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Three Ways NAU and SRP Are Protecting the Water and Electric Grid in Arizona

Teams from Northern Arizona University and the Salt River Project collaborated on several research projects, including ones aimed at protecting the Salt and Verde River watersheds and ensuring the power grid can handle the increasing number of...
18-Nov-2024 1:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

Launch of Nationwide Map Viewer and Database AIDS Wildfire Planning and Understanding of Treatment Effects

The launch of the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase, known as TWIG, now provides an open-access platform where all federal fuel treatment and wildfire data can be viewed, downloaded and analyzed. This comprehensive data compilation...
14-Nov-2024 6:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Have We Found All the Major Maya Cities? Not Even Close, New Research Suggests

Researchers' analysis of “found” lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya civilization revealed countless settlements that archaeologists never knew about. The study demonstrates, once and for all, that there’s still plenty of...
22-Oct-2024 5:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

NAU Scientist Raises Questions About Al Gore-Founded Global Climate Pollution Database

Kevin Gurney, a professor from NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, found that a global database co-founded by Gore was underestimating greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by an average of 50%.
8-Oct-2024 2:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

How NAU researchers are tackling (and preventing) homelessness in Arizona

Homelessness in Arizona has reached a new crisis point. In 2023, more than 14,000 people were without shelter—a 29% increase since 2020.Help could be on the way, thanks to grant funds that are fueling new research projects based at NAU and...
12-Sep-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Using AI to prevent ruptured brain aneurysms

Bioengineering Ph.D. student Holly Berns won a grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to study how AI and other new technologies can change how aneurysms are discovered and treated. Her project will use AI and machine learning to examine how...
5-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

NAU physicist wins $5M NSF grant to advance research in quantum physics

An NAU physicist is spearheading groundbreaking new quantum physics research, a field with the potential to revolutionize computing, communication, security and sensing on a global scale
29-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

‘Not remarkable’—Researchers take a new look at impacts of 4.2 ka climate event 

Students, alumni and faculty from the School of Earth and Sustainability leveraged the power of big data to take another look at the 4.2 ka event—a historic megadrought thought to have Earth-altering effects. What they found in the data pointed to...
15-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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