Renzi (AZ01) - Press Release - Renzi Announces Fire Study Grant for NAU

CONGRESSMAN RICK RENZI (AZ-1)
Rural Arizona’s Voice in the House of Representatives

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	January 23, 2007	Vartan Djihanian – 202-226-8273


	Renzi Announces Fire Study Grant for NAU $703,000 grant will be used to study fuel dynamics in Southwest


	WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Rick Renzi (AZ-01) announced today that Northern Arizona University will be receiving $703,000 in federal funds over the next four years from the National Science Foundation. The funds will be used to support undergraduate and graduate students working on a project entitled “Interaction of Fire, Climate, and Forest Structure in Northern Mexico”. “I am delighted that NAU will be receiving these critical funds to study forest fires in the Southwest,” said Congressman Rick Renzi. “Any research that can help foster a better understanding of fire patterns will help save lives and property, especially in such fire prone areas as Northern Arizona.” Under the new program, researchers from both the United States and Mexico will work jointly to create a network of long-term fire and climate chronologies in an effort to help better understand fuel dynamics in northern Mexico. This will not only increase the current understanding of how fuel and climate effects fire regimes presently in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, but will help increase understanding of how they might change in the future. The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that was created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. During the 109^th Congress, funding for the National Science Foundation was approved by Congress through the Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2006 (H.R. 2862) with the support of Congressman Renzi. # # #

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