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NAU team finds US greenhouse gas emissions decline during COVID lockdown 3x greater than previously reported

Posted by Heather Tate on May 3, 2021

Scientists build reliable, real-time emissions estimate system to inform, correct public policy as nation takes on new reduction targets

CO2 emissions illustrationThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and continues to influence emissions as the response to COVID-19 evolves. Reliable data that can provide a real-time update of emissions has been difficult to acquire… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

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… Read more

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

When it comes to global plant production, new study suggests phosphorus matters everywhere

Posted by Heather Tate on March 30, 2020

Challenging long-held assumptions that phosphorus limits aboveground plant growth mainly in tropical regions, a new paper in Nature Communications by NAU authors suggests that this important nutrient actually helps govern plant production in temperate regions, too, and on every continent except Antarctica.


Analyzing data from phosphorus field experiments conducted worldwide between 1955-2017, authors Enqing… Read more

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

NAU planetary scientist recreating icy space conditions to understand the makeup of molecular clouds, the birthplace of stars

Posted by Heather Tate on March 24, 2020

Mark Loeffler and students in the PEAXS lab
NAU planetary scientist Mark Loeffler works with students in his PEAXS (Processes, Environments, and Astrochemistry on Extraterrestrial Surfaces) Research Laboratory.

Icy gas clouds found in deep space between stars are believed to be the birthplace of planets and solar systems. Scientists want to know what these clouds are made… Read more

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

Fallowing cattle-feed farmland simplest way to alleviate western water shortage, FEWSION-based study finds

Posted by Heather Tate on March 2, 2020

Depletion of river flow across the US during summer months. The 17 western states experience much higher levels of depletion during July to September than eastern states, owing to lesser precipitation and greater use of irrigation in the western states. a, Summer depletion during the 2001–2015 model simulation. b, Summer depletion in the… Read more

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

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… Read more

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

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