Archive for November 2006

Keeping the Rain Out

Evaluating 60-day drought survival in turfgrass
By Danielle Supercinski
The Rio Grande Basin Initiative helped establish a new, state of the art facility for determining the 60-day drought survival of various established turfgrass species and cultivars to provide background data for a San Antonio Water System (SAWS) ordinance that will go into effect in January 2007.
“The Rio [...]

November 3rd, 2006 | Posted in RGBI
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Financial support role of NMSU bookkeepers
By Nargiza Rakhimova
Bookkeepers play an important role working in partnership with other staff and faculty on sponsored accounts. Often in daily program activities, however, our bookkeepers are often ‘left out of the loop.’ Craig Runyan, New Mexico RGBI project coordinator, said it is “sometimes difficult for bookkeepers to establish a [...]

November 2nd, 2006 | Posted in RGBI
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NMSU “water guy”
By Leeann DeMouche
On the New Mexico State University campus R. Craig Runyan is known as the “Water Guy.” Since 1990, he has served as Extension water quality specialist in the NMSU Extension Plant Sciences Department, and currently devotes his time as Water Task Force Coordinator and state director of the Southern Region Watershed [...]

November 1st, 2006 | Posted in RGBI