Environment and Ecology
NMSU celebrates $5.88 million
Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research grant (NMSU photo by Darren Phillips)
Key environmental and ecological research includes the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on New Mexico; operation of the New Mexico Climate Center; The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project, tasked with mapping and assessing the biodiversity of a five-state region in the southwest; a bi-national assessment with Mexico on southwest regional air quality; USDA- and NSF-supported studies of long-term ecological research sites in the Jornada Experimental Range; processes and patterns in North American monsoons; and research integrating climate science to facilitate decision making and risk mitigation.
Major Projects
- Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring Research Program
PI: Russell Hardy, rhardy@nmsu.edu, (575) 234-9210 - LTER: Long Term Research at Jornada Basin
PI: Debra Peters, debpeter@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-2777 - Preparing Students for Career Paths with the USDA Forest Service by Linking Student Success with Experiential Learning Opportunities in Forest Management and Climate Change Ecology
PI: Martha Desmond, mdesmond@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-1217 - Acequia Water Systems Linking Culture and Nature: Integrated Analysis of Community Resilience to Climate and Land Use Changes
PI: Sam Fernald, afernald@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-1041 - Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project
PI: Kenneth Boykin, kboykin@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-6303 - Distribution and Habitat Selection/Space Use of Migratory and Resident Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in Areas with High Potential for
Wind Energy Development in New
Mexico
PI: Gary Roemer, groemer@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-3394 - Land-Based Sources of Air Quality Contaminants in the Binational Border Region of Southwestern New Mexico,
Northwestern Chihuahua and West Texas
PI: David DuBois, dwdubois@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-2974
Researchers
- David DuBois, State Climatologist, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Kenneth Boykin, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
- Sam Fernald, Animal and Range Scieces
- Martha Desmond, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
- David Cowley, Fishery & Wildlife Sciences
- Gary Roemer, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
- Adrian Unc, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Debra Peters, Jornada Experimental Rangee
Major Units
- Department of Plant and Environmental Science
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
- Jornada Experimental Range
- NMSU Center for Applied Spatial Ecology
- New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- New Mexico Climate Center
- Southwest Ichthyological Research Laboratory