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 […]

The Jornada generates a wealth of ecological data collected at sites across the Jornada Experimental Range. This video, created by members of the Information Management team, discusses Jornada research data principles, key available datasets, current (and future) data management systems, how to utilize data, and how to contribute data. Click here to download powerpoint slides.

Dr. Curtis Monger’s and his former student Jiaping Wang’s research explored the use of carbon isotopes in the soil to understand what vegetation may have looked like in the past. Below is a presentation of this work from the recent Jornada Symposium.

Jornada researcher Niall Hanan’s and colleague Julius Anchang’s recent News and Views piece in Nature (“Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth“) has some exciting follow-up news! The article is currently featured in Nature’s list of “Ten remarkable discoveries from 2020“. Citing original research from Brandt et al., Dr. Hanan and Dr. Anchang describe

Jornada researchers and their work were recently featured in The Arizona Republic. Dr. Ferran Garcia-Pichel and graduate students Julie Rakes and Corey Nelson study biocrust, a community of microorganisms living on soil surfaces. Biocrusts are ecologically important to the desert and can help to reduce air pollution, increase soil fertility, fix nitrogen, prevent soil erosion,