Nina Joffe

Earlier this month, Jornada LTER graduate students took over the U.S. LTER Network Instagram account and shared their work, photography, and efforts in the field with the LTER community. We’ll be highlighting some of these stories here over the next few weeks! Taylor Hansen is an MS student in the Savanna Lab at New Mexico […]

Caroline Toth will defend her master’s research next Wednesday afternoon, March 24 at 3 pm.  Caroline is a graduate student in Plant and Environmental Sciences (PES) at NMSU and a Jornada Basin LTER Graduate Research Fellow.    Caroline’s public seminar will (it’s hard to believe, after all this time) be filmed in front of a live audience. 

A number of Jornada researchers, led by Dr. Enrique R. Vivoni, recently published a new paper in Hydrological Processes. The research group sought to understand how variations in grassland to shrubland transitions might influence ecohydrology. To address this, Vivoni and a group of undergraduate and graduate students established research catchments in the Jornada Experimental Range

The Jornada Basin LTER provides support for half-time, 12 month (up to $24,000/y) and summer research fellowships (up to $6000/summer) for graduate students conducting research directly related to the goals of the Jornada LTER. Graduate Research Fellows may be eligible for up to 2 years (halftime) or 2 summers of support, for students in good

The Jornada Basin LTER has funding to support a modest number of undergraduate research (JRN-REU) fellowships each summer. Students will work with mentors associated with JRN-LTER or NMSU on research related to Jornada LTER research themes.  For details and application instructions regarding the 2021 REU program, please see the flier and application form. Applications are due