Congrats to one of our fantastic graduating seniors for Fall 2021, Maree Mahkewa! Maree is one of two NAU undergraduates receiving the NAU President’s Prize this semester and was profiled in a fantastic AZ Daily Sun article where you can read all about her and the organizations she contributes to, including her family’s organization, Tutskwa Öqöltoynani, and the Hopi… Read more
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A very close friend and colleague: In memory of Dr. Paul Umhoefer
Northern Arizona University has lost the cornerstone of its School of Earth and Sustainability, a colleague valued across Flagstaff’s science community and an internationally respected geoscientist, Professor Paul Umhoefer. Paul was our colleague at NAU for 30 years, making an outsized impact in his profession, at NAU, and with his many, many students, associates, and other friends.
After a successful… Read more
Catch an interview with Dr. Denielle Perry
Catch our own Dr. Perry on the Talk + Water podcast! Dr. Denielle Perry is a water resource geographer and Assistant Professor in SES, and one of the leaders of the River Field Studies Network, a community of practice that aims to advance undergraduate biology education and support healthy river ecosystems through inclusive, immersive, interdisciplinary field-based education.
Congrats to ESP alum Ethan Aumack!
Ethan Aumack (MS Environmental Science and Policy, 2003) was recently honored with the President’s Alumni Award for the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences at a ceremony hosted by… Read more
NAU’s Darrell Kaufman lead author on IPCC global climate change report
Climate Change 2021: Physical Science Basis, just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is in the news a lot these days. Head over to NAU News to learn more from SES Regents’ Professor Darrell Kaufman, who was a lead author on the report involving 200 scientists from 66 countries.
NAU researchers lead new $2 million grant for virtual teaching about climate change
Scientists 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 (NSF) to develop a virtual reality teaching tool called Polar Explorer. Dr. Deborah Huntzinger in the School of Earth and Sustainability is one of… Read more