Fifth Annual Symposium
Recent research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental
Watershed (WGEW) and the
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We would like to announce the fifth annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium. The objectives of the symposium are to share recent results of scientific research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) and the University of Arizona Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER), to encourage future research activities at the WGEW and the SRER, and to promote the WGEW and the SRER as outdoor scientific laboratories.
The Symposium will feature invited speakers presenting either recent research on the WGEW or SRER or new reflections on earlier work conducted at either site. There will be time for questions from the audience, which will be made up of federal agency and university researchers, students, and stakeholders from southern Arizona.
UPDATED: See our Photo Gallery from the 2008 RISE! (credit Mark Heitlinger)
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00-9:05 |
Mitch McClaran andSusan Moran |
RISE Welcome |
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9:05-9:10 |
Mary
Nichols |
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9:10-9:15 |
David Breshears |
Update: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) |
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9:15-9:20 |
Mitch McClaran |
Update: Livestock Grazing Management Program on SRER |
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9:20-9:25 |
Jake
Weltzin |
Update: USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) |
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9:30-9:50 |
Russ Scott |
Taking the pulse of a mesquite savanna on the Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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9:50-10:10 |
Rapid carbon-exchange responses of intact desert grassland to a simulated rainfall pulse |
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10:10-10:30 |
Pierre Deviche |
Environmental controls on rufus-winged sparrow biology and behavior |
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10:30-11:00 |
Poster introductions |
Poster abstracts presented by poster authors |
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11:00-1:00 |
Poster Session |
Authors will be with their posters in the hall outside the conference room |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch w/ Posters |
Provided at the meeting; included in RISE registration fee |
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1:00-1:15 |
Peter Gierlach (Petey Mesquitey) KXCI Radio |
Thank You Jack Kerouac: Observations from life in a semiarid ecosystem |
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1:20-1:40 |
Heather Throop (NMSU) and Steve Archer
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Shrub encroachment, land management and litter decomposition |
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1:40-2:00 |
Jeff Stone
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Erosion processes and the loamy upland state and transition model, S.E. Arizona |
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2:00-2:20 |
Cecil
Schwalbe |
Frog Wars! Metapopulation response of the Chiricahua leopard frog to bullfrog removal |
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2:20-2:30 |
Discussion |
All speakers and poster authors will be in attendance |
POSTERS
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P1 |
Phil Heilman, USDA-ARS SWRC |
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P2 |
Jennifer Davison, OALS |
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P3 |
Michele Cavanaugh, UA SNR |
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P4 |
Greg Barron-Gafford, UA EEB |
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P5 |
Jean McLain, USDA-ARS ALARC |
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P6 |
Lisa Ebbs, HHMI-NMSU |
Spatial Patterns of Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen in Mesquite Coppice Dunes |
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P7 |
Wade Leitner, BirdWorks LLC |
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P8 |
Julia Fonseca, Pima County |
Change in Wetland Cover, 1992-2001, Pima County, Arizona |
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P9 |
Kimberly Franklin, UA SNR |
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P10 |
Ashley Shepherd, UA SNR |
Differences in Buffelgrass abundance between wash and upland habitats, Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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P11 |
Averill Cate, UA SNR |
The Santa Rita Experimental Range Historic Study Area Database Search Application |
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P12 |
Grey Nearing, UA ABE |
Likelihood calibration of a soil moisture model with radar backscatter to account for speckle |
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P13 |
Eva Osmer, UA SNR |
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P14 |
Chris McDonald, UA SNR |
Using a big tool box: Managing Lehmann lovegrass using multiple techniques |
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P15 |
Lisa Benton, UA SNR |
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P16 |
Juan C Villegas, UA SNR |
Ecohydrological consequences of vegetation cover and seasonality: trends in soil evaporation from a mesquite-dominated gradient at Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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P17 |
Daniel B. Hewins, NMSU |
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P18 |
Viktor Polyakov, USDA-ARS SWRC |
Tracing sediment movement on semi-arid watershed using Rare Earth Elements |
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P19 |
Anna Van Devender, UA SNR |
Does High Xylem Conductance Give Prosopis velutina an Advantage? |
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P20 |
Steve Woods, UA SNR |
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RISE Organizing Committee: Mark
Heitlinger, Mitch McClaran, Susan Moran |
Undefined Acronyms:ABE: Agricultural and Bioscience
Engineering |