Aaron Lien

Adaptation Programs/Projects

• Climate change Adaptation and Mitigation through Biodiversity Informatics edUcation and Mentoring (CAMBIUM)
• Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Wildfire-Resilient Ecosystems and Communities in the Southwest United States: An Early Warning System
• Leadership and support in the development, analysis, modeling, assessment, and other CEAP-GL activities for better informed conservation decisions, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Employment Highlights

• Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by Faculty, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona (2025)
• Member, Science Advisory Board, Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
• Member, Steering Committee for Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Treatment and Habitat Enhancement Initiative
• Member, Arizona Science Policy Fellows Grant Advisory Committee

Selected Publications

• Young, KE, AM Lien, J Carvalho de Souza Dias, K Hovanes, E Gornish. 2025. Drivers of weed control implementation and challenges based on stakeholder perspectives from Arizona and Utah. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2025.10.001
• Feng, X, S Smith, B Boyle, X Chen, B Enquist, RV Gallagher, J Hammock, J Ho, AM Lien, B Maitner, E Sokol, P Soltis, E Wenk, A Willoughby, D Park. 2025. The next stage of biodiversity informatics: community-driven synthesis and integration of biodiversity databases. BioScience, 75(11). https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf112
• Stava, A, WE Thogmartin, R Merideth, S Bethard, F Currim, JJ Derbridge, K Emerson, E Laparra, AM Lien, E McGovern, J Pidot, M Miller, K Romero-Cardenas, B Smith, C Winnebald, L Lopez-Hoffman. 2025. Quantifying the substantive influence of public comment on US federal environmental decisions under NEPA. Environmental Research Letters, 20 074028. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/addee5
• Cheng, H, E Baldwin, A Ponce, AM Lien, A Henry, E Gornish, J Soto. 2025. Wildfire evacuations prompt increased support for wildfire mitigation policies in Pima County, Arizona. Society and Natural Resources, 38(8). https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2025.2475503
• Hovanes, KA, ES Gornish, S Thies, E Baldwin, LQR Ossanna, EG Dosamantes, AM Lien. 2025. Hot child in the city: drivers of urban buffelgrass presence in Tucson, AZ. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13297