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Outdoor Science Lab Loses Funding

Three people stand in a woodsy area, observing a pole in the ground.

May 28, 2021 – Since the 1990s, the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program has brought tens of thousands of students to the Rio Grande each year. There, students collect data on everything from the health of the cottonwood forest to the depth of groundwater. That long-term monitoring data has been used by federal and state scientists…

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Students & Scientists Benefit From The Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program

NMiF: Our Land

December 8, 2017 – More than 20 years ago, Dan Shaw co-founded the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program, or BEMP, with the late-Cliff Crawford, a biology professor at the University of New Mexico. Today, thousands of New Mexico students from the upper Rio Grande to Las Cruces participate in the program. Students learn about science and…

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