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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… Read more

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

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

NAU team receives $2.6 million grant to train, mentor Native American students in STEM disciplines

Posted by Heather Tate on June 27, 2018

Catherine Propper discussing a research poster with a student

Native Americans have the lowest rate of university enrollment and graduation rates of any group in the United States—and in STEM fields, they represent only 0.5 percent of students nationwide. Another major hurdle for Native American populations is health-related. Those living on tribal lands experience a disproportionate rate of environmentally-associated health issues such as… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Health Sciences, RISE, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, STEM

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

Posted by Heather Tate 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… Read more

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

NAU scientists urge further study of ‘the beasts in all of us’—colonizing opportunistic pathogens

Posted by Heather Tate on August 10, 2017

A new paper published in PLOS Pathogens by a team of researchers comprised of Bruce Hungate and Ben Koch from Northern Arizona University; Lance Price from George Washington University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute; and Gregg Davis and Cindy Liu from George Washington University outlines the critical need for further research into the nature of colonizing opportunistic pathogens, or… 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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