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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Rio Grande Valley"”.
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Critical regionalism in the Rio Grande Valley: A single family housing development
… Context Statement: McAllen is located in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the more culturally rich areas of Texas, which is currently growing very rapidly. Due to the rapid growth rate development pushes forward with little if any advancement of regional design or respect for traditional cultural …
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ON THE CUSP OF INVISIBILITY: THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, MARGINALIZED STUDENTS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SPACES
… the classroom, and the archives. The Lower Río Grande Valley, the site of the study, is located at the Southernmost end of Texas, and is situated between the almost 2,000-mile-long geopolitical border spanning from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California and the internal checkpoints that run …
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Envisioning the Farms of the Future: In Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture in the Rio Grande valley
… an individual farm in the context of the central Rio Grande valley. Using historical sources about New Mexican agriculture, contemporary scientific literature and interviews with practicing farmers in the region, it develops a vision for the shape that farms must take in order to sustain …
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Texas disaster recovery capacity : the impacts of leadership structures on local resilience
… models being employed. Communities in the Rio Grande Valley and Bastrop County are now administering multiple housing recovery efforts through assorted levels of government and community organization. By documenting and analyzing the structure of leadership in each program through …
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Obsidian procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico
… the Mogollon Highlands to the southwest, and the Rio Abajo region (or Lower Rio Grande Valley) to the east. New projects in the Gallinas Mountains area have sought to better understand how its extensive Pueblo period occupations interacted with the surrounding regions. The following research uses …
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Quantifying the contribution of bank storage due to an alteration in stream stage
… The study was conducted on a site in the Rio Grande floodplain in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This site has been the focus of two recent studies which aided in the understanding of the system, and they have both yielded data that was utilized in the model development and calibration of this …
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Latinos and the Natural Environment Along the United States-Mexico Border
… lands. In particular, not only does the Texas Rio Grande Valley Region in the United States (U.S.), on the U.S.-Mexico border, offer critical habitat important to North American migratory species, the area also provides substantial agricultural goods (i.e., sugarcane, sorghum, melons, onions, …
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Understanding Wind Energy Impacts on Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
… ha in Starr County, Texas, part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley region. For my first study I estimated bat fatality rates at Los Vientos using a novel fatality estimator and reported a moderate to high fatality rate, in which Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) were the most …
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The Plan of San Diego: A Border Conspiracy
No abstract prepared.
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Modeling riparian groundwater depth as a function of river flow for the Rio Grande at Albuquerque, NM
Riparian corridor ecological health is strongly tied to river streamflow. As climate change threatens to significantly reduce monthly streamflows in semi-arid regions, riparian groundwater will be similarly reduced, impacting native and non-native flora. This paper presents a geographic information …