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Border Governor's Conference: March 26-27, 2009, San
Diego, CA
The Border 2012 Border States Climate Change Workshop,
April 22-23, 2009, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
10th Annual
Meeting on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements:
July14,
2009 Chihuahua, Mexico
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From
the latest issue of the FCC newsletter:
Masked Bobwhite Bi-National Recovery
Collaboration
Early settlers to the Southwest fueled the rumors of the
existence of a strikingly handsome quail with a black
throat and bright cinnamon breast. This secretive and
little known bird, the masked bobwhite quail (Colinus
virginianus ridwayi), was not identified and named
until the late 1880’s. Sadly, shortly after its
discovery, the destruction of its grassland habitat by
cattle grazing eliminated this quail from southern
Arizona by the early 1900’s. Fortunately, masked
bobwhites survived in the Mexican state of Sonora.….
More...
Las
Californias Binational Conservation Initative-- a
biodiversity hotspot
Along
the western frontier of the U.S.-Mexico border—where
California and Baja California meet—is a place of unique
natural beauty and cultural richness. The center of a
global biodiversity hotspot, this region named Las
Californias
harbors ecosystems and species that occur nowhere else
on Earth.
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U.S. - Mexico Border Environmental Health
Initiative
The USGS is
creating a bi-national database for the U.S.-Mexico border
region that
integrates mapping, demographic, water and biological
contaminants, public health, and geologic data for both
sides of the border.
Update:
The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Geography
and Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de
Estadísica y Geografía (INEGI) are collaborating on an
improved seamless elevation model for the border region
and all of Mexico..More....
The
Initiative has a new map of the U.S.
Federal lands and Mexican
protected areas in the the border region.
Geospatial and
environmental scientific datasets are available to download
from both U.S. and Mexican governmental agencies and include
data on cities, colonias, binational geology, land use and
land cover, and aquifers, among others.
These databases are invaluable tools for monitoring the
environmental response to anthropogenic and climate
variability changes on the landscape. |
