Join ECOSS and gain career ready skills! The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) provides valuable undergraduate experiences in ecosystems and climate ecology. Currently there are three avenues to work with ECOSS as an undergraduate student: student worker positions in the Laboratory or field, The ECOSS mentoring program, and […]
ESSTE: A new undergraduate program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ESSTE is a unique, 3-semester internship and mentorship opportunity for undergraduate students to help prepare the next generation to address the challenge of increasing drought, fires, and floods. Background The Southwest is facing tremendous environmental challenges as a […]
Director, Reforest America Carbon Program– Based in Washington DC, Hybrid American Forests Due by May 6, 2024 ECOSS Administrative Assistant– Based in Flagstaff, Arizona ECOSS Due by April 19, 2024 Senior Manager, Tribal and Indigenous Partnerships– Based in Washington, DC. American Forests Due by May 6, 2024 Senior Manager, Carbon […]
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has partnered with NAU to implement its Bridge Program. The goal is to increase the number of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups obtaining graduate degrees in the geosciences. As partners with AGU’s bridge program, NAU faculty help to fulfill this goal by demonstrating […]
ESSTE es una experiencia de tres semestres con oportunidades como pasantías y mentorías para estudiantes de cualquier licenciatura. El programa busca preparar a las próximas generaciones para enfrentarse a desafíos como sequías, incendios e inundaciones. El programa ESSTE fue creado en respuesta a la falta de oportunidades de entrenamiento y […]
Ecological memory stored in a landscape can help an ecosystem recover from disturbances like fire and outbreaks of disease. But what happens when climate warming disrupts that process? How long before ecological memories stored in the warming Arctic are overwritten by new ones, and what does that mean for the […]
Interviewed by STICH Scholar and Ecoss social media specialist Kayla Blair. Meet Natasha Wesely, a second year PhD student in Dr. Andrew Richardson’s lab. Natasha focuses on modeling different major ecosystem processes. One of her projects involves her creating a new soil restoration model to investigate how soil respiration is driven […]
Interviewed by STICH Scholar and Ecoss social media specialist Kayla Blair. Meet Vic Monsaint-Queeney, a PhD candidate in Bruce Hungate’s lab! Here, Vic studies bacteria in the soil on the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, where she looks at the different types of nitrogen that these microbes consume. The research involves […]
Interviewed by STICH Scholar and Ecoss social media specialist Kayla Blair. Meet Jasmine Anenberg, a PhD student in the Bowker lab! This lab’s main job is to learn about and restore soil function to areas that have been degraded, by preventing erosion, stimulating nutrient cycling and productivity, or manipulating water […]
The Carbon Copy is the Ecoss bi-monthly newsletter featuring news, publications, and comment from around the research center. Read past issues: February 2023 November 2022