Education

The FEWSION project aims to provide highly accessible educational resources for the public, for students and instructors, and for policymakers, by making your Food, Energy, and Water system more visible.

Classroom Resources

• Graduate Textbook Released: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus
  Editors Dr. Peter Saundry, Adjunct Professor of Energy at Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and Environment, and Dr. Benjamin Ruddell, Professor in and the Director of the School […]
• FEW-View™ Poster Released
  A poster to represent FEW-View ™ has been released by the ASU Decision Theater, members of the FEWSION team.
• INFEWS-ER
  Allied with the FEWSION project, the INFEWS-ER will provide a virtual environment for completing the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) graduate student experience, thereby facilitating the generation of human capital who can address grand challenges […]
• A Participatory Curriculum “The FEWSION for Community Resilience Process”
  The FEWSION for Community Resilience Network (F4R™) offers this participatory process and curriculum that is ideal for college courses on Food Energy and Water systems and also for community organizations with a mission to improve their […]
• FEWSION™ Data Visualization: FEW-View™
  FEWSION™ is building the first complete empirical description of the U.S. food, energy, and water system so that every citizen and policymaker in the U.S. can see where their food, energy, and water come from. […]

Audio

Featured: Podcast Series – Crucial FEWSION Episodes
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• Crucial FEWSION Episode 9: Net Primary Production – From A Pixel to the Planet
  Earth’s Primary Life Support System … And Why It’s Important To Understand How Humans Are Changing It Podcast Net Primary Production (NPP) is the term used for the amount of biomass stored when plants take […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 8: Harnessing Hestia and Vulcan. A US-wide CO2 Emissions Monitoring Network
  Podcast In this episode of Crucial FEWSION, NAU carbon scientist Kevin Gurney explains the state of research on proto-types for a U.S. national CO2 emissions monitoring network, harnessing two models that FEWSION researchers has developed […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 7: Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks
  Podcast Hear nature paper authors Michael Gomez, Alfonso Mejia, and Benjamin Ruddell explain how they tested the ability of US food supply chains to respond to shocks like extreme weather events, global pandemics, and political […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 6: Understanding U.S. Food Supply Chains
  Podcast How much do you know about the supply chains that bring you your food? Do you know how far your food travels to reach you? And how resilient the food supply chains across the […]
• Why the biggest reservoirs in the west are running low–and what to do about it
  Podcast Brian Richter, president of Sustainable Waters, and author of the book, Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability, talks about the roots of the problem, and what we can do about it. On […]
• NAU Research Shows U.S Supply Chains Still Intact In Midst Of Coronavirus
  KNAU Arizona Public Radio By MELISSA SEVIGNY • MAR 31, 2020 “The coronavirus pandemic has caused a spike in demand for food and other basic supplies, but new research from Northern Arizona University shows supply […]
• Study: Beef, Dairy Production Linked To Depleted Rivers
  KNAU Arizona Public Radio By MELISSA SEVIGNY • MAR 10, 2020 “A new study from Northern Arizona University shows the impact raising cattle has on water resources in the West. Scientists with a project called FEWSION made a detailed map of […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 5: ‘Is My Burger Killing a River?’
  Podcast Does it matter what you eat? When you enjoy a juicy burger or steak are there any environmental consequences of your meal? What if you knew that your beef-eating habits may be directly threatening […]
• Mapping the Nation’s Entire Food, Energy and Water Supply Chain
  Podcast by Robert J. BowmanSupplyChainBrain – June 7, 2019For the first time ever, there’s a publicly available map of the food, energy and water supply chains of every community in the U.S. The online resource […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 4: The Last Mile & the Role of Citizen Scientists
  Podcast FEWSION project data provides an averaging, total picture of your county or city’s food-energy-water supplies. But the important protections afforded by US data privacy laws mean that researchers don’t have access to the supply chain data from the local grocery store to […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 3: The Butterfly Effect
  Podcast Understanding Resilience, Vulnerability and Sustainability in Food-Energy-Water Systems Who do you think has the most sustainable water supply – residents of the mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona – or its vast, desert neighbor of […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 2: What is Local?
  Podcast Episode Two of this podcast series is all about the methodology of how FEWSION’s national data sets are derived. FEWSION project director Ben Ruddell (Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber […]
• Crucial FEWSION Episode 1: Introduction to FEWSION
  Podcast In the first episode of this new podcast series, project director, Ben Ruddell (Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University) describes the aims and scope of […]
• The Food Fix interview with Megan Konar, How investing in infrastructure can make the world less hungry
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• New Project To Map Food, Energy, and Water Systems Nationwide
  KJZZ Link: http://kjzz.org/content/365644/new-project-map-food-energy-and-water-systems-nationwide

Videos

• FEWSION Supply Chain: Science Animated
  Posted December 16, 2021 Check out this video overview of the FEW-View™ mapping tool. PRESS HERE for video transcription Ruddell, B.L., Rushforth, R.R., and Science Animated. (2021).
• AGU TV features the Vulcan and Hestia Projects at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University
  Video feature published by AGU TV (Advancing Earth and Space Science) December 2, 2020. This video describes the Vulcan and Hestia Projects at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. Vulcan […]
• Getting early hurricane supplies imperative during pandemic
  Video WINK NEWSPublished: May 18, 2020Updated: June 2, 2020Reporter: Taylor PetrasWriter: Jack Lowenstein Shelves are wiped out week after week, forcing limits on the number of items you can buy at a time when Southwest […]
• Dr. Sabo testifies to U.S. Senate on Power-Water Issues
  On October 30th, 2019 FEWSION scientist John Sabo of Arizona State University delivered testimony to the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources committee on Power-Water issues in the Western U.S. Webcast HERE Witness Panel 1 […]
• Code Blue: Water Security Conflicts and Solutions: FEWSION, Water, Food, Energy
  FEWSION is building the first complete empirical description of the U.S. food, energy, and water system so that every citizen and policymaker in the U.S. can see where their food, energy, and water come from. […]