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Center for Ecosystem Science and Society

Climate and biodiversity matter to how drylands fare under higher grazing pressure

Posted by Eliza Romero on November 28, 2022

Illustration of Ecosystem Service Delivery

Drylands make up nearly half the Earth’s land surface, and the effects of grazing livestock on their ability to support people, plants and animals is a key question as the global climate changes and warms. A new international study published in Science is the first to measure how grazing… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences

Helping humanity through climate research

Posted by Eliza Romero on November 2, 2022

Image of Earth in a field with tall grass and sand

Several NAU professors are part of a global team of climate scientists recently recognized for their service to humanity.

In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was awarded the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. The IPCC, a body of the United Nations that won… 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

Future emissions from ‘country of permafrost’ significant, must be factored into global climate targets

Posted by Eliza Romero on October 17, 2022

Infographic of earth with rising levels of C02 depicted

By the end of this century, permafrost in the rapidly warming Arctic will likely emit as much carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere as a large industrial nation, and potentially more than the U.S. has emitted since the start of the industrial revolution.  

But that’s only… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

A microbial universe in soil and a beetle’s gut

Posted by Eliza Romero on October 4, 2022

Man writing in book with microscope and glass with dirt and grass

Read this story in Spanish here.

Researcher Javier Ceja-Navarro has been a science communicator since he was a child. 

“I have one younger brother, and to him, I was the encyclopedia,” said Ceja-Navarro, a professor of microbiology in the Department of Biological Sciences… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

2022 Flagstaff Festival of Science features NAU scientists, artists and educators, Sept. 23-Oct. 2

Posted by Heather Tate on September 6, 2022

More than 100 free family-friendly events focus on ancient cultures, the environment and more

Flagstaff Festival of Science scheduleThe 2022 Festival of Science, a Flagstaff tradition since 1990, kicks off on Friday, Sept. 23, bringing more than 100 free, family-friendly events to the community—many of them highlighting Northern Arizona University faculty and staff as presenters, lecturers and hosts.

This year’s Festival theme is “Pyramids… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Flagstaff Festival of Science, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

Funded through an NIH R21 grant, NAU scientists combine PMI and Ecoss expertise to explore the role of gut microbiota in Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by Heather Tate on April 1, 2022

Multidisciplinary team will apply quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP), a technology widely used in environmental microbiome sciences

Emily Cope working in the PMI lab

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 6.2 million Americans are living with this progressive neurologic disorder, and it is the sixth-leading… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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