Mentors

CARSON SCHOLARS PROGRAM FACULTY MENTORS

Throughout the scholarship year, Carson Scholars work closely with several UArizona Faculty Mentors who provide hands-on training and other resources to develop skills, strategies, and products to effectively convey the value of their research and enhance their skills in communicating science to a variety of audiences.

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Kevin Bonine

Director, Education Initiatives, Arizona Institute for Resilience
Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

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Rachel Gallery

Joint Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology


CARSON PEER MENTORS

In addition to working with faculty mentors, Carson Scholars also receive peer mentorship from former Carson Scholars who are still in graduate school. Carson Peer Mentors are selected from the previous year's cohort and provide support to our Carson Scholars, Faculty Mentors, and Program Coordinator. 

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Alexis Hagestad


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Anu Sethuraman



CARSON SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDER 

 

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Diana Liverman, Ph.D.
Regents’ Professor, School of Geography, Development and Environment

Diana Liverman is the founder of the Carson Scholars program. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change, particularly climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate governance. She also works on the political ecology of environmental management in the Americas. Her current projects include work on climate justice including the role of women in climate science, climate and poverty in Tucson, and earth system boundaries. She has been an IPCC lead author, an Earth Commissioner, advisor to the mayor of Tucson on climate justice, and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Listen to Dr. Liverman's long podcast interview with UA student news about her career here.
High Country News journalist Maya Kapoor interviews Diana Liverman on climate justice here.

 

CARSON SCHOLARS PROGRAM SPONSORED BY

Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation

College of Engineering 

College of Science Galileo Circle

Graduate College

Arizona Institute for Resilience

Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment & Social Justice

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences