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Research Grants
New NSF grant for restoring the culturally important Emory oak
Led by Assistant Professor Dr. Sara Souther, a new $1.5 million NSF grant will focus on research with multiple Tribal nations to restore Emory oak ecosystems across Arizona. The five-year project “DISES: Restoration of a southwestern cultural keystone species: Integrating socio‐ecological systems to predict resilience of traditional acorn harvest by western Apache communities” also involves SES Co-PIs Clare Aslan and Diana Stuart, along with faculty from Biological Sciences and… Read more
New grant RaMPs up climate change research and careers with Indigenous perspectives
A new $3 million NSF grant will support recent graduates seeking research opportunities and career training in Southwest climate adaptation. Primarily from Indigenous and Hispanic/Latine backgrounds, fellows will work on a research project co-developed with Tribal communities, as well as engaging in mentoring, networking, and career development activities. The grant is co-awarded to NAU (the Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes) and Navajo Technical University (Environmental Science and Natural Resources). At… Read more
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 the… Read more
SES PhD student awarded Mineralogical Society of America research grant
PhD student Eva Baransky (Earth & Environmental Science) is one of two awardees nationwide of a Mineralogical Society of America Research Grant. Baransky applied for the grant in order to study what controls the amount of nickel dissolved in the world’s oceans. Nickel is an essential trace metal nutrient for organisms from the bottom to the top of the marine food chain, but we do not yet know what governs its… Read more
Congrats to two SES students awarded NSF GRFPs!
Two of our Master’s students in Environmental Sciences and Policy, Ethan Taber and Jessica Archibald, were both recently awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! This means 3 years of full support to carry them on into PhD programs at NAU (we hope!) or elsewhere. This is one of the most substantial and prestigious awards a graduate researcher in the US can earn, and Jessica and… Read more