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A bridge to stronger, more diverse Earth sciences

A bridge to stronger, more diverse Earth sciences

by ecos | Apr 29, 2022 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) at NAU has been named one of 15 new partner institutions of the AGU Bridge Program, which works to support students in applying to and succeeding in graduate school in the Earth sciences. Ecoss and the other new...
Decoding biological mysteries with algae: NAU team wins $3M from NSF to model microbiome

Decoding biological mysteries with algae: NAU team wins $3M from NSF to model microbiome

by ecos | Nov 18, 2021 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

The tiny cosmos of organisms living on a streamer of algae in a river—the algal microbiome—could help scientists learn what turns an environment from healthy to toxic and back again. A multidisciplinary team led by Northern Arizona University has won $3 million from...
Relevant, dead, or both?: Team wins $15M from Department of Energy to study how microbes’ traits are linked to carbon storage

Relevant, dead, or both?: Team wins $15M from Department of Energy to study how microbes’ traits are linked to carbon storage

by ecos | Oct 1, 2021 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

Do dead microbes control the future of Earth’s climate? A team of researchers led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) suspects they might. Using new tools, the team can see which soil organisms are thriving and which are dying in California’s changing...
What the future looks like: NAU student creates tool to make modeling easier for ecologists

What the future looks like: NAU student creates tool to make modeling easier for ecologists

by ecos | Sep 20, 2021 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

Xin Huang wants to make modeling and using big data easier for everyone, especially ecologists who don’t have extensive computer programming experience. As a third-year doctoral student in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University,...
Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20 to 30 years, new NAU study finds

Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20 to 30 years, new NAU study finds

by ecos | Jan 13, 2021 | By Kate Petersen, Featured, News & Events, Uncategorized

Earth’s ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming, according to a new study in Science Advances by researchers at Northern Arizona University (NAU) and...
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...
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