Geography

The UNM Department of Geography and Environmental Studies hosts its annual Murphy lecture, where it invites a member from another university to talk about its research in geography. This year's speaker is Dr. Kirk Goldsberry, associate director of the...

Whether you walk or drive to The University of New Mexico, hundreds of students, staff, and faculty trek across Albuquerque’s Central Avenue to get to class, including UNM Senior Jackie Davis. She crosses Central at Buena Vista daily and has noticed a dangerous trend that she wants to see fixed.

The University of New Mexico Department of Geography and Environmental Studies granted its first doctoral degree at the end of the Summer 2024 semester. Daniel Beene received his Ph.D. after completing his dissertation titled “Critical Geospatial Data...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced it will invest nearly $16 million in three research projects led or supported by The University of New Mexico. The grants are part of a $77.8 million NSF investment in projects that will build climate...

Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards.  The 11 funded projects include a study of carbon storage in soils along the middle Rio Grande floodplain, an investigation into rural New...

Babies born with weights less than 5 lbs 8 ounces (2,500 grams), can face a host of health challenges and an increased risk for chronic health problems like diabetes and heart disease later in life. Now, for the first time, researchers at The University...

An upcoming conference at UNM is focusing on the future of water and all that depends on it across the Americas. The Transect of the Americas Symposium: Water & Climate Change Across the Americas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Headwater Dependent...

Albuquerque locals are invited to join The University of New Mexico R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography in the City Nature Challenge.  If you can download an app and take photos, you can help protect biodiversity in Albuquerque. It’s as easy as...

A team from The University of New Mexico will present Shared.Futures, a unique collaborative event that brings together science and art at Adult Night at ¡Explora!, the center for activities in science, technology and art in Albuquerque. Shared.Futures...

An idea to simplify how migratory populations of ducks, geese and cranes are counted first hatched around a campfire. The project took flight in Bosque Del Apache earlier this month for its first-ever waterfowl survey. Every winter, wildlife managers...