilonen, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at
Freezing roots and shoots: Challenges in plant cryopreservation
Guest Post by Fionna Samuels, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University The Colorado State University