Special Edition SW Climate Podcast - 2025 E&S Fellows

Welcome to this special episode of the Southwest Climate Podcast with guest hosts: Gigi Owen & Christina Greene.  In this special episode, we bring you 3 guests that were all part of the CLIMAS Environment & Society Fellowship program over the past year.  A lot of the science that CLIMAS researchers do is done collaboratively with and for our community partners so that the science that we do ends up being useful to decision-making and policy development and planning.  Our Fellowship program offers University of Arizona graduate students the opportunity to take this kind of collaborative approach to address environmental and societal problems.  Our fellows are here today to share more about their work and what they've been up to over the past year. 2025 CLIMAS Environment & Society Fellows Lois Ann Polashenski We Are All Impacted by Pollution Overlooked Impacts of Circular Economies: Copper Slag Repurposing in Cottonwood, Arizona Alyssa Rosenbaum From Lasagna to Lettuce: A Journey into Fresh Produce Safety Where Science and Community Meet A.G. Steig In Fire’s Footprint Ecological Fire with Prescribed Burn Associations Talitha Neesham-McTiernan (*Unable to attend podcast recording) Mapping the Missing Half? Mapping in the meantime: on community-engaged research when the ground shifts