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Scientists partner with Indigenous communities to study effects of climate change and human development on Arctic caribou

Posted by Heather Tate on October 11, 2021

Project will help train the next generation of Arctic scientists in wildlife ecology, environmental informatics, natural resource management and social science

Logan Berner doing research in the field Wild caribou are the single most important land-based species for both human communities and ecosystems in the Arctic. Abundant across the polar region, these animals play an essential role both as herbivores that impact tundra vegetation and as an important source of food to… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

PhD students first in NAU history to receive prestigious DOE awards

Posted by Heather Tate on October 6, 2021

Program prepares students for STEM careers critically important to DOE mission

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science logoGraduate students Maria Bolar and Megan Foley are the first from Northern Arizona University to receive awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. Only 65 graduate students from across the country were recognized this year. Through world-class training and access to state-of-the-art… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications - ¡MIRA!, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

What the future looks like: NAU student creates tool to make modeling easier for ecologists

Posted by Heather Tate on September 21, 2021

Xin Huang wants to make modeling and using big data easier for everyone, especially ecologists who don’t have extensive computer programming experience. As a third-year doctoral student in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University, Huang saw a technical barrier between the earth system modeling community and ecologists who want to improve models with data: coding.

That’s why she created a user interface called “MIDA”—model-independent data assimilation—which allows a scientist to improve a model with data without… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU sponsors 2021 Flagstaff Festival of Science Sept. 17-26, featuring 100 free family-friendly events

Posted by Heather Tate on September 10, 2021

Jaime Awe in his labArchaeologist Jaime Awe kicks off 10-day community festival; other events highlight NAU scientists, artists and educators

Locally known as “The Best 10 Days of the Year,” the Festival of Science continues to be a cornerstone event for the Flagstaff community, with Northern Arizona University playing a key role in the festival’s success.

Now in its 32nd… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Flagstaff Festival of Science

Prestigious NSF CAREER award supports integration of research, undergraduate training in parallel computing

Posted by Heather Tate on August 16, 2021

Michael Gowanlock sitting in front of a computer. Computer scientist and astroinformaticist Mike Gowanlock, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, was recently awarded a $411,964 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will support Gowanlock’s research in the emerging field of parallel computing architectures needed to process large volumes of data generated by major astronomical surveys, including the Legacy… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU’s Kaufman lead author on IPCC global climate change report

Posted by Heather Tate on August 9, 2021

Team of NAU paleoclimatologists contribute to major report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forming scientific underpinnings for negotiations to limit carbon emissions worldwide

Darrell Kaufman in lab
NAU Regents’ Professor Darrell Kaufman examines a lake sediment core he and his students recently collected from central Alaska.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) has just released its latest major assessment report on global climate change, approved by the world’s… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Earth and Sustainability, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

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