Participants will gather at 12:50 p.m. for transportation off-site. Meet at the loading zone in front of the parking garage near the Student Union; there will be two small yellow school buses - see map (Acrobat (PDF) 232kB Jul11 17).

The Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) uses citizen science to engage students in real world questions through collecting and analyzing data in the Rio Grande bosque. This workshop will focus on engaging students in science by enabling them to answer questions relevant to their community through collecting, analyzing and interpreting their own data. Several types of data, including precipitation, arthropods, vegetation and weather are easily studied at school, in student's neighborhoods or in natural areas. During the workshop participants will take a field trip to the Bosque (riparian forest along the Rio Grande) in Albuquerque to collect data on groundwater, precipitation and vegetation then return to the classroom to practice analyzing student collected data through graphing and visual representations and learn to interpret their meaning. BEMP educators will provide teachers with resources to find data sets they can contribute to and use in their classrooms and information about citizen science projects for students and ways to be involved in BEMP.