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  • For second consecutive year, NAU ranks in top 200 in NSF research rankings

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For second consecutive year, NAU ranks in top 200 in NSF research rankings

Posted by Heather Tate on February 5, 2021

Faculty researcher and students doing research at wind farm.

Northern Arizona University moved up five spots in the most recent National Science Foundation’s (NSF) national research rankings, moving to No. 191 with a fiscal year 2019 performance of $58.91 million.

Year after year, NAU has risen in these rankings, which takes research expenditures into account. NAU also rose… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU study indicates that U.S. cities underestimate their greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 20 percent on average

Posted by Heather Tate on February 2, 2021

City emissions graphCities have become critical players in reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are causing global climate change. Urban areas produce almost 70 percent of those emissions, and city governments are proposing a variety of policy actions aimed at reducing them. Many cities also produce inventories that detail their greenhouse gas emissions.

Now, professor Kevin Gurney of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems and colleagues… Read more

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

NAU doctoral student leads paleoclimate study of precipitation and sea ice in Arctic Alaska

Posted by Heather Tate on January 25, 2021

Ellie Broadman doing research in the field

Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation patterns in Arctic Alaska, which lies at a climatological crossroads between the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans. Recent studies—most of which… Read more

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

Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest, new study finds

Posted by Heather Tate on October 13, 2020

IllustrationAs climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires in the North American boreal forest, being able to calculate how much carbon each fire burns grows more urgent. New research led by Northern Arizona University and published this week in Nature Climate Change suggests that how much carbon burns depends… 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, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU researchers win $1.3M in NSF grants to study major shifts in carbon storage

Posted by Heather Tate on September 21, 2020

Xanthe Walker in forestTwo researchers at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society have won separate awards totaling $1.3M from the National Science Foundation to better understand where carbon is being stored and released in the terrestrial biosphere. Using different approaches, the two projects aim to better predict carbon storage by plants and soils in critical regions of the globe, and how that storage is being altered by changing climate patterns.… Read more

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

A tale of two understories: how mosses and climate are shaping the fate of nitrogen in the boreal

Posted by Heather Tate on September 4, 2020

Victor Leshyk illustration for New PhytologistMosses and their microbial partners are important players in fertilizing the boreal forests that make up nearly a third of all Earth’s forests. But climate may be changing mosses’ role in how these forests access nutrients, according to a new study led by the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) at Northern Arizona University… Read more

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

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