Date

Friday, January 12, 2024

Location

Skysong

Keynote speakers

Michelle Hale and Margaret Stanley

CAP service awards

Jeffrey Haight, Michelle Hale, Charles Redman, and Mark Watkins.

Posters

Ecosystem structure and function

Mariah E. Beltran, and Dan L. Childers. Exploring Tres Rios Wetlands through Soil and Plant Nutrient Dynamics. (pdf)

Ava L. Claus and M. Andrew Johnston. Capturing Carabid Diversity Over Time: The Necessity for Long-Term Sampling.

Alexander Fenlon, Kevin Cortés-Hernandez, Matthew Prebus, Nathan Upham, Damien Riviera, and Dakota Rowsey. Species Boundaries of Montane Forest Peromyscus of the Santa Catalina Mountains (Rodentia: Cricetidae).

Sophia Koutsogiannis, Dakota Rowsey, and Nathan Upham. Bringing Dark Mammalian Trait Data to Light Through Standardized Digitization. (pdf)

Kevin J. McGraw and Reilly S. Hammond. Comparative Ecophysiology of Doves in the Desert: Impacts of Season, Sex, and Habitat Urbanization.

Luke Ramsey-Wiegmann, Dan Childers, Heather Bateman, Liz Makings, and Heather Green. Combining Art and Ecology to Understand Changing Biotic Communities of the Urban Salt River. (pdf)

Derek A. Uhey, Richard W. Hofstetter, Stevan Earl, Jessie Dwyer, Jerry Holden, Tiffany Sprague, and Helen Rowe. Living on the edge: The Sensitivity of Arthropods to Development and Climate along an Urban-Wildland Interface in the Sonoran Desert. (pdf)

N. Upham, D. Rivera, L. Zamora Chavez, G. De Leon, M. Pierce, S. Hall, J. Baez, M. Jones, D. Rowsey. Investigating the island biodiversity of Arizona small mammals and their pathogens.

Jonna Urban, Gilma J. De Leon, Christopher Livingston, Ruby Sainz, Laura D. Steger, Kelsey Yule, Luisa Zamora Chavez, and Rosie Liao. Exploring the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository Herptile Collections and Data.

Urban climate and air quality

Mary J. Ferguson, Enrique Vivoni, Erinanne Saffell. Drivers and Trends in Pan Evaporation for an Arid Urban Environment.

Peter Price, Paul Coseo, and Arianne Middel. Understanding the Ecological Design Benefits and Limitations of Rooftop Green Spaces to Reduce Heat Exposure for Vulnerable Residents. (pdf)

Xiangmin Sun, Enrique R. Vivoni, Eli R. Perez-Ruiz, Quincy Stewart, and Stevan R. Earl. Examining Long-term Dynamics and Budgets of CO₂ Flux in a Suburban Community in Phoenix, Arizona. (pdf)

Adapting to city life

Brian Ballantyne and J. Chadwick Johnson. Phenotypic Change Across Time in Fire Ants (S. xyloni) Due to Growing Impervious Surface Area in Phoenix, AZ.

Kevin J. McGraw and Reilly S. Hammond. Comparative Ecophysiology of Doves in the Desert: Impacts of Season, Sex, and Habitat Urbanization.

Olivia L. Nguyen, Daniel L. Childers, Jeffrey Haight, and Jesse S. Lewis. The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Behavior and Wildlife Populations along the Gradient of Urbanization. (pdf)

Sarah Polekoff and Pierre Deviche. Meta-Analysis of Oxidative Stress in Urban Birds. (pdf)

Kayla Tarr, Mikhail Chester, Daniel Childers, and Abigail York. A Social Ecological Technological Analysis of Urban Ecological Infrastructure for Stormwater Management in Phoenix, AZ. (pdf)

Nadia K. Upah and Pierre J. Deviche. Physiological Effects of Heat Exposure in a Native Bird.

Joscelyn Wooden, Rosie Liao, Kelsey Yule, Jesse E. Taylor, and Laura D. Steger. Building the National Ecological Observatory Network’s Mammalian Parasite Collection.

Governance and just transitions

Alexis Kelley, Alex Stephenson, Chloe Zhan, Gouri Nair, Iliana Rodriguez, Jackeline (Jack) Santiago-Aguiluz, Jaclyn Rodriguez, Jennifer Mejia Jimenez, Lian Smith, Noah Monjaraz, Priscilla (Nalani) Roza, Samiksha Varahagiri, Rae Ostman, Nicholas Pilarski, Nicholas Weller. Make Games, Save the Planet: A Teen-developed Video Game about Drought and Sustainability.

Mary Munoz Encinas, Jennifer Vanos, and Melissa Guardaro. An Overview of HeatReady Initiatives – Addressing Extreme Heat Challenges.

Haden Pittson and Kelli Larson. In the Eyes of the Beholder: An Examination of Park Equity through the Lens of Resident Satisfaction.

Environment and human wellbeing

Mariah E. Beltran, Kelli L. Larson. Demographic Influences on Attitudes toward Bats and Other Pollinators. (pdf)

Timara Crichlow, Paul Coseo, C. Tyler DesRoches, Rob Melnick, and Diane Pataki. Neighborhood Tree Satisfaction for Environmental Justice. (pdf)

Zoe Gentry, Arshonne Cázares, Savage Cree Hess, Michele Clark, Liliana Caughman, Michelle Hale, and Nancy Grimm. Living Lands: Co-creating a Storytelling Game to Nurture River Relations and Language-Learning Along the Salt River. (pdf)

Josh Gilman and Jianguo Wu. Identifying Broken Linkages Coupling Water Availability and Dryland Urbanization for Sustainability: The Case of the Phoenix Metropolitan region, USA.

Carter Henry, N. Doud, and Kelli L. Larson. Residents’ attitudes toward distinct wildlife: The role of Wildlife Values and Desert Affinity.

Kevin J. McGraw and Reilly S. Hammond. Comparative Ecophysiology of Doves in the Desert: Impacts of Season, Sex, and Habitat Urbanization.

Jianguo (Jingle) Wu. Landscape Sustainability Science: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Studying and Improving the Urban-Rural Regional System. (pdf)

Qinnan Zhu and Kelli Larson. Multi-scalar Drivers of Residential Vegetation Changes in Metropolitan Phoenix, AZ.