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Events
Opening Reception
(Evening event, Wednesday, May 24th)
The ice-breaker reception will be held at the nearby New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
The reception will be from 6:30-8:30 pm and the exhibits will remain open for the group.
Cost: Included with registration
Banquet
(Evening event, Thursday, May 25th)
Don't miss this chance to network and meet new colleagues while enjoying
drinks at the pre-banquet reception, followed by a full course dinner,
and then finish the evening off by dancing until midnight! These events
will be on Thursday, May 25, 2006 in the beautiful Franciscan Room
at the Hotel
Albuquerque. We have booked live musical entertainment for dancing
after the banquet. The musical performers are Syd Masters and the Swing
Riders
(sydmasters.com),
an award winning 3-piece band that specializes in Vintage Western Cowboy
Swing. In addition to being
excellent musicians the band members have a unique brand of humor to
keep everyone well entertained. The reception will begin at approx.
6:30 pm, the
banquet will follow at 7:30 pm, and music and dancing will be from
9:00 pm until midnight.
Cost: $60 per person
Field Trips
Santa Fe (Full Day)
Come spend a day in Santa Fe -- Hop aboard a van for a full
day of museums, dining, and shopping at Museum Hill and Historic Old Town
in Santa Fe. The bus will leave the Hotel Albuquerque at 8:30 a.m. for Museum Hill where you will be able
to explore four of Santa Fe’s most prestigious museums full of art,
history and culture of the Native American Southwest, the Spanish colonial
past, and folk traditions from around the world. The Museums on the Hill
include the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (www.spanishcolonial.org); the
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (www.miaclab.org); the Museum of International
Folk Art (www.moifa.org); and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
(www.wheelwright.org). The van will shuttle visitors between Museum
Hill and Old Town each hour and leave Museum Hill at 4 p.m. to return to
the Hotel Albuquerque around 5 p.m. Museum admissions range from $5-7 for
non-residents with the exception of the Wheelwright Museum which is free.
A 4-day pass can be purchased for all of the Museum Hill museums plus the
Palace of the Governors and the Fine Arts Museum located in Old Town at the
International Folk Art Museum for $12. Lunch is on your own.
Capacity: 11 participants FULL!
Cost: $30 per person
Museum admissions
and lunch are not included.
Valles Caldera National Preserve (Full Day)
www.vallescaldera.gov
 Take
this opportunity to visit one of the most unique public lands in the
United States. Formerly a private ranch, the Valles Caldera was designated
as a National Preserve in 2000. The 89,000 acre preserve rests inside
an ancient caldera that formed 1.12 million years ago following a volcanic
explosion
and the subsequent collapse of a volcanic cone that produced the Bandelier
Tuff, in the beautiful Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. In a unique experiment
in public land management, the preserve is also a sustainable working
cattle ranch. The grasslands of the caldera support the second largest
elk
herd
in New Mexico, over 60 species of birds breed on the Preserve, and
vistas include volcanic domes and Redondo Peak at 11,254 feet in elevation.
We will
learn about the operation and the natural history of the preserve on
a short hike with one of the VCNP scientists. For the trip, hiking
boots or other sturdy footwear are recommended. Field trip fee includes
round trip coach bus service from the Hotel Albuquerque, an onboard
guide for the trip
from Albuquerque through the Jemez Mountains, entrance fees, and a
box lunch.
Capacity: 52 participants
Cost: $60 per person
Basin and range topography of the Southwest is well known for displaying
a series of life zones over relatively short distances, with higher
elevations representing cool, moist islands surrounded by warm, dry
desert landscapes.
Our trip will visit each of the life zones found across an elevation
gradient in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque. The trip will start
in Albuquerque
at 1,500 m (5,000 ft) and go to the summit of the Sandia Mountains
at 3,000 m (10,000 ft). We will make a series of brief 30 minute to
one hour stops in each
of the following life zones: grassland, juniper, pinon-juniper,
ponderosa pine, mixed-conifer, and spruce-fir. Guides will
first briefly introduce the natural history features at each stop,
then participants will be free to explore on their own. Spring flowers,
butterflies, and birds should be abundant.
This will be a full day trip, leaving the Hotel Albuquerque at 9 am on a
tour bus, and returning at 5 pm. Transportation, lunches and water
will be provided, along with two guides. Recommended items to bring:
binoculars, camera,
comfortable walking shoes, layers of clothing for warm to cool weather,
sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat. There are public restrooms at each
stop, and a gift shop and restaurant at the last stop on the summit
of the Sandias.
A recent natural history field guide (including geology and human history)
to the Sandia Mountains is available from the University of New Mexico
Press: http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=10554341316779
Capacity: 45 participants
Cost: $40 per person
 Petroglyph
National Monument contains one of the most impressive collections of
prehistoric Indian rock art in the world. More than 20,000 petroglyphs,
images that are pecked or carved in rock, are found throughout the
17-mile stretch along Albuquerque's West Mesa, a volcanic basalt escarpment
that dominates the city’s western horizon. The petroglyphs are
thought to have been created over a period of 3000 to 5000 years by
native peoples and early Spanish settlers. The bulk of the petroglyphs
consists of Rio Grande Style imagery, some of the most dramatic and
complex in the Southwest. Many of the images are recognizable as animals,
people, brands and crosses; others are more complex. These images,
and associated archeological sites in the Albuquerque area, provide
glimpses into a 12,000 year long story of human life in this area.
This guided tour will visit Rinconada Canyon, which offers insights
to the geologic, cultural and natural resources of the Monument. The
approximately 2.5 mile round trip hike will take you through a journey
of the history of Albuquerque's land and people. For the trip, hiking
boots or other sturdy footwear are recommended, as well as a hat, plenty
of water, and sunscreen. The tour will be guided by the National Monument
Natural Resource Specialist. Transportation provided
from the Hotel Albuquerque to the National Monument.
Capacity: 30 participants
Cost: $25 per person
Museum Tours
Can't make any of the full-day field trips? Then please join us as we tour several museums on the
campus of the University of New Mexico. We will offer behind-the-scenes tours of the Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences' Geology Museum and the Meteorite Museum, and we
will finish at the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB).
A bus will shuttle conference attendees to and from the University of New Mexico. Tour departs from the
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town at 1:00 pm. We will depart from the University of New Mexico at 5:00 pm.
Wednesday afternoon, 24 May (1:00-5:00 pm)
Capacity: 46 FULL!
Time line for museum tours:
Depart Hotel Albuquerque 1:00 pm
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology 1:30-2:20 (Dave Phillips)
Geology Museum 2:30-2:50 and 2:55-3:20 (Barry Kues)
Meteorite Museum 2:30-2:50 and 2:55-3:20 (Horton Newsom)
Museum of Southwestern Biology 3:30-4:30 (MSB staff)
1. Division of Fishes and Amphibians & Reptiles- 3:30 and 4:00
2. Division of Birds and Mammals- 3:30 and 4:00
3. Division of Genomic Resources- 3:30 and 4:00
4. Division of Arthropods- 3:30 and 4:00
5. Herbarium- 3:30 and 4:00
 The
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology offers exhibits and programs relating to cultures around the world,
with a special emphasis on the cultural heritage of the Southwest. Reflecting a broad mission that encompasses the entire
history of humankind, the museum's collections are worldwide in scope, with extensive holdings from throughout North, South, and
Central America, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. With its primary emphasis on the Southwest, the Maxwell is
world-renowned for its holdings from this region. The Maxwell offers to visitors an opportunity to experience the richness of
human lifestyles in all their diverse expressions, providing a setting for both education and enjoyment unique in our state.
 The Meteorite Museum,
as part of the Institute of Meteoritics, is located in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The museum displays many fine
samples of stony, stony iron, and iron meteorites. The 75-square-meter museum is located on the ground floor of Northrop Hall.
 The Geology
Museum, also located on the ground floor of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, provides public exhibits of mineral, fossil,
and rock specimens. Two exhibits focus on world-renowned geologic features in New Mexico -- the Jemez caldera and the Harding pegmatite
mine, and another includes a large dinosaur bone available for close inspection. A separate room contains minerals that fluoresce when
the lights are turned out. Cabinets of new acquisitions (e.g., a pair of dinosaur eggs) are also on display.
The Museum of Southwestern Biology
www.msb.unm.edu
 The Museum of
Southwestern Biology (MSB) contains research collections of vertebrates, arthropods, plants and genomic materials mainly from the
Southwest, Central and South America. The museum's collections are housed in the newly remodeled CERIA (Center for Environmental Research,
Informatics and Art) and span three floors covering a space of 25,900 ft2. The MSB consists of seven divisions including, Amphibians &
Reptiles, Fishes, Arthropods, Birds, Mammals, Genomic Resources, and the Herbarium.
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