16th Annual Symposium
Recent research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental
Watershed (WGEW) and the
ARS and University of Arizona researchers measure surface roughness as part of study on the erodibility of desert grasslands within the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (Photo: USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center).
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The 16th annual Research Insights in Semiarid
Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium will be held Saturday, 26 October 2019, 8:30 AM
to 3:00 PM on the University of Arizona campus. The objectives of the
symposium are to share recent results of 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 recent or on-going research on the WGEW, the
SRER or other outdoor laboratories in the region. There will be time for
questions from the audience, which will consist of federal agency, NGO
(non-governmental organization) and university researchers, students, and
stakeholders from southern Arizona.
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Dye tracers are used by ARS and University of Arizona researchers to measure the velocity of overland flow from simulated runoff events at the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (Photo: Justin Johnson, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment).
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration
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9:00-9:15 |
Mitch McClaran
UA SNRE,
Phil Heilman
USDA ARS SWRC
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RISE Welcome
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9:15-9:25 |
Abe Karam |
Opportunities and updates with NEON the National Ecological
Observatory Network |
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9:30-9:45 |
Emile Elias |
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9:50-10:05 |
John Humphries |
The Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Project as a USDA ARS Grand Challenge Project |
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10:10-10:40 |
Dave Bertelsen |
Vegetation Changes in the Finger
Rock Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains 1984-2019 |
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10:45-11:00 |
Mike Duniway |
Drought, land-use, and the
rangelands of the Colorado Plateau |
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11:05-11:20 |
Larry Fisher |
Using indicators of watershed
health to guide management decision making |
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11:25- |
Poster Introductions |
Presenters give a 1-minute
advertisement of their poster |
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11:30-1:15 |
Poster Session
Lunch w/ Posters |
Provided at the meeting; included
in RISE registration |
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1:15-1:30 |
Betsy Arnold |
Distributions and importance of
soil borne microbes for seeds at the Santa Rita Experimental
Range |
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1:35-1:50 |
Elise Gornish |
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1:55-2:10 |
Enrique Vivoni |
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2:15-2:30 |
Adam Naito |
Brush management and ecosystem
services on southern Arizona rangelands: tradeoffs and
unintended consequences |
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2:35-2:50 |
Erik Andersen |
Shrub encroachment restructures
avian communities in semiarid grasslands |
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2:50 |
Poster Awards |
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POSTERS
(*=graduate and **=undergraduate in poster contest)
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1 |
Amy Gill |
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2 |
Joel Biederman |
A New Rainfall Manipulation Facility in the
Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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3* |
Blake Steiner |
Unravelling Ecosystem Carbon Uptake into its
Component Plant Species Contributions |
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4 |
Robert Wojcikiewicz |
Quantifying connectivity thresholds for shrub
encroachment in the Chihuahuan Desert |
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5* |
Justin Johnson |
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6 |
Andrew Fullhart |
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7* |
Elizbeth VanderLeeuw |
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8 |
Alanna Zubler |
Arid-Land Cotton Growth Analysis Using Drone
Image Classification |
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9** |
Madeline Melichar |
Characterizing UAV flight practices for
structure from motion (SFM) data collection of guayule |
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RISE Organizing Committee: Steve Archer, Phil Heilman, Mitch McClaran, Jason Williams
sarcher@email.arizona.edu
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Undefined Acronyms:ARS: Agricultural Research Service |