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  • NAU economist earns NSF grant to study economics of COVID-19 in rural and tourism-dependent communities

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NAU economist earns NSF grant to study economics of COVID-19 in rural and tourism-dependent communities

Posted by Heather Tate on November 4, 2020

Julie Mueller conducting work on a computer in a forestNorthern Arizona University economics professor Julie Mueller is a principal investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at increasing knowledge and solutions around the unique problems pandemics present to rural areas.

Mueller, who has an 80 percent appointment in the Franke College of Business and a 20 percent appointment in the School of Earth and Sustainability, is researching “Build and Broaden:… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, The W. A. Franke College of Business

NAU researcher making drones smarter, situationally aware and team-oriented with $480,000 NSF grant

Posted by Heather Tate on October 29, 2020

Abolfazl Razi in front of a droneRecent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened the door for an unprecedented number of uses for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). Groups of drones now can work together in networks for purposes such as traffic control, smart agriculture, surveillance and security systems, law enforcement, public safety and much more.

However,… Read more

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

NAU astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object; findings lead to reclassification of Centaur as comet

Posted by Heather Tate on October 28, 2020

Panstarrs digital image
This new image of C/2014 OG392 (PANSTARRS) and its extensive coma combines many digital images into a single 7,700 second exposure. The dashed lines are star trails caused by the long exposure. Images captured October 14, 2020 using the Large Monolithic Imager on the 4.3 m Lowell Discovery Telescope.

Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes… Read more

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

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

NAU physicists, materials scientists join ASU in $4 million Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest

Posted by Heather Tate on August 24, 2020

Researchers in Northern Arizona University’s Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications (¡MIRA!) and the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science (APMS) will collaborate in a regional partnership with ASU to solve challenging convergent research problems through nanotechnology-based innovations

MIRA logoFunded through a National Science Foundation grant of more than $4 million, researchers at Northern… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications - ¡MIRA!, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science

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