Melinda Fouts, Ph.D., Psychotherapist, International Executive Coach, Columnist & Featured Contributor for Forbes Coaching Counsel and Founder of Success Starts With You, was recently chosen to receive the Empowered Woman of the Year Award for 2021 given by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)
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Melinda Fouts, Ph.D., Psychotherapist, International Executive Coach, Columnist & Featured Contributor for Forbes Coaching Counsel and Founder of Success Starts With You, was recently chosen to receive the Empowered Woman of the Year Award for 2021 given by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). Her exemplary role as a female professional in a male dominated industry displays her influence, capability, and proficiency.
Pseudogymnoascus destructans (
Pd) has been detected on hibernating bats and cave walls in two eastern New Mexico caves managed by its Roswell Field Office.
Bat with White-Nose Syndrome/CDC
Pd is an invasive fungus that can spread rapidly, primarily through bat-to-bat contact, and that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), in hibernating bats. WNS has killed millions of bats in North America. According to a recent study published in
Conservation Biology, the disease has killed over 90 percent of exposed populations of three bat species in fewer than 10 years.
During routine WNS surveillance conducted in April 2021, a team of biologists observed white powdery growth consistent with the
Hydrologist Shalenee Chavarria has a new paper out about the Rio Grande s streamflows
For more than a decade, researchers have explained that warming will affect water supplies in the southwestern United States. Now in a new paper, hydrologist Shaleene Chavarria and University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor David Gutzler show climate change is already affecting the amount of streamflow in the Rio Grande that comes from snowmelt.
“We see big changes in the winter and early spring,” said Chavarria. “Big changes in winter temperature, increases in springtime temperatures and decreases in streamflow.”
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, is based on her graduate work in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department.
Kaitlyn Norman’s teen years weren’t easy. Placed into the foster care system, she bounced around to different families and high schools ̶ a tough background to emerge from with success. She’s graduating this month from The University of New Mexico with her Bachelor of Music in Performance.
Norman was thrown into the foster system when her mother relapsed into drug addiction.
“Eventually things escalated to a violent tipping point, the police were called, and my mother and her boyfriend were arrested,” she recalled.
Foster homes were chaotic.
“When you’re 13 and in custody, you’re viewed as dangerous and unstable. Because you are a teenager, people don’t feel comfortable opening their homes,” she observed.