An annual Year-in-Review is compiled by the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) highlighting both its general and research news and feature stories across campus during the course of the calendar year.
The scientists at The University of New Mexico have conducted various research in this 2024 Research Year-in-review. The research ranges from sea to space, including a submerged bridge in the sea that indicates human beings were in Mallorca at least 1,000 years sooner than previously thought. The research also included tomatoes sent into space, studies high-altitude ecosystems highlighting the impacts of climate change, a new look at the dangers of uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and also discovered a new “giant” hummingbird species. Furthermore, a Nobel Prize winner talked about breathtaking pictures using preliminary findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is based on the telescope’s capacity to detect infrared light.
Below is a select list based on the top news stories of 2024 featuring a number of highlighted research. Click on the headline to read the full story for each listing.
Influence of climate change on food webs in high-latitude ecosystems
Latest research from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, The University of New Mexico’s Center for Stable Isotopes (CSI), the UNM Museum of Southwestern Biology, and the University of Texas at Austin adds to the growing body of literature documenting the impact on food webs caused by climate change by studying the influence it has had in high-latitude ecosystems
Researchers at UNM team up with University of Wisconsin-Madison to send tomatoes into space
The 2019 green chile launch is just one instance of the strange and uncommon plants and vegetables that New Mexico researchers and partner institutions have sent into space. Next week, UNM Biology Professor David Hanson and his colleagues will send tomatoes into space.
John Mather, a Nobel Prize winner presents UNM audience with science and stunning images
The greatest telescope ever created took off from Europe’s Spaceport on an Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana, South America, on Christmas morning in 2021, representing eight billion people today, 10,000 future observers, 20,000 engineers and technicians, 100 scientists worldwide, and three space agencies.
Forever chemicals reach extraordinary levels in wildlife at Holloman Airforce Base
In a recent study published in Environmental Research, a group of scientists from the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) at The University of New Mexico discovered very high levels of chemical pollution in wild mammals and birds at Holloman Air Force Base, close to Alamogordo, N.M.