Above: Guided tour at Franklin Mountains State Park.

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Cactus wren by Robert Shantz

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The Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition Board of Directors meets every other month in Las Cruces and El Paso.  For details on our next meeting contact any board member below.
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Board of Directors

President: Rink Somerday
rink@asombro.org

Vice President: Diane Perez
*Secretary: Kelly Serio
Treasurer: Virginia Galarza
Director: Sal Quintanilla
Director: Rick LoBello
*Director: Jennifer Huntsberger
*Director: Judy Ackerman

Advisory Board

*Dorothy Baca
Kathy Kraften
*Alex Mares
*Jorge Molinar

Dr. Carl Lieb
University of Texas El Paso
Biology Department
(915) 747-6985
http://www.academics.utep.edu/biology
Overview: The Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biological Sciences and undergraduate majors in Biological Sciences and in Microbiology. It also contributes to undergraduate interdisciplinary majors in Life and Earth Sciences and in Natural Sciences.

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