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A satellite view of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, partially obscured by heavy, swirling cloud cover indicative of severe weather systems or a hurricane. The image highlights vulnerable coastal regions, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean, providing geographic context for tracking meteorological hazards, storm paths and regional disaster impact mapping.

How ASU is building disaster readiness into the conservation workforce

As natural disasters reshape protected landscapes, the conservation workforce needs skills that degree pipelines alone cannot supply fast enough. ASU Learning Enterprise is building that capacity through short, work-ready programs, and a new disaster preparedness course from Conservation Futures Academy shows the model at work.

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Building the conservation design workforce

Conservation is shifting from protecting habitat to rebuilding it. That demands practitioners who can design at the systems level, and a new Conservation Futures Academy course shows how ASU is building that workforce.