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.
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
Why use locally sourced pine nuts? It’s a matter of a piñon.
Guest Post by Andreas Wion, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and the Graduate Degree Program
Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?
Guest Post by Holly Roth, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Due to many variables,
Mitigating Canal Seepage: A Great Avenue To Save Irrigation Water
Guest Post by Rehman Lund, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University Does
Climate change is about more than just carbon
Guest Post by Katherine Rocci, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program
Uploading Nature into the Matrix to Predict Biodiversity Loss
Guest Post by Amanda Cicchino, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at
When planting trees is planting hope no more: Perspectives on large-scale reforestation
Guest Post by Jessa Ata, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural Biology at Colorado State University I. In for
For Whom the Bellwether Tolls: Polar Bears, Climate Change, and Confounding Art with Science
Guest Post by Annie Kellner, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree
A Plastic Economy: Is Recycling Broken?
Guest Post by Mariel Price 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage
How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities
Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change