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Wildlife disease ecologist launches project to help DoD monitor quality of bird habitats on military installations

Posted by Eliza Romero on December 13, 2022

Man and woman standing in field

Metabarcoding and bioinformatics expertise key to technology transfer

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) owns military installations on nearly 27 million acres all over the country—roughly equivalent in size to the State of Virginia—and oversees these lands through a network of natural resource managers. According to the DoD, the program… Read more

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

Plant ecologist awarded NSF grant for restoring the culturally important Emory oak

Posted by Eliza Romero on December 7, 2022

Five-year multidisciplinary initiative focused on tree species critical to Western Apache tribal communities

Souther students
Souther, left, working in an Emory oak grove with students Megan Quinn, Brandee Joe and Timberlee Castillo and with Anna Jackson, a citizen of the Yavapai Apache Nation, center. Credit: Sierra Bryan, KNAU

Assistant professor Sara Souther of Northern… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation, Department of Sociology, School of Earth and Sustainability, School of Forestry, STEM

NAU introduces new certificate to address growing workforce needs in area of climate change mitigation

Posted by Eliza Romero on December 5, 2022

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As climate change increasingly becomes an investment risk for U.S. companies, NAU is introducing a new certificate program for greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting to help working professionals gain the skills needed to address climate change at the corporate or organizational level.

The non-credit certificate program, which is fully online and self-directed, trains students on the… Read more

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

Does a warmer future favor microbial friend or foe? NAU researchers win $3.4M to study interactions in changing soil

Posted by Eliza Romero on

Infographic detailing interactions in changing soil

In 2002, the Odyssey probe discovered evidence of past ice on Mars. The U.S. Congress authorized the Iraq War resolution. The Anaheim Angels won the World Series. And in a meadow 15 miles north of Flagstaff, scientists began to monitor and move small plots of soil along a mountain gradient… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

NAU and Purdue experts apply microbiome research to agricultural science to help increase crop yield

Posted by Heather Tate on April 30, 2020

Greg Caporaso with his soil experimentThe global demand and consumption of agricultural crops is increasing at a rapid pace. According to the 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, global yield needs to increase at an average annual rate of 1.73 percent to sustainably produce food, feed, fiber and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050. In the US, however, agricultural productivity is struggling to… Read more

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

Long-Term Efficacy of Managed Wildfires Focus of New NAU Study

Posted by Heather Tate on April 27, 2020

Spruce treeLand managers are increasingly interested in using lightning-ignited wildfires as a tool to restore forests and reduce fuel loads. But, there is little known about the effectiveness of managing wildfires to meet restoration goals.

For the past several years, ecologists at the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University have been working to better understand ecological outcomes of wildfires managed to achieve resource objectives and conditions under which practitioners can… Read more

Filed Under: Ecological Restoration Institute, School of Forestry

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