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, […]

Congratulations to Jornada LTER co-PI Ferran Garcia-Pichel, who was just named Regents Professor at Arizona State University. This is a very well-deserved achievement! See the ASU press release here.

Fantastic news at the Jornada! We were given official notice from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that the Jornada LTER will be funded for an additional four years. Congratulations to all our dedicated researchers and staff for their excellent research and for their efforts on the proposal. Continuously funded since 1982, the Jornada LTER was

This year’s symposium with the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range has gone virtual. Presentations will cover themes on climate adaptations in the Southwest; Southwest beef supply chains-strategies for sustainability; ecosystem dynamics and management; and big data science and tools. Several Jornada LTER-affiliated researchers will be presenting itheir work in the symposium. Check out the pre-recorded presentations

The Jornada LTER is now on Twitter (@JornadaLTER). For news and highlights from our program, follow us at https://twitter.com/JornadaLTER !