Titles

• Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Director, McDowell Sonoran Field Institute, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

Biography

Helen Rowe is the Field Institute Director of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy and a Senior Sustainability Fellow at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

The McDowell Sonoran Field Institute is the research center of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy. Our mission is to study the environment of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve as well as the human history and human impacts on the Preserve. We do this by partnering with scientists and actively involving volunteers in research as citizen scientists. We use research results for long-term resource management, education, and to contribute to the broader scientific knowledge of natural areas.

Education

• PhD, Ecology, Colorado State University, 2006
• Short Course, Techniques in Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Research, University of York, 2005
• MS, Rangeland Ecosystem Science, Colorado State University, 2000
• BA, Integrated Sustainable Socioeconomic Development, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992

Expertise

• conservation biology
• biodiversity
• urbanization