SES Assistant Professor Rachel Mitchell and her PhD student Ethan Taber gave a great interview this morning on KNAU about their work studying ecosystem recovery from wildfire. You can listen here!
Student News
SES PhD student working with hunters to save California Condors
CBS news recently profiled SES PhD student Chris Parish, who leads California Condor conservation efforts for The Peregrine Fund. While a graduate student, Chris established a non-profit organization working with hunters to voluntarily reduce the use of lead ammunition, a major source of morbidity in condors that affects wildlife everywhere. Check out the news broadcast here!
Environmental Sciences student Mariah Letowt shares her research on the language of birds
This week’s edition of NAU News has a great feature on Mariah Letowt’s outstanding research accomplishments as an undergrad at NAU – from multiple projects on birds and mice to a Gold Axe award! Next up – Mariah is off to work with eagles in Haines, Alaska. All the best with your future research!
SES PhD student leads paleoclimate study of precipitation and sea ice in Arctic Alaska
Ellie Broadman is the lead author on a new paper linking sea ice and climate records in the arctic. “Coupled impacts of sea ice variability and North Pacific atmospheric circulation on Holocene hydroclimate in Arctic Alaska,” was recently published in It’s all about water
NAU’s 4th Annual Student Water Symposium is now accepting abstracts for this year’s virtual event to be held April 15-16.
Geology alum shows the importance of groundwater to the Colorado River
SES alum Riley Swanson and Dr. Abe Springer have a new paper out in Hydrogeology Journal showing that the Colorado River gets an important part of its flow from groundwater that flows into the river from springs in the Grand Canyon region. Read more at NAU News.