Each year, one of our BEMP schools – Bandelier Elementary School in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque – holds a fundraising event each spring to raise money for our Art-in-the-School program. On Friday, March 31st at 6:00pm, Bandelier will host the Chair-a-Tea, featuring chairs/furniture designed by the students. Under the guidance of Ms. Stephanie Becker, the students in Ms. Susan … Read More

Tuesday, March 7th marked a momentous night for BEMP – we hosted the 2017 Crawford Symposium and we celebrated our 20th anniversary. In the last 20 years, we have grown from a small monitoring effort with only a few sites (Alameda was our first site!) to the 32 BEMP sites we have today, stretching over 320 miles of the Rio … Read More

BEMP and Bosque School advanced wildlife students have spent the better part of a year working on independent research projects addressing questions about local wildlife. On February 9-11th they traveled to Farmington, NM to present their findings at the 50th Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society and Arizona/New Mexico Chapter of The … Read More

BEMP is proudly observing the bosque in a new way – through phenology. Phenology is the study of when and how plants and animals change based on the seasons. Some of the data we collect at BEMP, through a program called Nature’s Notebook, helps us to understand the timing of bud bursts, leaf growth, flowering, migrating, nesting, etc. in many … Read More

My name is Keara Bixby and I am BEMP’s Crawford Intern for the 2016-2017 school year. I am currently finishing my last semester at UNM where I majored in Biology with a focus in Conservation and a minor Sustainability. Much of what I have learned throughout my undergraduate studies has boiled down to the idea that everything is intimately connected … Read More

On Friday, January 13th, BEMP staff and students spent the night out at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. A full moon helped these intrepid researchers conduct the winter jackrabbit survey of 2017. Four of our Bosque School seventh graders, BEMP Educator Kelly Steinberg, and BEMP’s Crawford Intern Keara Bixby drove a 21.5 mile loop around the Sevilleta’s long term ecological … Read More

Have a happy and healthy holiday! We are eternally grateful to our students, teachers, supporters, and science partners for a successful year of monitoring, learning, and researching. We’ll see you out in the bosque in 2017! Sincerely, The BEMP Team

As I complete my internship with BEMP, it is hard to sum up everything I have observed and learned. I came to BEMP because it seemed to combine two of my passions: youth empowerment and environmental stewardship. I was also interested in the idea of a program centered around watershed education, especially in the American southwest during this historic drought. … Read More

BEMP is committed to helping students succeed in all aspects of the scientific process: constructing hypotheses, performing hands-on research, analyzing their results, and communicating their findings. Our students know that they are making important contributions to a body of long-term data on the Rio Grande watershed. This information is used by policy makers and other local stakeholders. Many students also … Read More

Photo: Dan Shaw with students, trapping and collaring a porcupine.  Bosque School student Sarah (’17) and Delaney (Amy Biehl HS ’18) are partnering with the UNM Biology Department and NCGR (National Center for Genome Resources) to study porcupine genetics in the Albuquerque Bosque. Over the past 13 years, Dan Shaw, BEMP Co-Director and Bosque School Wildlife Biology Faculty, and his students have … Read More