Monday, July 30, 2018

NSF awards $6.4 million grant to Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research drylands site

NSF awards $6.4 million grant to Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research drylands site

A group of scientists sitting on rocks at Cibola Canyon, N.M., in NSF's Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research site.

To discover how environmental change is affecting dryland ecosystems, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a five-year, $6.4 million grant in new support of the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in central New Mexico.

The location is one of 28 NSF LTER sites in ecosystems from deserts to salt marshes, coral reefs to forests.

A main goal of the Sevilleta LTER site is understanding how and why dryland ecosystems change over time. Sevilleta ...

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296088&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


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Published July 30, 2018 at 03:30PM
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