News

2025 ASPIRE Open House
Posted: Nov 11, 2025 - 04:00pm
The ASPIRE community gathered for the annual Open House on Monday, November 10, 2025 in the PAÍS lobby. Students, faculty, and partners came together for an afternoon of research, conversation, and celebration. Eight graduate students presented...read more
2025 Image Contest Winners
Posted: Nov 11, 2025 - 12:00am
We’re excited to share the winning entries from this year’s ASPIRE Image Contest, highlighting the creativity and scientific perspectives of our students. Md. Zayed Abdur Razzak (EPS PhD student)Zayed’s winning photo capture...read more

ASPIREational Talk Will Meija Garcia
Posted: Apr 01, 2025 - 04:00pm
Hello ASPIRE community, Please join us for the upcoming ASPIREational Talk and Social Hour on April 2nd, 4-5pm, at Draft and Table in the UNM Student Union Building, featuring a short research talk from William Mej...read more
Welcome Dr. Tyler Mackey!
Posted: Nov 22, 2024 - 12:00pm
We’d like to welcome Tyler Mackey to ASPIRE and congratulate him on being an ASPIRE faculty member! Tyler’s research explores the relationship between microbial ecosystems and sedimentary deposits past and present. Currently, he is focus...read more
Welcome Dr. Marisa Repasch!
Posted: Nov 22, 2024 - 12:00pm
We want to welcome Marisa Repasch to ASPIRE and congratulate her on being an ASPIRE faculty member! Marisa is a faculty member of the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. She joined UNM as an assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Pla...read more
Archived News
- Dr. Yolanda Lin - ASPIRE's New Director!, Apr 16, 2024
- Spring 2024 ASPIREational Talk Dates, Jan 25, 2024
- Yolanda Lin leads new paper, Jan 11, 2024
- ASPIRE's Xi Gong co-authors new paper, Dec 17, 2023
- Yolanda Lin contributed authorship to AGU work, Dec 15, 2023
- Alex Webster presents at AGU, Dec 13, 2023
- Alex Webster co-authors paper!, Dec 07, 2023
- 2023 ASPIRE Open House Winners, Nov 08, 2023
- ASPIRE Faculty Member Eric Lindsey Awarded NSF Grant, Nov 08, 2023
- Olumide Adedeji, Ph.D. candidate wins Award, Oct 27, 2023
- Newly Funded Award led by ASPIRE Faculty, Sep 27, 2023
- Lindsay Worthington Women in STEM Award, Sep 27, 2023
- Alex Webster DOE Grant, Sep 27, 2023
- 2023 Image Contest, Sep 15, 2023
- ASPIRE Open House Nov. 9, Sep 14, 2023
- ASPIREational Talk Series Fall 2023, Sep 13, 2023
- Xi Gong on UNM's Newsroom report, Mar 10, 2023
- ASPIREational Talk Series, Jan 01, 2023
- Geography Awareness Week, Nov 01, 2022
- ASPIRE Student Admitted by CV4Ecology Summer School, Mar 02, 2022
- Student Competition Winners at SWAAG 2021, Oct 18, 2021
- Drones for Ducks Launches on Zooniverse!, May 10, 2021
- Rowan Converse Places Second in AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Honors Paper Competition, Apr 12, 2021
- Dr. Yan Lin to Lead Newly Awarded NIH P50 Environmental Health Disparities Research Project, Feb 05, 2021
- R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography Opens!, Nov 17, 2020
- Ducks and Drones Featured in Discover Magazine, Apr 20, 2020
- UNM and NMSU Announce Joint Geography PhD Program, Feb 08, 2020
- ASPIRE Opens!, Jan 13, 2020
- Liping Yang Joins UNM Geography, ASPIRE, Jan 01, 2020
- ASPIRE at the 2019 Tribal GIS Conference, Nov 18, 2019
