First name

Osvaldo

Last name

Sala

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2018

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Bio summary

Sala is a Foundation Professor and the founding director of the Global Drylands Center at ASU. He has been trained as an dryland ecologist working from the local to the global levels. He is known for his large-scale field manipulative experiments simulating climate change around the world.