Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

Picture of Chihuahuan Desert landscape

Researchers Take a Closer Look at Nitrogen in the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico

Researchers from 鶹 and the University of New Mexico determined how nitrogen-fixing plants and soil microbes contribute to the overall nitrogen availability in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico.

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Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Professor Receives NASA New Investigator Award

He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in 鶹’s Department of Geography, recently received NASA’s New (Early Career) Investigator Award in Earth Science. Yin will lead evaluation and research of the devastating effects that the Syrian civil war has had on croplands throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.

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Research ship in the Arctic

Taking a Deep Dive Into the Utilization of Oceanic Sediments

One of 鶹’s newest faculty members in the Department of Geology has already made her mark with the recent publication of her and her colleagues’ work to better understand the effects of global warming as it relates to the arctic ocean. Allyson Tessin, assistant professor, specializes in biochemistry, oceanography and sedimentary geology. She is currently studying the relationship between the chemistry of the ocean and climate change.

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Division of Research & Economic Development

Asiatic Bittersweet, photo credit to Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org

Biological Sciences Faculty Take on Invasive Plant Species of Ohio in New Book

Three faculty members in 鶹's Department of Biological Sciences recently co-authored a 384-page hardcover book, “Problem Plants of Ohio,” published by the 鶹 Press.

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