For Student Researchers

If you have signed up to participate in the poster session at the 3rd Annual Tri-State Western Consortium Meeting, please take a look at the links provided below.

   Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation                     Poster Session Rules & Judging Criteria

Forms

EDAC will host software development projects for the Western Tri-State Consortium, including a software versioning system. Subversion is an open source version control system. Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac provides an interface to Subversion.

   Request software development project hosting

Publications

General

SOLVING THE PUZZLE Researching the Impacts of Climate Change Around the World, NSF Research Report 2009	Link to State of New Mexico's Science and Technology Plan
Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate Barnett and Pierce, Preceding National Academy of Science, Early Edition, April 2009.	An Overview of Potential Economic Costs to New Mexico of a Business-As-Usual Approach to Climate Change A Report from The Program on Climate Economics, Climate Leadership Initiative, Institute for a Sustainable Environment University of Oregon, February 2009.
Beaver As a Climate Change Adaptation Tool: Concepts and Priority Sites in New Mexico Cathryn Wild, Science and Stewardship Director at the Seventh Generation Institute.

NM EPSCoR Scientists

Modulation of river flow by irrigation system surface water-ground water interactions. Proceedings of the USDA CREES National Water Conference St. Louis, MO, February 8-12, 2009	Mountain Snow Equals River Flow NMSU Research & Resources, 2009
Water: A most valuable commodity Las Cruces Magazine, Spring 2009	NMSU Researchers Tracking Water Supply Las Cruces Sun New, Jan 26, 20099
Production of vegetation spatial-strucute maps by per-object analysis of Juniper Encroachment in multi-temporal aerial photographs, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 34, Supplement S2, 2008	La cultura de la aequia. Agua, tierra y comunidad en el suroeste de les estados unidos de amer Dr. José A. Rivera, UNM EPSCoR scientist. His research on acequia systems was published in North America in a book in Spanish through the University of Valencia Press, Spain.
Assessing the Near-Term Risk of Climate Uncertainty Vince Tidwell, Sandia National Laboratories and NM EPSCoR. The report has been recently featured on the blog Climate Progress, and the magazine Science Progress.	Response of heterotrophic stream biofilm communities to a gradient of resources D. J. Van Horn1,*, R. L. Sinsabaugh1, C. D. Takacs-

Diversity

Sample Diversity Plans

Two plans recently developed in New Mexico provide approaches that other public institutions in New Mexico can consider when developing their own plans.

UNM Office of Equity & Inclusion Diversity Plan Faculty Search Committee Procedures Handbook

NMSU Effective Strategies to diversify STEM Faculty Presentation Guide to Diversity

The following diversity plans from institutions outside of New Mexico have been identified as exemplary and provide additional information that can be useful for NM institutions of higher education.

   UCLA
   Berkeley
   Cornell

Diversity Publications

   Staying Competitive: Patching America’s Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
   Marc Goulden, Ph.D., Karie Frasch, Ph.D., and Mary Ann Mason, J.D., Ph.D.
   The University of California, Berkeley
   Berkeley Center on Health, Economic, & Family Security and
   The Center for American Progress
   November 2009

   Title IX Includes Maternal Discrimination
   By Mary Ann Mason
   Chronicle of Higher Education November 19, 2009

   Western Consortium Tri-State Diversity Plan
    Latest draft, April 2011

For more information on NM EPSCoR's diversity efforts, visit our Diversity Page.