Please join us as our students present 5-minute lightning talks about their derived data products using data from NEON, USA-NPN, PhenoCam, FLUXNET, NASA EOS, USGS NWIS, and more. You can find the schedule here. For Zoom information, please contact Katharyn Duffy. Read More.
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NAU researcher making drones smarter, situationally aware and team-oriented with $480,000 NSF grant
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened the door for an unprecedented number of uses for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). Groups of drones now can work together in networks for purposes such as traffic control, smart agriculture, surveillance and security systems, law enforcement, public safety and much more.
However, current drone systems are missing key considerations such as the ability to identify and respond properly to environmental and behavioral factors, says Abolfazl Razi, an assistant professor in the School of Informatics,… Read more
NAU atmospheric scientist maps CO2 emissions for entire U.S. landscape to help improve environmental policymaking
SICCS professor Kevin Gurney published a study earlier this week that details greenhouse gas emissions across the entire U.S. landscape at high space- and time-resolution with details on economic sector, fuel and combustion process. Read More.
Looking to the shadows: NAU researchers turn to trees to determine if multicellular life on exoplanets exist
A team of researchers, which includes professors and graduate students in informatics and astronomy, conducted a study to determine if there is vegetation on planets outside our solar system. The answer might not be so out of this world. Read More.
NAU global change ecologist leads NASA satellite study of rapid greening across Arctic tundra
The international team of researchers, led by assistant research professor Logan Berner, found the region has become greener as warmer air and soil temperatures have led to increased plant growth. Read More.
Summer warming is turning the Arctic greener
A new study shows much of the Arctic tundra biome became greener during recent decades, likely due to rising summer air temperatures stimulating plant growth. Ecoinformatics researchers from SICCS teamed with field ecologists at eight institutions around the world to investigate how, where, and why tundra greenness changed since the 1980s. Drawing on Landsat satellite observations from 1985 to 2016, they found tundra greenness increased at 38% of sampling sites across… Read more