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Tipoffs for Tucson, Arizona (City) Newsletter for Thursday April 21, 2022 ( 2 items )  

- University of Arizona Paleoclimatologist to Receive NSF Highest Early-Career Honor
TUCSON, Arizona, April 21 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Jessica Tierney, a University of Arizona geoscientist who studies ancient climates, is one of three scientists to be named a 2022 recipient of the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award. The award, which comes with $1 million over five years, is the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers, and recognizes outstanding individual achievements in NSF-supported re  more

Small But Mighty: How University of Arizona Researchers Are Harnessing the Power of Algae to Capture Carbon
TUCSON, Arizona, April 21 (TNSRes) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * An astrobiologist, an engineer and an ecologist have teamed up to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. * * * As a University of Arizona professor of astronomy and planetary sciences who studies planets orbiting other stars, Daniel Apai spends much of his time thinking about what makes worlds habitable. On Earth, the carbon cycle plays a key role in maintaining conditions for lif  more