Heather Throop
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Phone: 480-727-2617
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777 East University Drive Tempe, AZ 85287-2404
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Mail code: 6004Campus: Tempe
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Heather Throop is an ecosystem scientist who studies how global-scale changes influence arid and semi-arid ecosystems. She has a joint appointment in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Life Sciences at ASU.
Professor Throop studies how carbon and nutrients cycle through plants, soils, and the atmosphere. Much of her work addresses how these cycles respond to human-caused changes in the environment, such as climate change and changing human land use.
Her work is primarily based in arid and semi-arid environments. These 'drylands' contain a large and rapidly increasing portion of the world's human population, particularly in developing nations where human livelihoods are often tightly linked to sustainable use of drylands. Throop's current projects includes work in dryland sites in the western US and Namibia.
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona
- Ph.D. Stony Brook University
- B.A. Carleton College
Heather Throop studies how carbon and nutrients cycle through plants, soils, and the atmosphere. Much of her work addresses how these cycles respond to human-caused changes in the environment, such as climate change and changing human land use. Throop's work is primarily based in arid and semi-arid environments. These 'drylands' contain a large and rapidly increasing portion of the world's human population, particularly in developing nations where human livelihoods are often tightly linked to sustainable use of drylands. Throop's current projects includes work in drylands sites in the western US and Namibia.
Courses
2026 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SES 220 | Biology of a Changing Earth |
| SES 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SES 792 | Research |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| SES 494 | Special Topics |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 220 | Biology of a Changing Earth |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SES 692 | Research |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 591 | Seminar |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 220 | Biology of a Changing Earth |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 591 | Seminar |
| SES 494 | Special Topics |
| SES 591 | Seminar |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| BIO 410 | Techniques ConservationBio&Eco |
| GLG 495 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| SES 494 | Special Topics |
| SES 591 | Seminar |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 591 | Seminar |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SES 220 | Biology of a Changing Earth |
| SES 591 | Seminar |
| SES 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 591 | Seminar |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| SES 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SES 799 | Dissertation |
| SES 692 | Research |
| SES 792 | Research |
| SES 492 | Honors Directed Study |