Church Rock, N.M. has been home to the Diné, Navajo people, long before uranium mines appeared during the Cold War and is the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in recorded U.S. history. On-going and slow-paced uranium mine waste cleanup efforts...

MLA students from China, Yu Zhou and Sunanda Sharmin and Alina Comacho from Costa Rica, working with Ph.D. Civil Engineering student Cherie DeVore on surveying and collecting plant samples for testing on Standing Black Tree Mesa.

Landscape Architecture 503 Fall 2017 with our host, Edith Hood, (far left) of Red Water Pond Road Community, the morning after our camping experience on Standing Black Tree Mesa, the envisioned site of an off the grid Diné community.

Civil Engineering Professor Mark Stone flying a drone over Standing Black Tree Mesa to create photogrammetric topography.

Master of Landscape Architecture student, Natalie Marie Schneider, sketching and writing at dawn at Standing Black Tree Mesa.