Historically, the methods available for measuring phenological changes across ecosystems have been less than ideal

Christopher Edwards, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, along with his students and postdocs, will use this facility to collaborate with scientists from throughout the country, as well as engineers and rover operators at JPL

Although agricultural improvements have boosted food production in the past 50 years, drought and salinization threaten more than half of the planet’s arable land

“Our findings are a bit of a course correction for the scientific community, but this is how the scientific process works; it’s a normal part of the ongoing debate," researcher explains

Funding will help  develop an unmanned aerial vehicle to find animals in the wild that are carrying tiny transmitting tags

Estimates put the amount of carbon stored in soils of the permafrost region to be almost twice the amount present in the atmosphere