CURes partners organization, Friends of Ballona Wetlands, was recently mentioned as the Ballona Wetlands Freshwater Marsh made the 2015 LA Magazine’s “Best of LA, 83 of our Favorite Things” list. … Read more

Dr. Eric Strauss, CURes Executive Director and President’s Professor of Biology at LMU, was quoted in the following New York Times article: As Americans Figure Out the Roundabout, It Spreads … Read more

This series of blog posts chronicles the summer course that CURes offers for LMU students in Costa Rica called “Tropical Science and Culture in Costa Rica.” We teach this interdisciplinary overview of … Read more

Playa del Rey, California (Tuesday, July 28, 2015) – On a sunny Saturday in coastal Los Angeles County’s Ballona Wetlands, flurries of tiny, blue butterflies were out and about dazzling … Read more

Dr. John Dorsey, Director of Urban Ecology Research at CURes and Professor of  Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at LMU, was featured in the following Topanga Messenger article: “Malibu Lagoon Report Shows … Read more

This series of blog posts chronicles the summer course that CURes offers for LMU students in Costa Rica called “Tropical Science and Culture in Costa Rica.” We teach this interdisciplinary overview of … Read more

Community based monitoring (CBM) is “a process where concerned citizens, government agencies, industry, academia, community groups, and local institutions collaborate to monitor, track, and respond to issues of common community … Read more

This series of blog posts chronicles the summer course that CURes offers for LMU students in Costa Rica called “Tropical Science and Culture in Costa Rica.” We teach this interdisciplinary overview of … Read more

Laurel Hunt, Director of CURes’ global climate change network, the Mediterranean City Climate Change Consortium (MC-4),  was featured in an article published by LMU’s Seaver College of Science and Engineering:  LMU … Read more

Water is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe.  It covers 70% of our planet’s surface and accounts for about two thirds of every individual’s body weight.  While … Read more

On June 2, 2015, Loyola Law School Professor Scott Wood received the Bert Thompson Pioneer Award from the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice at their national conference in … Read more