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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

NAU forest geneticist awarded $810,000 grant to study how climate change affects the ability of sugar pines to fight disease

Posted by Heather Tate on August 12, 2020

Amanda de la Torre working in labFor about 100 years, a deadly disease called white pine blister rust has been spreading steadily from Canada across western forests of the United States and along the East Coast. The fungus, Cronartium ribicola, attacks five-needle pines and kills more than 95 percent of the trees it infects by cutting off pathways for water and nutrients in the cambium layer, where new growth occurs.

The U.S.… Read more

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

Open-source radiotelemetry technology from NAU team has potential to revolutionize wildlife research

Posted by Heather Tate on October 1, 2019

Drone flying in the airBiologists and ecologists monitor wildlife to learn more about their behaviors, but tracking small creatures can be challenging, time-consuming and costly. Through a National Science Foundation grant, a multidisciplinary team at Northern Arizona University—led by Michael Shafer, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Carol Chambers, professor of wildlife ecology; and Paul Flikkema, professor of electrical engineering—has developed… Read more

Filed Under: Bat Ecology and Genetics Lab, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Forestry, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU scientist maps CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

Posted by Heather Tate on August 26, 2019

Kevin Gurney working on his computer.As the threat of global warming grows—and with it, the specter of more extreme conditions such as wildfires, droughts and tropical storms—cities across the U.S. are developing policies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide (CO2). Even though many local governments are committed to these goals, however, the emissions data they have… Read more

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

How do new traits emerge? NAU researcher working to answer one of evolutionary biology’s most challenging questions

Posted by Heather Tate on July 11, 2019

Liza Holeski in the NAU Greenhouse holding a yellow monkey flower Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over how new traits emerge in nature, largely because much of the evolutionary information available is from the distant past. To learn more about how genes influence evolution, these researchers study organism phenotypes—the observable characteristics of an organism that are influenced by genetics and… Read more

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

There will be an app for that: NAU scientists researching intermittent streams with smartphone technology

Posted by Heather Tate on August 22, 2018

Ben Ruddell sitting in front of a computer.

As collaborators on one of the first coordinated ecology research projects to study what happens to streams as they dry across the United States, Northern Arizona University researchers Ben Ruddell and Abe Springer will develop an improved smartphone application for mapping wet and dry reaches of streams.

Based on lessons learned from phone apps developed to map the desert springs… Read more

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

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