NAU News — NAU pathogen scientist collaborating on vaccine that could prevent, treat COVID-19

	NAU pathogen scientist collaborating on vaccine that could prevent, treat COVID-19 C. Todd French, assistant professor of biology and leader of NAU’s COVID-19 Testing Service Center, is studying a vault-based coronavirus vaccine that could represent a step toward blocking the outbreak of a similar virus in the future.
	NAU’s Vulcan Project uses fossil fuel emissions to show best match to carbon-14 measurements The study findings from SICCS professor Kevin Gurney take a dramatic step toward a greenhouse gas information system that can fundamentally change the way cities, states and the nation tackle climate change.
	NAU professor a collaborator on research that addresses need for conservation of springs in drying climate Hydrogeologist Abe Springer contributed results and implications on springs as refugia from his research group’s springs ecohydrology research and helped develop a geomorphological-based classification system for springs ecosystems.
	NAU planetary scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins Assistant professor Christopher Edwards processed the images, which give scientists insight into the physical properties of this moon. In conjunction with other images, this could help settle the debate over whether Phobos is a “captured asteroid” or a chunk that broke off from Mars.