After our fall 2016 survey, we’re collecting stories about UNM faculty loads. We want to hear from you about your service load. Preliminary results from our fall 2016 survey of UNM faculty indicate that women and underrepresented minorities (URMs) are more likely to report higher service burdens than their male and non-URM counterparts. When asked […] Read More
Yemane Asmerom Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Yemane Asmerom is a professor of isotope geochemistry at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, the University of New Mexico. He founded and is the director of the Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory. Asmerom was born in Eritrea and moved to the […] Read More
Ecologists take a comprehensive look at sagebrush habitat through the eyes of a small, but important, resident Full story at https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/foragingrabbits.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
Changes in ocean temperature affect a key species of phytoplankton, according to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Their study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, tracked levels of Synechococcus — a tiny bacterium common in marine ecosystems — near the coast […] Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the most recent awardees for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for graduate education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “Innovative and interdisciplinary approaches will be key to […] Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have jointly awarded $21.6 million for <a … More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190060&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
The “flash drought” that unexpectedly gripped the U.S. Southern Rockies and Midwest in the summer of 2012 could have been predicted months in advance using soil moisture and snowpack data, according to new research. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) analyzed the conditions leading to the 2012 drought — which resulted […] Read More
