Assistant professor Chris Doughty and Ph.D. student Andrew Abraham worked with institutions around the world to conduct research on the role megabiota play in our ecosystem, and more importantly, what their dwindling numbers mean for the planet. Read more.
Research
Debates series on Information Theory in Earth Science published in WRR
Water Resources Research has published a “debate” series on the role of information theory in Earth Science, led by Praveen Kumar and Hoshin Gupta. There are five papers in this collection, three of which were co-authored by SICCS’ Ben Ruddell. Serious information theory, modeling, and statistics geeks should consider diving in! Also,… Read more Fallowing cattle-feed farmland simplest way to alleviate western water shortage, FEWSION-based study finds
An important new study published this week in Nature Sustainability finds that irrigated crop production accounts for 86 percent of all water consumed in the western U.S.—and of all the water used on western farms, by far the largest portion goes to cattle-feed crops such as alfalfa and grass hay. To alleviate the severe shortage of water in the… Read more
NAU scientists help chart a path to understand how Arctic vegetation is changing
Professors Scott Goetz and Logan Berner are involved in an effort that brings together a variety of science institutions around the world to look into what the warming planet means for vegetation productivity. Read More
NAU scientist tracks the spread of a dangerous virus throughout Arizona
West Nile Virus—a potentially deadly infection spread by mosquito bites—is now a permanent resident of Arizona, according to a study by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope.
Crystal Hepp, an assistant professor at NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, is the lead author on the study, which analyzed the genetic material of West Nile Virus (WNV) directly from mosquitos collected in Arizona to build out a genomic family… Read more
Taking Flux Puppy for a walk: NAU undergraduate research team develops ecological app for measuring carbon dioxide
May 21, 2019
“Today I am talking the Flux Puppy for a walk at @HarvardForest to measure stem respiration,” NAU postdoctoral researcher Tim Rademacher recently tweeted. With it, a photo of a small white chamber fastened to a tree trunk (think half Dixie cup, half electrode) and hooked at the other end to a handheld tablet sporting a clear, clean graph… Read more