Site Number/Name:

GFL No.:

Name: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

State, Country: New Mexico, USA

Priority: 1

Site designation(s): LTER

Other sponsoring/interested agencies, if any:

Location and size:

USGS Quad: La Joya (Center), Ladron Peak, La Joya NW, Abeytas, Black Butte, Becker, Silver Creek, San Acacia, Becker SW, Cerro Montosa, San Lorenzo Spring, Lemitar, Mesa Del Oso, Sierra De La cruz, Sierra Larga North

Center: 34 21 25 N – 106 47 55 W

NE corner: 34 25 48 N – 106 30 48 W

SE corner: 34 11 20 N – 106 30 33 W

SW corner: 34 10 50 N – 107 04 59 W

NW corner: 34 25 18 N – 107 05 20 W

Center elevation: 1542 M

Size (N-S x E-W): 53 x 27 km

Resource to be monitored:

Environmental and climatic change, landscape dynamics, population dynamics, semiarid watershed ecology and biosphere – atmosphere interactions.

Detailed description, management issues (e.g. ecosystem represented):

Monitoring, characterization and modeling of multiple intersections of different communities and biomes including: subalpine – mixed conifer forest/meadow, riparian cottonwood forest, dry mountainland, grassland, cold desert, hot desert, Great Basin Shrub and short grass steppe and tall grass swales.

Frequency and time(s) of collection: [six-week window]

May and September or seasonally.

Resolution/scale:

Varies

Special characteristics (spectral values, thermal anomalies, underwater/ground, etc.):

N/A

Existing maps of area (digital?):

See http://sevilleta.unm.edu/data/archive/gis/

MEDEA sponsor (active/passive):

Sponsoring agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF agency point of contact: [Alan M. Gaines, Scott L. Collins]

NSF site point of contact (current security clearance, if any):

[John Vande Castle, Security Clearance YES