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NAU announces new school (that's us!) for green curriculum.

Professor Darrell Kaufman's climate change study places recent warming in context with long-term change.

Professor Nancy Johnson's cutting-edge research aims to understand relationships between fungi and soils. 

The School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability envisions becoming "the premier school for research, outreach and education in earth sciences and environmental sustainability in the Mountain West for local to global communities."

Doris Duke Foundation targets NAU students to protect environment: read the full article in InsideNAU.

CSE is one of the sponsers for Braiding Through Water, a conference weaving western and traditional sciences and knowledge. 

CSE intern DeJa Walker reinvigorates local food traditions uniting traditional culinary knowledge and ecology:  RAFT

CSE graduate students Carrie Cultra and Jessica Gist were selected as Wyss Scholars.  Read more in the article, "Students take on environmental issues with scholarship help" in the March 4, 2009 edition of InsideNAU.

Inspired by the Land is a feature article on CSE Professor Diana Anderson published in "Winds of Change" (wocmag.org).

Western Landscape Conservation: Policies for a Sustainable West presents an integrated set of recommendations, focusing on specific steps that, together, would foster collaborative approaches for addressing emerging issues, such as water shortages, increasingly destructive wildfire, and disagreement over public lands management, all unfolding in an era of climate change. The recommendations were directed towards providing guidance for the next federal administration, and synthesized by CSE graduate students from the lectures and workshops on Western landscape conservation in Spring 2008. 

The National Teach-In on Climate Change Solutions at NAU is an all-day event February 5th, 2009 in the du Bois Ballroom at NAU featuring NAU President John Haeger as Key-Note speaker!