by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, NAU, Universities
Professor Loren Buck, environmental physiologist and associate director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation (CBI), is leading a new project that has the potential to change nothing less than the way scientists understand life on...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU, Universities
A new paper by Northern Arizona University professor Andrew Richardson published in the journal Scientific Data describes a vast network of digital cameras designed to capture millions of images documenting seasonal changes of vegetation across North America. The...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU
A pilot project has the potential to unlock a critical bottleneck in forest restoration and wildfire prevention efforts across northern Arizona by creating markets for restoration byproducts like wood chips from small-diameter trees. The pilot project, led by...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
In November 2017, a team of scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward a comet-like object known as ’Oumuamua—the first interstellar body ever found in our solar system—but the object proved too faint for the infrared telescope to detect. Though...
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | A Better World, Innovations, NAU
In anticipation of sending humans to Mars by 2033, NASA scientists are searching for suitable locations to land on the Red Planet. Ideally, these potential landing sites would have high scientific value for exploration while offering natural resources to sustain human...
by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Innovations, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
Scientists are creating ways to compile and interpret an abundance of high-resolution satellite images on a continental scale to better understand Antarctica, Arizona and the world. The same sophisticated satellite imaging techniques being developed to map and...
