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...274/2024/02/STEPS_PrimaryLogo-Copy2.png STEPS: Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability
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...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🏆 BIG NEWS!🏆 STEPS won Insight into Diversity's 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award. This award honors our commitment to inclusion & belonging in STEM. We are so proud of our Broadening Participation team for their outstanding work and dedication to supporting scholars. Learn more about this award: https://steps-center.org/2024/07/18/steps-center-receives-insight-into-diversity-magazines-2024-inspiring-programs-in-stem-award/ #nsffunded #nsfstories #inclusion #STEM cc: @NCStateEngr @NCStateCALS
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.pngWhat do you get when you mix: 🎓 Outstanding students with a passion for STEM 🤩 All-star faculty and staff 🌟 Innovative ideas for tackling P sustainability? Answer❓ExPlorers 2024, our summer camp introducing students to our mission and convergence research. ➡️ Learn more in our news story recapping this year: https://steps-center.org/2024/07/16/steps-explorers-summer-2024-program-recap/ #nsffunded #nsfstories #convergence #research #sustainability #inclusion #STEM
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🌍 STEPS scholar Quintino Medi represented STEPS this week at the Nanotechnology Convergence for Sustainable Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Health in Casablanca, Morocco. He shared his team's work on developing better ortho-P sensors. Congratulations, Quintino! #nsffunded #nsfstories
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🚽 Recovering P from waste through urine diversion systems is a key area of our convergence research portfolio. From the technical to the social, we're digging deeply into this promising P sustainability solution. 🤩Learn more about our recent publications in our latest news article: https://steps-center.org/2024/07/10/new-steps-publications-on-urine-diversion-for-p-recovery/ #nsfstories #nsffunded #convergenceresearch #phosphorus #sustainability
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🌽 Can we grow #corn with less #fertilizer? STEPS researchers are finding out how ancient strains of #maize hold clues for how we can do this in modern farming. Read more in American Scientist blog, written by our scholar Alison Deviney: https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/from-the-staff/ancient-maize-yields-clues-to-more-resilient-corn #farming #nutrients #nitrogen #phosphorus #research #scicomm
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🚨New publication alert!🚨 STEPS researchers have a new paper in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, "Researchers must address regulatory regimes to scale up adoption of urine diversion systems in the U.S." 💡Key insights: - #Urine #diversion systems can positively impact P recovery and are generally viewed positively, but adoption remains low. - Prior STEPS research has identified that regulations may be a major barrier to adoption. - This paper provides a schematic and an inventory of the laws and regulations that apply to urine diversion systems in the U.S., and outlines each one from the point of collection to beneficial reuse. - This work is written for environmental engineers and other scientific experts in the field who may be less familiar with the importance of laws and regulations but seeking to explore UD systems as a solution. 📄Read the full text here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ad59c3
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🔬Attention future scientists! Want to learn about phosphorus sustainability in a highly engaging summer camp? Join STEPS ExPlorers July 8-12 at the Joint School for Nanoscience & Nanoengineering in Greensboro, NC. The best part? Our summer camp is FREE! Learn more and apply online: https://jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu/steps-explorers/.
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🌽Are you a grower or extension agent looking to learn more about phosphorus sustainability? We invite you to take a FREE online course, developed by STEPS & University of Florida faculty member Dr. Jango Bhadha, about this essential nutrient's fate, transport, and conservation. ➡️Enroll here: https://ifas-sws.catalog.instructure.com/browse/steps/courses/science-technologies-for-phosphorus-sustainability. 🌟Bonus: This course offers 3 CCA continuing education credits!
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.pngLast week STEPS scholars visited our research site at Goshen Creek near @appstate in Boone, NC to learn more about our Center's research into P flow in the High Country. Say, "P sustainability!"
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🚨New publication alert!🚨 STEPS researchers continue to lead in the area of #urine #diversion research. Their latest work produces benchmarks for urine volume generation and #phosphorus mass recovery in commercial and institutional buildings. 🔑 Key finding: Urine diversion is most viable in commercial and institutional buildings. Read the article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589914724000173?via%3Dihub
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.pngAlgal blooms—when beautiful blue lakes turn bright green due to algae growth—occur when excess nutrients run off into the water. These blooms are increasingly occurring and costing local economies, which lose recreational opportunities due to these toxic blooms. This Guardian article shows how Clear Lake in California is so green it's visible from space: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/california-clear-lake-green-space-images Photo credit: @NASA
...s/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png🚨New publication alert!🚨 STEPS researchers have published a paper characterizing spatiotemporal variability in phosphorus export across the United States using Bayesian hierarchical modeling. They find precipitation important in determining hydrologic export rates and emphasize the importance of P from geogenic sources in overall river export. Read online: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c07479
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H3 Student and Postdoctoral Opportunities
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