This Saturday kicks of the first National Citizen Science Day! Join BEMP educator Kelly Steinberg, this Saturday, April 16th from 2-4pm to learn about how BEMP is a unique citizen science program. BEMP is thrilled to host a booth along with other great citizen science programs of New Mexico like Nature’s Notebook and the Rio Grande Phenology Trail Network. Come out and … Read More
Dan Shaw Earth Day Talk: April 10th, 2pm
This Sunday at 2pm, at the Bachechi Open Space Visitor Center, in honor of the upcoming Earth Day, BEMP’s Co-Director Dan Shaw will discuss how young people are studying and caring for the water, fish, and other creatures in and around desert streams, ponds, lakes, and rivers. Join Dan to learn more about BEMP, the student citizen scientists of New … Read More
197 kgs of leaf litter in BEMP’s 20 year history!
March Monthly Monitoring was a great success! Here you can see BEMP Biologist Sean O’Neill discussing how the river has changed in the last 20 years with Cottonwood Valley Charter School students. This month we also added up all our leaf litter data and found out that BEMP has so far, in the last ~20 years, collected 434 lbs or 197 … Read More
BEMP contributes to Nature’s Notebook
Last week students from Bandelier Elementary visited BEMP for a Study Trip and enjoyed picnic-ing and jumping rope by the river. During BEMP Study trips, students from all over the area come to Bosque School and help collect data about the seasonal changes occurring in the bosque and share their data with the National Phenology Network through the Nature’s Notebook … Read More
Crawford Symposium 2016 was a great success!
On Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 BEMP held its annual Crawford Symposium. It was an incredible night of sharing, learning, and inspiration. Students of all ages presented posters on topics ranging from “Why the Love BEMP!” (presented by the Belen Family School with presenters as young as 8 years old!) to graduate students showcasing their work regarding episodic drying events of … Read More
Horizon Students Meet Bob the Goose
During Horizon’s Super Saturdays students from this enrichment program learn about how the bosque and it’s inhabitants change throughout the year with BEMP. In February several students met one of the bosque pond’s winter residents, Bob the Canada Goose. Bob has been at Bosque School since late January and thanks to the band around her leg we know that Bob is actually a female … Read More
BEMP on the Radio!
Check out BEMP on KNAU’s Earthnotes program. It aired on Albuquerque’s KUNM radio station on January 13, 2016.
Annual Data Users’ Meeting: June 19th, 2015
BEMP hosted a number of New Mexico natural resource managers, teachers and other partners at our Annual Data Users’ Meeting. BEMP Ecologist Kim Fike presented some results from her master’s work titled, “Drying Events in the Rio Grande: Effects on Hydrology, Riparian Vegetation and Arthropod Communities,” where she used BEMP data to analyze differences in perennial and intermittent sections of … Read More
USGS River, Riparian, & Watershed Restoration Workshop
On June 23-25, BEMP was invited to speak about our unique blend of citizen science and scientifically-rigorous data at the US Geological Survey River, Riparian and Watershed Restoration Workshop in Flagstaff, AZ. Science Coordinator, Jennifer Schuetz, presented BEMP as a model program, highlighting how the organization functions, what we do and lessons learned. It was wonderful hearing about what others … Read More
2015 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award in Land and Ecosystem Stewardship
BEMP celebrated Earth Day 2015 with Governor Martinez, New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and other groups working to restore and protect the natural heritage and environmental health of the state. Governor Martinez and BEMP staff were joined by students from South Valley Academy and Bosque School, received the 2015 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award in Land and Ecosystem Stewardship. Thank you … Read More