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Date

January 10, 2008

Location

Carson Ballroom, Old Main Arizona State University

Posters

Land-use and land-cover changes

Darren M. Ruddell, Sharon L. Harlan, Genevieve Luikart, and Susannah Lerman. Public Park Ecology and Neighborhood Crime: Assessing Resident Perceptions of Crime and Park Quality (pdf)

Hoski Schaafsma, Melissa Kruse, Will Russel, John Briggs, Kate Spielmann, and Sharon Hall. Ancient Agriculture of the Perry Mesa Tradition in Central Arizona: Interpreting Ancient Land-use and Modern Landscapes (pdf)

Kendra D. Busse and Chris A. Martin. Characterization of Microclimates in North Desert Village Sites (pdf)

Alex Buyantuyev, Jianguo Wu, and Yun Ouyang. Effects of Land Cover Transformations on Surface Microclimate along an Urban-Rural Gradient in Phoenix Analyzed with Satellite Data (pdf)

J. Elder, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Anthony Brazel, H. Butler, and Chris Martin. How Evapotranspiration Varies Across Urban Neighborhoods — Application of LUMPS Model (pdf)

Donna A. Hartz, Jay Golden, and Anthony J. Brazel. Heat-Related Morbidity in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona (2001-2006) (pdf)

Cara S. Kiggins and Scott Ingram. Prehistoric Population and Climate Variation in the Agua Fria Watershed of Arizona (pdf)

Chris Martin. Annual Patterns of Below-Ground Thermodynamics and Surface Temperatures at the North Desert Village (pdf)

Chris A. Martin and Kendra D. Busse. Effect of Landscape Design and Irrigation on Summertime Gas Exchange of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs (pdf)

Hannah Mensing and Anthony Brazel. Rural to Urban Temperature Gradients: CAP LTER in Context of the Recent Trends in the Mojave and Sonora Desert Region (pdf)

Fluxes of materials and socio-ecosystem response

Bony Ahmed, Ryan A. Sponseller, Nancy B. Grimm, and Sharon J. Hall. Observing Extracellular Enzyme Activity(EEA) in the Sonoran Desert (pdf)

Elizabeth M. Cook, Sharon J. Hall, and Kelli L. Larson. Residential Landscapes: Synthesis of the Literature and Preliminary Survey Results (pdf)

Daniel A. Gonzales, Jonathan O. Allen, Ryan A. Sponseller, Sharon J. Hall, and Nancy B. Grimm. Atmospheric Dry Deposition of Gaseous and Particulate Nitrogen to Urban-Influenced Sonoran Desert Sites (pdf)

Rebecca Hale, Nathan Toke, Nancy Grimm, and Ramon Arrowsmith. Aridland Urban Hydrology in Phoenix, AZ (pdf)

Hilairy Hartnett, Megan Kelly, and H. Waterman. Biogeochemical Processes in Tempe Town Lake: Trends and Patterns in the Amount and Composition of Dissolved Organic Carbon (pdf)

Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong and Everett Shock. Factors that Contribute to Distribution Patterns of Trace Element in Maricopa County (pdf)

Human control of biodiversity

Alona Bachi and Michael L. Rosenzweig. The Tucson Hummingbird Project: An Experimental Study of Community Ecology and Reconciliation on a City-Wide Scale (http://hummingbirds.arizona.edu) (pdf)

Christofer Bang and Stanley H. Faeth. Variation in Arthropod Diversity, Guild Composition and Abundances along an Urban-Rural Gradient: Nine Years of CAP LTER Monitoring (pdf)

J. Chadwick Johnson, Kathryn Kitchen, Claudia Ibeth Torres, Patricia Trubl, Ashley Gohr, and Melissa Rife. Urban Behavioral Ecology of the Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus): From Solitary Desert Predator to Urban Pest (pdf)

Maya Kapoor and Ann Kinzig The Social and Ecological Construction of Protected Rainforests in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

Kathryn Kitchen and J. Chadwick Johnson. The Effects of Relatedness, Age Differences, and Maternal Investment on Juvenile Cannibalism in the Black Widow Spider, Latrodectus hesperus (pdf)

Susannah Lerman and Paige S. Warren. Foraging Decisions, Bird Community Structure and Residential Landscapes: Finding the Links (pdf)

Jennifer E. Litteral and Jianguo Wu. Effects of Urbanization on Avian Species Richness in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Patterns in Vegetation Remnants (pdf)

Laura Taylor-Taft and Stanley Faeth. Ground Arthropod Diversity at North Desert Village (pdf)

Paige Warren, Susannah Lerman, and Sharon Harlan. Do People Notice Birds? (pdf)

Jean C. Stutz. Urban Tree Health in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area (pdf)

Scott Yabiku, David Casagrande, and Elizabeth Farley-Metzger. Landscape Treatment and Residents’ Satisfaction: Results from Wave 2 of the North Desert Village Social Survey (pdf)

Human dimensions of ecological research

Janet Clemens, Adam Greenwade, Annette Humm-Keen, David Keen, Paul Lucas, Adam Miller, Mary Lu Nunley, Ray Quay, Steve Rossi, and Dale Vieregge. Residential Water Use in Phoenix: Exploring Myths and Realities

Kate J. Darby, Bethany B. Cutts, Christopher G. Boone, and Alexandra Brewis. An Environmental Justice Framework for Analyzing Obesigenic Environments: A GIS Analysis of Walkability, Park Access, and Neighborhood Demographics in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Annie Gustafson, Kelli Larson, Paul Hirt, and Lilah Zautner. An Assessment of Municipal Water Conservation Policy in Greater Phoenix, Arizona, 1980-2007 (pdf)

Gabriel Judkins. Declining Cotton Cultivation in Maricopa County, Arizona: An Examination of Macro and Micro-Scale Driving Forces (pdf)

Elisabeth K. Larson and Charles Perrings. Valuing the Environment in Metropolitan Phoenix (pdf)

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Kelli Larson, and Juan Declet. Opportunities and Challenges to Linking Science and Policy in the Luquillo LTER: Preliminary Findings on Stakeholder Perspectives of Water Governance and Sustainability (pdf)

Chona Sister and Christopher Boone. Park Access and Equity in Phoenix (pdf)

Information management, outreach and education

Raul Aguilar, Corinna Gries, and Inigo San Gil. Another Piece for the Metadata Management System at CAP (pdf)

Birgit Musheno and Monica Elser K-12 Student posters:. Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project

• Which location do the birds think is the safest? By Jackson Du (pdf)
• How does the amount of species differ between urban and desert yards? By Hannah Fay and Jacob van Raaphorst (pdf)
• Does the presence of water influence the magnitude of bird activity? By Nathan Jack and Stephanie Kim (pdf)
• Does the presence of water effect the birds in a backyard? By Charmi Vasoya and Christina Manuele (pdf)

Hung V. Nguyen, Corinna Gries, and Hasan Davulcu. AHIS Dataset Search Engine: An Intelligent Approach to EML Data Management (pdf)

Shankara Subramanya, Corinna Gries, Kathy Jacobs, Wolf-Dieter Otte, Ramon Vazquez, Joe Abraham, Raul Aguilar, James McGill, and Huan Liu. The Arizona Hydrologic Information System: Enhanced data Accessibility Using Web Services (pdf)

Jean C. Stutz, Jordan Costello, Andrea Gerbasio, Corinna Gries, and Edward Gilbert. New Informatic Model for Identifying Urban Plant Problems (pdf)

Decision Center for a Desert City

Stacy Avent, Amber Wutich, Beatrice Crona, Patricia Gober, Mohan Seetharam, and Paul Westerhoff. An Ethnohydrologic Evaluation of Water Quality in Phoenix, AZ (pdf)

Robert C. Balling, Jr., Patricia Gober, and Nancy Jones. Sensitivity of Residential Water Consumption to Variations in Weather and Climate: An Intra-Urban Analysis of Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Bethany B. Cutts, Allyn. K. Knox, and Nicholas R. Moore. Information Distribution Across Organizational Networks (pdf)

Vanessa Escobar, Tim Lant, Jessica Block, Perry Miller, Michael Tschudi. A Scenario Based Assessment of Future Groundwater Resources in the Phoenix Active Management Area (pdf)

Meredith Gartin, Amber Wutich, Timothy Lant, Dave White, Kelli Larson, Susan Ledlow and Patricia Gober. Focusing on Higher Quality Focus Groups (pdf)

Jason Howard, Kelli Larson, Dave White, and Elizabeth Wentz. Water Managers’ Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty in Their Use of GIS for Decision-Making (pdf)

Seung-Jae Lee and Elizabeth A. Wentz. Spatial Extrapolation Mapping Based on Aggregated Data: Countywide Extrapolation of Phoenix Water Use Data (pdf)

Seung-Jae Lee, Elizabeth A. Wentz, and Patricia Gober. Temporal Geographic Information System (TGIS) to Forecast Future Water Consumption in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Mohan Seetharam, Bob Bolin, Brian Pompeii, and Patricia Gober. Water Resources, Climate Change and Institutional Vulnerability: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Clea Senneville, Kelli Larson, Amber Wutich, Tim Lant, Meredith Gartin, Dave White, Susan Ledlow, and Pat Gober. “Missed Opportunities” in Central Arizona Management: Reconciling the Local Supply of and Demand for Science (pdf)

Michael Tschudi, Using WaterSim for Education: A Work in Progress (pdf)

Victoria K. Turner. Pricing for Conservation: Response to Growth and Drought in Tucson and Phoenix (pdf)

Lilah Zautner, Kelli Larson, and Bob Bolin. Water Vulnerability on the Urban Periphery: The Case of Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)