Dr. David Elliott’s work on fossils of heterostracan fish is featured for National Fossil Day, and on display at National Parks!
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Grant to analyze effects of forest thinning on snowmelt using remote sensing
Professors Teki Sankey and Abe Springer received a new grant from the The Nature Conservancy to study how reduced canopy closure following thinning of ponderosa pine forests affects snow infiltration. Read all about it at NAU News.
Clare Aslan a Flinn-Brown Fellow
Assistant Professor Clare Aslan, a conservation ecologist in the School, was named a Flinn-Brown fellow for this year’s cohort. Aslan joins 32 others from all over the state to share and learn leadership strategies across all sectors. Congrats Clare!
Ecosystems recover more slowly from droughts
Dr. Christopher Schwalm talks to KNAU about his team’s recent research on the frequency, intensity, and recovery from drought over the last 100 years.
The first thing we found out is what drives recovery time after drought is very much linked to global warming
Seismic signals of nuclear testing
When North Korea tested a nuclear weapon last September, NAU scientists picked up the signal just north of Flagstaff. Dr. Ryan Porter explains to NAU News.
Accelerating discovery in paleoclimate science
Read the guest blog by Professor Darrell Kaufman at Nature.com.
I contend, however, that there’s more scientific ingenuity to a well-crafted ‘data compilation’ and more coordination behind a ‘community endorsed’ data product than meets the eye.