Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, public access to Wooton Hall on the campus of New Mexico State University is restricted. Most Jornada Basin LTER staff are working from home at this time, so it is best to contact us via email. For more info contact project manager Nina Joffe (njoffe.jrn.lter@gmail.com).

The U.S. Dustbowl was a devastating event for much of the Great Plains, but its effects tapered off in Iowa. Deb Peters and her team wanted to know more about this spatial pattern, and their findings are presented in a new article in the ESA journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2194). See the

Click here to visit our new data viewer. This new tool for visualizing near real-time meteorology data, and a variety of spatial layers is under development by Dr. Geovany Ramirez.

Recent PhD graduate Adam Schreiner-McGraw, Enrique Vivoni, and others at the Jornada recently published a high-profile paper indicating that shrub encroachment has an outsize effect on dryland water budgets. The paper is published in the journal Scientific Reports (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65094-x). See the figure and citation info below. Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., Vivoni, E.R., Ajami, H., Sala, O.E., Throop,