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Each summer a wonderful group of teachers, staff and students converge on Bosque School’s campus to work as a team, to take care of each other and the environment, to think about bugs and observe snapping turtles! These people are the community of Horizons Albuquerque, and I was privileged to be a part of Horizons as one of their BEMP … Read More

Blog Post by Sarah Moser, Bosque School Alumna and Delaney Hill, Amy Biehl Charter High School Alumna We are two recent high school graduates working as interns in the BEMP program. Delaney went to Amy Biehl Charter High School, and will be attending UNM this fall. Sarah graduated from Bosque School, and will be going to Bard College in New … Read More

Blog Post by Rowan Converse, BEMP’s Data Manager and Bosque School and BEMP Alumna I traveled from the banks of the Rio Grande to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River to represent BEMP at the Citizen Science Association Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, from May 17th-20th, 2017. While the weather was cold and grey throughout the conference, the presentations … Read More

Post by Ivan Robles, Tamarisk Leaf Beetle Summer Intern for 2017 On Monday, June 5th, I attended the Sevilleta Science Symposium at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, hosted by Dr. Jennifer Rudgers, from the University of New Mexico’s Department of Biology. She is serving as the Principal Investigator for the newly re-instated Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (SEV-LTER) site. The … Read More

On May 15th 2017, students of all ages from Albuquerque and Puerto Rico gathered (virtually) to share their long term scientific research of their respective bosques and rios during the 5th Annual Simposio Virtual. Students from Puerto Rico worked with the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Schoolyard program to study and present important issues like water quality, changes within the … Read More

Join BEMP, Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, and New Mexico PBS at Bosque School on Tuesday April 25 for a special screening of The Crowd and The Cloud – Citizens4earth. The Crowd and the Cloud is a four-part docu-series about citizen science projects around the globe. Episode 4, Citizens4earth, highlights the work of citizen scientists and the technology they use. … Read More

On a chilly Tuesday morning on April 4th, 2017, 120 1st graders and 35 high school students braved the cold and the wind to celebrate Otter Day! Every year Bosque School students invite young students to learn about otters and their habitat in New Mexico. The host students led games like River Clean Up Tag and Otter Adaptation Dress Up … Read More

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