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Black Tree Mesa

Black Tree Mesa

Master of Landscape Architecture student, Natalie Marie Schneider, sketching and writing at dawn at Standing Black Tree Mesa.

Lay of the land

Lay of the land

Civil Engineering Professor Mark Stone flying a drone over Standing Black Tree Mesa to create photogrammetric topography.

Collecting samples

Collecting samples

MLA students from China, Yu Zhou and Sunanda Sharmin and Alina Comacho from Costa Rica, working with Ph.D. Civil Engineering student Cherie DeVore on surveying and collecting plant samples for testing on Standing Black Tree Mesa.

Landscape Architecture 503

Landscape Architecture 503

Landscape Architecture 503 Fall 2017 with our host, Edith Hood, (far left) of Red Water Pond Road Community, the morning after our camping experience on Standing Black Tree Mesa, the envisioned site of an off the grid Diné community.

As a native community faces relocation, UNM designs an off-the-grid solution

By Vanessa Tan April 02, 2018

Categories: Front Page

Tags: OVPR Office of the Vice President for Research civil engineering UNM School of Architecture and Planning

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