NOAA Upgrades Climate Website Amid Growing Demand For Climate Information
A collage of images used on NOAA’s Climate.gov website. Climate.gov offers magazine-style articles about climate science and describes how climate conditions are changing with maps, graphics, features, and videos, as well as classroom-ready teaching resources matched to grade levels and science learning standards. Courtesy/NOAA Climate.gov
NOAA News:
NOAA’s Climate Program Office today launched a newly redesigned version of Climate.gov, NOAA’s award-winning, flagship website that provides the public with clear, timely, and science-based information about climate. Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 12, 2021
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The weather has gotten cooler-sharply cooler on some mornings with some areas reporting frost here in the Española Valley.
The State Game and Fish Department has started stocking rainbow trout in a few of the municipal lakes and ponds that are part of the Department’s Winter Trout Program.
Tingley Beach in Albuquerque was stocked Oct. 4 with 1,124 rainbow trout. Estancia Park Lake received a stocking Oct. 5 of 224 rainbow trout.
The Winter Trout Program stocks rainbow trout in the lakes and ponds of Southern New Mexico that cannot support Read More
SFNF: Wildfire Preparedness Is Year-Round … Don’t Be Afraid, Take Preventive Action!
Courtesy/SFNF
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — With fall comes the start of another season – prescribed fire season. As we begin smelling smoke, the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) wants to remind residents and visitors of the important role that fire plays in our forests. Continuing with their “Wildfire Preparedness is Year-Round” campaign, their message for October and Halloween is “Don’t Be Afraid, Take Preventive Action”.
Fire-adapted forests across New Mexico historically experienced low-severity wildfire in a way that protected them from widespread mortality and land-type conversion across Read More
SFNF Plans 1,600 Acre Prescribed Burn On Jemez District
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) are looking for an optimal window between now and the end of October to conduct the Stable Canyon prescribed burn.
The 1,600-acre treatment area is adjacent to Forest Road 604 approximately 6 miles north/northwest of the village of Jemez Springs.
Ignitions could begin as early as Wednesday, Oct. 13. A final decision on whether to proceed depends on multiple conditions, including resource availability, fuel moisture levels, air quality and forecasted weather. Prescribed burns are designed to meet specific objectives
Immortal Data Aids In Las Cruces Airport Master Plan Update
From left, James Bennett (IDI), Guy Rouelle (Dubois & King), Chris Sargent (Dubois & King) and Dale Amon (IDI). Courtesy photo
BUSINESS News:
LAS CRUCES — Immortal Data Incorporated (IDI) has recently partnered with the engineering consulting firm Dubois & King as subcontractors to aid in the Master Plan Update for the Las Cruces International Airport. This plan seeks to examine the potential for additional commercial space activity in the Las Cruces area of New Mexico, which is already a key area for new space exploration.
Las Cruces is an ideal stage for commercial space activities, Read More
Governor Raises Over $2.5 Million For Reelection Campaign
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
From the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Reelection Campaign:
ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced today her campaign raised more than $2.5 million from thousands of donors for her reelection effort.
Gov. Lujan Grisham announces this strong fundraising number on the heels of statewide and national endorsements, putting her squarely on the path for victory in November 2022.
Gov. Grisham’s fundraising haul puts her in one of the strongest positions a New Mexico gubernatorial candidate has ever been in. With $2.1 million cash on hand, Gov. Grisham Read More
Luján Chairs Commerce Subcommittee On Communications Hearing On Telehealth And Improving Health Outcomes
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) Chairs the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband.
Sen. Luján recently convened a hearing titled “State of Telehealth: Removing Barriers to Access and Improving Patient Outcomes” to examine the importance of access to telehealth services, how utilization of telehealth services changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, how access to broadband impacted the public health response, and how to structure future deployment and policy to address the needs of underserved communities.
“Telehealth Read More
LANL Space Scientist Vania Jordanova Named American Geophysical Union Fellow
Vania Jordanova is named fellow by the American Geophysical Union. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Vania Jordanova, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Space Science and Applications group, has been named fellow by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Jordanova is among 59 new fellows this year who will be honored at the AGU Fall Meeting. Since 1962, AGU has elected fewer than 0.1 percent of its members to join this prestigious group of individuals.
“Vania’s work has played a pivotal role in the development of techniques to predict space weather and protect valuable space assets from damaging Read More
Gov. Lujan Grisham Statement In Celebration Of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
From the Office of the Governor:
SANTA FE — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following statement Monday in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day:
“Today, we celebrate in solidarity with indigenous peoples and honor the rich culture and history of New Mexico’s first citizens. Tribal nations are an integral part of our state’s multicultural identity, making valuable and unique contributions to New Mexican life and to our nation. Over the past year and a half, Native communities have served as models for the world of what it means Read More
Jimenez: Despite Oil Boom, State Must Diversify Revenue Sources
By JAMES JIMENEZ
Executive Director
New Mexico Voices for Children
ALBUQUERQUE — While the state is currently flush with revenue from the booming oil and gas markets, as well as federal recovery funding, one advocacy group is recommending that lawmakers not lose sight of the need to diversify the state’s revenue sources in order to protect future budgets.
A policy brief, released today by New Mexico Voices for Children (NMVC), outlines the top five reasons revenue diversification is necessary for the state’s long-term fiscal sustainability and ability to invest in programs crucial to family Read More