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The University of New Mexico Department of Geography & Environmental Studies recently launched a new center focused on community engagement and outreach. The new R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography works to bring together UNM and the public to address critical human environment issues and work on projects that use UNM expertise and resources to benefit local communities, according to GES professor and Center director Maria Lane.
City Nature Challenge
In one of its first events, the Center for Community Geography is helping to organize a community-wide citizen science effort, collaborating with numerous city partners in the City Nature Challenge, and encouraging UNM students and other residents of the Albuquerque metro area to participate in documenting urban nature and help scientists collect data on the biodiversity of the region.
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The Wildlife Refuge Helping a Community Fight for Environmental Justice
Egrets gather at an irrigation canal near the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, on June 23, 2014.
Photo by Roberto E. Rosales / Albuquerque Journal / ZUMAPRESS.com / Alamy
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The South Valley in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was once a thriving oasis of food production watered by a network of historic irrigation canals, or
acequias. Today, it’s home to several historic neighborhoods along the Rio Grande, including Mountain View.
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