Jornada Basin Schoolyard LTER Project

Increasing scientific literacy by fostering an understanding of the Chihuahuan Desert

P.O. Box 891
Las Cruces, NM 88004
505-524-3334 Voice
505-523-2866 FAX
cdnp@zianet.com
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Schoolyard Desert Discovery Project
( Jornada Basin Schoolyard LTER program)

Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park Home Schoolyard Desert Discovery Home History of the Schoolyard Desert Discovery Program Program Components Participating Schools Get Your School Involved E-mail Us		The Schoolyard Desert Discovery Project is a unique science education program that brings the excitement of authentic, locally relevant environmental science to more than 6,500 K-12 students throughout New Mexico and West Texas each year.
		The Schoolyard Desert Discovery Project is part of the national Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER), a collaborative network of more than 1800 scientists and students at 24 sites across the country.
		Locally, the Schoolyard Desert Discovery Project is coordinated by a collaboration of the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park, the Jornada Basin LTER, and the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range. Each partner brings considerable expertise to the project, facilitating the expansion of the project to far more students than could be reached by any one partner alone.

		History of the Schoolyard Desert Discovery Program Program Components Participating Schools Get Your School Involved E-mail Us
		The site was last updated on April 25, 2006 Copyright 2005, Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park.