PhD student Natalie Jones has been awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant to the tune of $135,000 over the next three years. Her project is titled “Quantifying physical biosignatures: estimating the effect of EPS on fluvial sediment transport processes”. In short, the proposed work combines experimental fluvial…
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Natalie Jones aims to understand water sources in the Grand Canyon
Two recent articles describe PhD student Natalie Jones’s important work as a research technician with Abe Springer before joining the Planetary Geomorphology research group at NAU. NAU Aspirations: “Boundless connections: At Northern Arizona University, our faculty and students look for answers to some of our most compelling environmental challenges—together.” NAU News: “NAU grad student looking…
Picture a Scientist movie screening and discussion Sept 18-20
Picture a Scientist: MovieAvailable from September 18 at 8:30 p.m. through September 20Request access via https://tinyurl.com/y2mk3jugNAU’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science proudly presents a movie that chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Picture a Scientist: Panel DiscussionSeptember 20 at 4 p.m. at Festival website (live): Scifest.orgA…
Anthony Maue awarded FINESST
Anthony has won a 2-year grant from NASA’s Future Investigators in Earth and Space Science and Technologies (FINESST) program. His project, titled, “Seeking Sediment Signals in SAR: Enhancing Interpretations of Cassini Radar for Titan,” will study radar-bright terrains around Death Valley, CA to develop an improved framework for interpreting attributes of radar-bright sedimentary deposits on…
Two new departments and two new hires at NAU
In August 2019, the Department of Physics and Astronomy split into the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science. The Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences has taken on two new professors, Devon Burr and Josh Emery, and has ambitious plans to continue expanding and revamping its…