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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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There Must Be Other Names for the River

Low view of four people in facemasks talking to each over in a woodsy area.

April 9, 2021 – A new exhibit at the University of New Mexico Art Museum looks at the changing Rio Grande. Taking the concept of “deep time,” creators Marisa Demarco, Dylan McLaughlin, and Jessica Zeglin set the river’s history to song. They looked at the river’s five-million-year-long geological history and took decades’ worth of U.S.…

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