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Innovative greenhouse gas detection software to help cities improve air quality

Posted by Heather Tate on February 20, 2020

Kevin Gurney working on his computer in his office. Professor Kevin Gurney of NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems is building a detailed three-dimensional map of the urban Washington, D.C. area that will reveal every source of greenhouse gas being emitted into the atmosphere down to individual buildings, like the Pentagon, and roads such as Pennsylvania Ave. Gurney,… Read more

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

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

NAU astrophysicist leads international team in ‘unprecedented’ discovery of unique infrared light signature on Neptune’s moon Triton

Posted by Heather Tate on July 29, 2019

Image of Triton showing the moon's south polar region.
Voyager 2 image of Triton showing the moon’s south polar region. Credit: NASA/JPL

Triton orbits Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun, some 2.7 billion miles from Earth — at the cold outer fringe of our Solar System’s major planet zone. Surface temperatures hover near absolute zero; so low that common compounds… Read more

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

Excavating a climate report from the past: NAU geology team joins multidisciplinary study to investigate ancient warming event

Posted by Heather Tate on April 16, 2019

Michael Smith working in his labAs the climate changes, extreme weather and flooding are intensifying and occurring more frequently worldwide. Scientists believe that by studying warming events in Earth’s past, they can better understand how the current warming trend is triggering other changes to the environment.

As part of a large, multidisciplinary study involving eight institutions and a… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Protecting future generations: NAU scientists study Arctic community’s exposure to toxic pollutants

Posted by ssc242 on October 17, 2017

St. Lawrence Island, just south of the Bering Strait in Arctic Alaska, is one of the most isolated places on the planet. Wild, mountainous and remote, the island is inhabited by 1,600 indigenous Yupik Eskimos who subsist by hunting and fishing.

Although the island’s natural environment may appear pristine, residents are exposed to high levels of persistent organic pollutants—toxic chemicals that remain in the environment… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Bioengineering Innovation, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

Good news, bad news: NAU study finds fewer meteoroids close to Earth, but likelihood of impact just as great

Posted by Heather Tate on September 5, 2017

David Trilling standing outside of the Discovery Telescope in Happy Jack, AZ.What happens when a meteoroid the size of a house comes too close for comfort? When a 17-meter rock hurled through Earth’s atmosphere in 2013 and exploded mid-air above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, it unleashed a shock wave equivalent to 10 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, shattering windows… Read more

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

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