| Karam, Abe | National Ecological Observatory Network: Operations and Opportunities |
| Holifield Collins, Chandra | NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Validation Experiment |
| Walbridge, Mark | The Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network |
| Archer, Steve | Imagining a new Long-term Ecological Research site for Arid Lands |
| Papuga, Shirley | Ecohydrology and Watershed Management on the Santa Rita and in the Southwest |
| Nichols, Mary | How Do Channels Migrate Uphill? Observations from the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed |
| Barron Gafford, Greg | Sensor Technologies and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) to Measure Ecosystem Processes in Semi-arid Environments |
| Ponce-Campos, Guillermo | Linking Vegetation Productivity, Climate and Grazing Activities in Southeast Arizona |
| Meko, Dave | Tree-Ring Record of Hydrologic Drought in the Southwest |