This Week @ AU

NASA has awarded an AU School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences researcher a $1 million grant to study the monsoon climate changes of 20 countries in the portion of Asia that includes the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China. This area is controlled by the monsoon climate, which is of crucial importance to Asia because it brings the water that supports human life, plants and animals, said Hanqin Tian, an AU ecology professor and the project's principal investigator. Tian said there is concern that land cover and land use changes caused by urbanization, deforestation and biofuel production may affect local, regional and global climates. Tian's goals are to understand the interactions among land use, ecosystems and climates and to project the impacts until 2050. To make these projections, he will create a model of the region's climate, ecosystem, land use and economy using NASA satellite pictures, remote sensing and field observations. To read the news release, see http://wireeagle.auburn.edu/news/402.

Tags: Forestry, NASA, research, Sciences, Wildlife

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