Sonoran Desert @ ASU

“Thomas Cahill is an associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State University. He has focused his scholarly research on environmental and analytical chemistry, although an eclectic publication record attests to wide-ranging interest. His primary research goal is to determine the effects of anthropogenic chemicals on organisms and ecosystems by linking the fields of environmental chemistry, which determines the fate and transport of a chemical in the environment, and toxicology, which assesses the impacts of chemicals on organisms and ecosystems” (ASU) 

Education 

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Health, University of Nevada-Reno 2000 M.S. Ecology (Ecotoxicology), University of California-Davis 1997 B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Biology (Honors), University of California-Davis 1994

“The idea originally was COVID-related. Whenever professors had an Ecology class, and they need to get the students out into the field to do sampling and surveys, you had to get people to carpool and take some of their own personal vehicles. Now with COVID, that fell out. It was a logistical nightmare to get students out into the field. There are not many fields near us anymore. So instead of trying to bring the students to the field, we bring the field to the students.”

- Thomas Cahill, ASU Associate Professor

https://newcollege.asu.edu/desert-restoration-zone#:~:text=The%20Desert%20Restorat