Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and NAU President Cruz Rivera closed out this year’s SACNAS conference – an excellent opportunity for students to experience true diversity and inclusion as they consider next steps in their careers! The delegation included SES PhD student Franklyn Telles, who presented his research on climate change, drought, and dust. Frank is incorporating both climate science… Read more
Environmental Sciences and Policy alum Katie Guetz was recently awarded the Ecological Society of America’s Early Career Publication Award in the Restoration category. Katie’s paper, entitled “Prioritizing dams for removal to advance restoration and conservation efforts in the western United States” was published last year in Restoration Ecology, along with her MS advisor Dr. Denielle Perry of the Free-flowing Rivers Lab and two other SES faculty, Dr. Taylor Joyal and Dr. Brett Dickson. You can read it
Our Environmental Science and Climate Change degrees are ranked in the top 20 nationally in GIZMODO’s “Degrees of the Future 2022.”
Check out our Undergraduate degrees in Environmental Sciences (you can choose a Climate Science emphasis!), or our Graduate degrees in Climate Science and Solutions, Environmental Sciences and Policy, or Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability.
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SES Geology Masters students Sarah Zurkee and Katelyn LaPine are using springs as indicators of climate change and sustainability. Read about their research at the AZ Mirror, or follow them and their advisor Dr. Abe Springer out to the field in this Cronkite News video!
Congratulations to Dr. Nick McKay for receiving the American Quaternary Association’s Eric Grimm Award for Excellence in Open Science and Data Stewardship. This new award recognizes an outstanding scientist with demonstrated excellence in research and an exemplary commitment to advancing open science.
Climate Change 2021: Physical Science Basis, just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is in the news a lot these days. Head over to NAU News to learn more from SES Regents’ Professor Darrell Kaufman, who was a lead author on the report involving 200 scientists from 66 countries.