The vast majority of earth’s species are microorganisms. Recent advances in measuring and visualizing microbial diversity in nature have prompted a new era of microbial research, one that builds on the foundations of well established plant and animal biodiversity research. SFI External Professor...

UNM has been conducting field studies at Chaco since 2004 with the goal of improving our understanding of socioeconomic organization and change during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850 to 1150). Our initial focus was re-opening trenches originally excavated in the 1920s at Pueblo Bonito in order to...