27 January 2026
16:00 - 13:00 UTC0
From Sea to Sky: Island Systems from Taiwan to Hawai’i to the Desert Southwest
Humanities for the Environment
Speakers :
- +1+3
- Environment
- Research
Chris J. Barton
Assistant Director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Assistant Research Professor within the School of Life Sciences, and Program manager for Hawaiʻi and the Pacific for ASU’s Executive Education team @ Arizona State University
Chris J. Barton is the Assistant Director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Assistant Research Professor within the School of Life Sciences, and Program manager for Hawaiʻi and the Pacific for ASU’s Executive Education team. His research maps the politics of knowledge in global development and conservation, with the goal of enabling productive collaboration across knowledge systems. He has written on how knowledge is used and produced in the discipline and profession of conservation and how ideas which offer panaceas for difficult problems come to influence development policy.. He works closely with community partners in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
