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.