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Team awarded $2M NSF grant to teach virtual explorers about permafrost and Arctic climate change

Posted by Heather Tate on July 19, 2021

Arctic illustrationScientists at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder have been awarded almost $2 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a virtual reality teaching tool called Polar Explorer. In this… Read more

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

New $764K award from Dept. of Energy will help better predict fate of permafrost carbon

Posted by Heather Tate on

Christina Schaedel working on a computer As the Arctic endures another summer of record-breaking surface air temperatures, a team from NAU, led by Ecoss’ assistant research professor Christina Schädel, has been awarded a three-year, $764,000 grant from the Department of Energy to help improve models that predict what will happen to permafrost carbon as the Arctic continues to warm. The team, which includes Ecoss Regent’s Professor Ted Schuur, School of… Read more

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

New NAU study measures long-term carbon loss from thawing permafrost in Alaska

Posted by Heather Tate on May 6, 2021

Ted Schuur workin in labNew long-term data from a permafrost monitoring site in Healy, Alaska, suggest it was a net carbon source to the atmosphere at least since 2004 and, under current climate conditions as the region grows warmer, will continue to be one, potentially losing up to a fifth of all carbon stored… Read more

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

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… Read more

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

NAU scientists help chart a path to understand how Arctic vegetation is changing

Posted by Heather Tate on January 31, 2020

Scott Goetz
Professor Scott Goetz and assistant research professor Logan Berner (not pictured) are involved in an effort that brings together remote sensing scientists and field ecologists to provide a better understanding of how vegetation is changing across the Arctic

As Arctic tundra has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

The frozen world and oceans at risk, says new UN special report co-authored by NAU researchers

Posted by Heather Tate on September 26, 2019

Sept. 25, 2019

The world’s oceans are getting hotter and acidifying under climate change at unprecedented rates, threatening coastal and high-mountain communities, marine ecosystems and global fishing stocks, according to a new Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Ted Schuur, a researcher in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) at Northern Arizona University, was one of the lead authors on the… 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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