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Dan Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) program at the University of Arizona. A human-environment geographer, Dan contributes to and leads inter- and trans-disciplinary teams that conduct place-based, problem-oriented environmental research. The overarching goal of his work is collaborative development of relevant and useful knowledge to prepare for and respond to societal problems related to climate variability and change. Dan's research generally falls into three categories: evaluation of use-inspired environmental research; development of theory and pragmatic approaches to socially-engaged environmental research; and development of knowledge about the social and cultural context for inter- and trans-disciplinary teams and the design and implementation partner engagement strategies.Show Less
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Courses
- CEPSCollaborative Environmental Problem Solving
- ESIIEnvironmental Studies: Ideas and Institutions
Grants
- FMRG: Bio: Distributed Methane Conversion into Value Chemicals via Synthetic Microbial Consortia
Key Personnel (KP)
2022
$3.2M
Active - Cultivating Equitable Responses to Increased Aridity in the US Southwest: The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$1.2M
Active - Shifting from Extractive to Self-determined: Enhancing Indigenous Research and Data Governance in Southwest Climate Adaptation Initiatives
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$291.2K
Active - Rapid: Collaborative Research: Impact of COVID-19 on Food Access in Indigenous Communities in the Arctic and Southwest U.S.
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$99.9K
Active - Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$232.4K
Active - Collaboratively Assessing Critical Social-Ecological System Buffers to Help Build Regional Climate Resilience: The Climate Assessment for the Southwest
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$3.7M
Active - Convergence NNA: Networking Indigenous Arctic and U.S. Southwest Communities on Knowledge Co-Production in Data Sciences
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$126.3K
Active - Climate and Health Adaptation and Monitoring Program (CHAMP) for Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Affected by Climate, Flooding, and Air Quality Issues Related to Dust Storms
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$167.3K
- Vulnerability of Climate and Vector-Borne Diseases
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$65.0K
- Planning for Drought in the Warming and Drying Southwest: Developing a Suite of Drought Indicators for Decision Making in the Four Corners
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$200.0K
News
- CLIMAS Receives $3.75M to Bolster Resilience to Extreme Climate
2017
- Improving Drought Planning on the Hopi Reservation
2016
- Long-Running Climate Program Renewed with $3.5M Grant
2012
- Employees Honored With Staff Awards for Excellence
2010
- Water Workshop to Inform Governors
2008
Publications (58)
Recent
- Making a Difference: Planning for Engaged Participation in Environmental Research
2022
- Health and economic benefits are motivations for individual climate action
2022
- Using scale and human agency to frame ranchers’ discussions about socio-ecological change and resilience
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Rancher’s Knowledge of Social-Ecological Change: Centering Agency and Scale in Resilience. /span
2022
- An Expanded Set of Ethical Principles for Transdisciplinary Social-Ecological Research
2021
- Knowledge Governance and Learning: Examining Challenges and Opportunities in the Colorado River Basin
2021
- Co-producing Knowledge in a Time of Rapid Change: Lessons from the Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network
2021
- The impact of COVID-19 on food access for Alaska natives in 2020
2021
- 7 Sciencein Diplomacy
2021
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Sovereignty for Alaska Natives
2021
- Expanded ethical principles for research partnership and transdisciplinary natural resource management science
2021
- Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network: Facilitating Exchange between Arctic and Southwest Indigenous Communities on Food and Knowledge Sovereignty
2020
- Building capacity for societally engaged climate science by transforming science training
2020
- Upper Lake Mary: Lake Level Response to Climate Variability
2020
- Engaged Research to Advance Scientific and Societal Goals: A Case Study from the Lower Colorado River Basin
2019
- Contextualizing climate science: applying social learning systems theory to knowledge production, climate services, and use-inspired research
2019
- Building an Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network Through Relational Accountability
2019
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Socially-Engaged Climate Research Program: Moving Toward an Evolution in Theory and Practice
2019
- Science to Action: Enabling Science to Have Social Impact Through Innovations by Individuals, Organizations, and Research Programs II Posters
2019
- Science to Action: Frontiers in Effective Decision Maker–Scientist Partnerships Posters
2018
- Resilience, Sustainability, and Indigenous Communities: Knowledges in Dialogue for Environmental Research, Assessment, and Planning
2018
- Ongoing Regional Climate Assessment as a Social Learning System: Examples from the US Southwest
2018
- The Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network: Supporting Indigenous Scholars through Research and Academic Innovations
2018
- Supporting Tribal Data Governance for Community Resilience: A Southwest Indigenous Climate Summit
2018
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty: How Scientists and Researchers Can Empower Indigenous Data Governance Posters
2018
- Variability of daily precipitation extremes in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States
2017
- Partnerships drive science to action across the AGU
2017
- Our Climate is Doing What? Tailoring Information about Regional Climate Change to Support Local Adaptation Decision Making
2017
- Science to Action: Toward More Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Partnerships I
2017
- Discerning “flavors” of drought using climate extremes indices
2017
- Drought Monitoring to Support Planning for the Hopi Tribe: Final Report 2010-2016
2017
- The Role of Reconciling Values in Efforts to Build Community Resilience to Global Environmental Change
2017
- Evaluation to advance science policy: lessons from Pacific RISA and CLIMAS
2016
- The neglected heart of science policy (revisited): Balancing knowledge and action in an age of science and technology
2016
- Charting a path forward: building AGU's capacity to help foster scientist-decision maker engagement
2016
- Toward More Effective Decision Maker-Scientist Engagement III Posters
2016
- Rain gauges to range conditions: Collaborative development of a drought information system to support local decision-making
2016
- More than just consumers: Integrating local observations into drought monitoring to better support decision making
2016
- Moving toward the deliberate coproduction of climate science knowledge
2015
- Moving Toward the Deliberate Co-Production of Climate Science Knowledge
2015
- Transdisciplinary climate research to support decision making
2015
- Analysis of Extreme Heat in Historical and Projected Climate Simulations for Regional Climate Planning Purposes in the US
2015
- Planning for Change in Southern Arizona: A report from the Southern Arizona Regional Climate Summit for Municipal Leaders
2014
- Linking Environmental Research and Practice: Lessons from the Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States
2014
- The missing piece: Drought impacts monitoring
2013
- Field of dreams or dream team? Assessing two models for drought impact reporting in the semiarid Southwest
2013
- Helping a Community Develop a Drought Impacts Reporting System
2013
- Linking Climate Change Science and Adaptation Policy at the Community Scale through Anticipatory Governance: A Review of Concepts with Application to Arizona Communities
2013
- Informing decisions with a climate synthesis product: Implications for regional climate services
2013
- Unique challenges facing southwestern tribes
2013
- Wildfire management and forecasting fire potential: the roles of climate information and social networks in the southwest United States
2012
- Drought preparedness for tribes in the Four Corners region
2011
- Climate change, drought and early warning on Western Native Lands workshop report
2010
- Putting Knowledge into Action: Tapping the Institutional Knowledge of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regions 2 and 8 to Address Climate Change
2009
- Who’s paying attention to the drought on the Colorado Plateau
2009
- Science and socio-ecological resilience: examples from the Arizona-Sonora Border
2008
- The Escuela experience: the Tucson Indian School in perspective
1997
- Field Workshop in Earth Science Education
1976