Osvaldo Sala

Osvaldo Sala is an ecologist known for his research on how climate change affects biodiversity and arid ecosystems.

Osvaldo Sala
Alma materThe University of Buenos Aires (BS), Colorado State University (MS, Ph.D.)
Known forClimate modeling, research generating projected changes in global biodiversity, and research investigating the response of arid ecosystems to climate change.
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
InstitutionsArizona State University

Brown University

The University of Buenos Aires

Early life and education

After completing an undergraduate program at The University of Buenos Aires, Sala continued his education at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he earned both his MS and Ph.D. in Ecology.[1]

Career and research

Sala currently works at Arizona State University where he serves as the director of the Global Drylands Center, which he founded. At ASU, he also holds the positions of Regents Professor, Foundation Professor, and Julie A. Wrigley Chair.[2][3] Formerly, he taught as a Professor of Biology at his Alma Mater, The University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.[1]He also worked at Brown University where he founded and directed the Environmental Change Initiative and taught as a Lindemann Professor of Biology[2] (a distinguished position/title[4]).

Awards and honors

Sala was selected as a fellow for The Ecological Society of America in 2013 before being elected their president in 2019.[5][2] He is also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales) of Argentina.[6]

References
  1. "Osvaldo Sala". esa.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. "Osvaldo Sala | School of Life Sciences". sols.asu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. "Faculty at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University". School of Sustainability. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  4. "Institute Fellows | Institute at Brown for Environment and Society". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  5. "Osvaldo Sala begins tenure as President of the Ecological Society of America for 2019–2020 term". www.esa.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  6. "Osvaldo Sala". Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
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