[Srm] Fw: Greetings from Las Cruces! and Inquiry about Phenology-based REU at the Jornada Summer 2016

[Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)]

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From: Dawn Browning <dbrownin at nmsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 12:59 PM
To: Guertin, D Phillip - (dpg); Archer, Steven R - (sarcher); daveb at emali.arizona.edu; Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran); Moore, David Joseph - (davidjpmoore); Papuga, Shirley A - (papuga); Van Leeuwen, Willem J - (leeuw); Marsh, Stuart E - (smarsh)
Cc: 'dawn.browning at ars.usda.gov'; Janet Franklin (janet.franklin1 at gmail.com); Jake Weltzin (jweltzin at usgs.gov); 'Enrique Vivoni' (vivoni at asu.edu)
Subject: Greetings from Las Cruces! and Inquiry about Phenology-based REU at the Jornada Summer 2016

Greetings everyone!
I hope you are enjoying life in Tucson (and Tempe) as much as I am in Las Cruces. Going through the SNRE website to retrieve your contact information was a little nostalgic for me. I truly treasure my time in SNR. I welcome the opportunity to reconnect with you and I trust things are going well in SNRE. I am writing today to ask if you might know of good candidates for an REU opportunity at the Jornada this summer. The project on which I would mentor a student involves working with historic photographs from a phenology study established by John Ludwig and others in the mid-1980s and repeating those photographs to expand the record as well as derive phenology-indicators from the data set. It's part detective work, part field work, and part photo processing - all fun.

My interactions with undergraduate students are few, so I thought I would reach out to you to ask if you might know of good students that would welcome an opportunity for a research experience this summer at the Jornada and be interested in working with me on this project. I've attached information about the program (in general). If you have a candidate (or two), please let me know. I'm happy to then forward the details to you and them.  It's great pay for a student and has tremendous potential for insightful outcomes.

I hope you are having a great week.
Sincerely,
Dawn

Dawn Browning, Ph.D.
Research Ecologist
USDA - ARS Jornada Experimental Range
Las Cruces, NM 88001
dbrownin at nmsu.edu<mailto:dbrownin at nmsu.edu>
(o) 575-646-8032

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