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IMAGE: Sloan Digital Sky Survey archival image from March 2004 (top) and the image from the authors observation campaign of the blazar, B2 1420+32, taken in January 2020 using ASAS-SN (bottom).. view more
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey archival image from March 2004 (top) and the image from the authors observation campaign of the blazar, B2 1420+32, taken in January 2020 using ASAS-SN (bottom)..
A University of Oklahoma doctoral student, graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and an associate professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences are lead authors on a paper describing a changing-look blazar - a powerful active galactic nucleus powered by supermassive blackhole at the center of a galaxy. The paper is published in
The answer is something infectious disease experts are working to uncover. As COVID-19 revealed, the same pathogen can have widely varying outcomes in different people.
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IMAGE: Interannual changes of forest area, aboveground biomass (AGB), active fire area, burned area, and atmospheric CO2 concentration in the Brazilian Amazon view more
Credit: Xiangming Xiao
An international team led by Xiangming Xiao, George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, published a paper in the April issue of the journal
Nature Climate Change that has major implications on forest policies, conservation and management practices in the Brazilian Amazon. Xiao also is director of OU s Center for Earth Observation and Modeling. Yuanwei Qin, a research scientist at the Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, is the lead author of the study.
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Dec 19, 2020
Beginning in January, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will feature the exhibit âPlaces of Power: Painted Photographs of Sacred Landscapes by Corson Hirschfeld.â
Opening Jan. 6 in the second-floor Higginbotham gallery, the exhibit will feature hand-painted photographs of ancient, sacred spaces, including cultural and archaeological sites, cultural landscapes and petroglyphs from over 20 countries.
Hirschfeld came to Norman in 2006 to be with his wife, Tassie Hirschfeld, who is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences.
In his earlier days, he was a herpetologist studying reptiles and amphibians. He also had a long career as a studio photographer in Cincinnati before moving to Norman. His published three suspense novels.