Catalyzing interdisciplinary collaboration
Research
The Woods Institute for the Environment serves as the primary hub for interdisciplinary research about the environment at Stanford. We catalyze knowledge and solutions through competitive funding as well as targeted research centers, programs and initiatives that foster collaboration across disciplines and sectors.
Woods-funded teams are pursuing discoveries essential to 1) Advancing resilience to the changing climate; 2) Supporting and improving planetary health and 3) Sustaining thriving ecosystems on land and in the ocean. Explore our focal areas, publications and more below.
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Funding Opportunities
Research News and Features
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The chronic disease schistosomiasis wreaks havoc on more than 220 million people around the world. New research shows how introducing fish into rice fields could help reduce disease incidence and poverty in a hot spot for the disease
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A Stanford team used geospatial data and detection algorithms to achieve a tenfold increase in rescues from modern slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. Now they’re planning to expand their approach.
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Brief pulses of electrical current can dramatically extend the lives of sea squirts, whose rapid stem cell regeneration and simple immune systems make them a useful analog for understanding aging in humans. The findings point toward new strategies for protecting species from environmental shifts, and mitigating age-related decline.
Featured Publications
