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Ecoss presents at virtual #AGU2020

Ecoss presents at virtual #AGU2020

by ecos | Dec 7, 2020 | By Kate Petersen, News & Events, Uncategorized

Many Ecoss researchers are presenting at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union taking place online Dec 1-17. Everyone who is registered for the meeting can join live online Q&As or view sessions and posters at anytime. Check out this...
Twenty universities, colleges convene to share best practices on “bumpy road” to carbon neutrality

Twenty universities, colleges convene to share best practices on “bumpy road” to carbon neutrality

by ecos | Nov 13, 2020 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

In a year in which global temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide records were broken, experts from 20 colleges and universities will gather virtually November 17-19, 2020 at Northern Arizona University to discuss why carbon reduction is critical to their...
Changing the climate conversation in Arizona

Changing the climate conversation in Arizona

by ecos | Nov 8, 2019 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events

NAU joins with ASU, UA and Arizona communities to confront climate crisis As Arizona confronts the impacts of a hotter world, Northern Arizona University is joining partners from Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and communities from throughout the...
High-Tech Tree tells Climate Stories Online – led by Ecoss Researchers

High-Tech Tree tells Climate Stories Online – led by Ecoss Researchers

by ecos | Oct 30, 2019 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events

Wired red oak is first of its kind in North America. As trees across the U.S. continue their picturesque march toward autumn, one 100-year-old oak tree in Massachusetts is attracting a crowd of admirers online. The tree is a scientific wonder—not because of its unique...
Ecoss researchers co-authored IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Changing Cryosphere

Ecoss researchers co-authored IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Changing Cryosphere

by ecos | Sep 25, 2019 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events

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...
Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores

Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores

by ecos | Aug 21, 2019 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events

Pools of old carbon in the soil of boreal forests historically safe from combustion are being released by more frequent and larger wildfires, an Ecoss team led by Xanthe Walker and Michelle Mack announced in Nature this week. As the climate of these forests in the...
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