NM Tech Researchers and Bosque Revegetation Project
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech geoscientists currently are conducting a study of soil and groundwater salinities at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, hoping to provide essential information to habitat managers who are starting to revegetate some of the 4,000 acres of the refuge which were burned during last spring's bosque wildfires. View Entire Article »
Bowman: Effects of Farming on Groundwater
By George Zamora
A groundwater research project being conducted in northern Socorro County by a New Mexico Tech hydrologist is determining how current agricultural practices impact groundwater quality and is shedding more light on related water-quality issues around the state and the Southwest. View Entire Article »
EMRTC To Study Aircraft Safety
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) was awarded a $1.2 million contract by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to begin developing a facility where researchers can study and analyze various effects and aspects of explosions which may occur in wide-body aircraft. View Entire Article »
Detecting Land Mines
By George Zamora
As U. S. troops and other NATO forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina are attempting to safely remove some of the estimated six million land mines buried throughout the battlefield, a New Mexico Tech research center is testing and evaluating new methods and devices aimed at making the momentous task of land-mine detection and removal safer, cheaper, and easier in Bosnia and the rest of the world. View Entire Article »
Seismic Waves Shed Light on Magma Body
By George Zamora
Geophysicists at New Mexico Tech have been using refinements in data analysis and an expanded seismic-monitoring network to redraw the boundaries and origins of a thin, yet extensive, horizontal layer of molten rock that lies about 11 miles below the surface of the middle Rio Grande valley, between Socorro and Bernardo. View Entire Article »
