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NAU astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object; findings lead to reclassification of Centaur as comet

Posted by Heather Tate on October 28, 2020

Panstarrs digital image
This new image of C/2014 OG392 (PANSTARRS) and its extensive coma combines many digital images into a single 7,700 second exposure. The dashed lines are star trails caused by the long exposure. Images captured October 14, 2020 using the Large Monolithic Imager on the 4.3 m Lowell Discovery Telescope.

Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

NAU forest engineer to lead collaborative industry team in creating jobs, developing markets and restoring health to southwestern forests

Posted by Heather Tate on May 19, 2020

Han Sup Han in the forest working on thinning projectAs climate change and drought cause increasingly severe wildfires and degrade forest health throughout the Southwest, researchers at Northern Arizona University’s Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) are working on sustainable solutions that support forest restoration as well as the long-term economic health of the region.

NAU professor Han-Sup Han, ERI director… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Ecological Restoration Institute, School of Forestry

Top Northern Arizona University microbiologist joins COVID-19 Genomics Union to track virus, lead state’s response to pandemic

Posted by Heather Tate on April 8, 2020

Paul Keim working in the PMI lab.Team will use genomic sequencing to track new coronavirus, provide critical data for global biomedical researchers and give Arizona an edge in responding to the pandemic

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University and the Ecology and… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU scientists, national partners win $3.3 million to study microbes’ role in a changing world

Posted by Heather Tate on January 28, 2020

Illustration ofIf the fate of carbon is a test that planet Earth is taking right now, one of the answer keys is likely to be found in soil, where microorganisms—which account for nearly 15 percent of global biomass, by some estimates—eat, store and respire carbon and other nutrients. As Earth warms, how these microbes change the way they live will have potentially big consequences for where the carbon goes.

Now, a team led… Read more

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

Fighting melanoma with zebrafish: NAU scientists in search of a powerful combination of cancer-fighting drugs

Posted by Heather Tate on January 13, 2020

Matt Salanga and student in lab studying zebrafish
NAU assistant professor Matt Salanga (right) and undergraduate student Phillip Kalaniopio observe zebrafish in the lab, which have been engineered to contain human genes known to be associated with cancer

Melanoma is the most lethal type of skin cancer and unusually common in Arizona, where residents are exposed to… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, TGen

The tip of the ICEBERG: NAU planetary scientists developing large-scale ‘imagery-computing superhighway’

Posted by Heather Tate on December 16, 2019

Mark Salvatore and Helen Eifert looking at computers
NAU doctoral student Helen Eifert and assistant professor Mark Salvatore study geologic maps generated through satellite images

Scientists are creating ways to compile and interpret an abundance of high-resolution satellite images on a continental scale to better understand Antarctica, Arizona and the world.

The same sophisticated satellite imaging techniques being developed to map and identify the size and composition of uncharted land… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

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