Details

Date

January 15, 2009

Location

Carson Ballroom, Old Main Arizona State University

Program and abstracts

Posters

Land use and land cover changes

Shannon Conley, Justin Helepololei, and Abigail York. Trust Land Preservation, Development, and Direct Democracy (pdf; large file)

Justin Helepolelei, Sainan Zhang, and Abigal M. York. Patterns and Institutions of Land Use on Indian Communities (pdf)

Lela Prashad, Phil Christensen, Saadat Anwar, Eric Engle, and Scott Dickenshied. JEarth – Analytical Imagery Application for Practitioners and Researchers (pdf; large file)

Sainan Zhang, Abigail M. York, and Christopher G. Boone. Monitoring Landscape Fragmentation with Rapid Urbanization in the Central Arizona — Phoenix Region (pdf)

Climate-ecosystems interactions

Winston T. L. Chow, and Ronald Pope. Modeling Micro-scale Park-Cooling Effects Within the ASU Campus: An Evaluation of the Envi-Met Climate Model (pdf)

Darren Ruddell, Sharon L. Harlan, and Susanne Grossman-Clarke. Assessing Exposure and Experience with Extreme Heat in Phoenix, AZ (pdf)

Chona Sister, Christopher Boone, Jay Golden, Donna Hartz, and Wen-Ching Chuang. Spatial Analysis of Crime and Socio-economic Variables as Indicators for Heat-Health Vulnerability in Chicago, Illinois (pdf)

Water policy, use and supply

Rimjhim Aggarwal, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, and Vasudha Lathey. How do Variation in Heat Islands in Space and Time Influence Household Water Use? A Longitudinal Study of Single Family Residences in Phoenix (pdf)

Allain Barnett, Edward Jensen, and Paul Terek. Demographic Factors Influencing Water Quality Perceptions and Bottled Water Consumption (pdf)

Bethany Cutts, Ariana Fox, Allyn Knox, and Nicholas R. Moore. Chutes or Ladders? Examining the Roles of Geography and Ideology in Mediating the Relationship Between Information Providers and the Public’s Environmental Awareness (pdf)

Dorothy C. Ibes, Kelli L. Larson, and Elizabeth A. Wentz. Human Ecological Concern about Resource Consumption at the Neighborhood-Level: Perceived Versus Actual Water Scarcity Risks in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Chris Mercer and Kelli Larson. Public Perceptions of Drought and Support for Changes in Water Pricing and Use (pdf)

David A. Sampson and Patricia Gober. The Central Arizona Water-Energy Nexus: Estimates of Energy Used to Transport CAP Water Modeled Using WaterSim 3.4_DCDC (pdf)

Clea Senneville. Institutions, Linking Knowledge with Action, and Sustainability: A Case Study of the Arizona Water Institute (pdf)

Amber Wutich, Beatrice Crona, Mohan Seetharam, Patricia Gober, Paul Westerhoff, Zeenat Hasan, and Stacy Avent. Ethnohydrology: A Mixed Method Study of Local Water Knowledge

Fluxes of materials and socio-ecosystem response

Rebecca Hale and Nancy B. Grimm. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Runoff Chemistry: Land Use Effects (pdf)

Alex Hamilton and Hilairy Hartnett. Black Carbon Concentrations in Urban and Rural Arid-land Soils (pdf)

Hilairy Hartnett, Jessie Shipp, David Lui, and Hillary Waterman. Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics in Tempe Town Lake

Elizabeth K. Larson and Nancy B. Grimm. Nitrogen Gas Emissions from Stormwater Retention Basins During Wet Weather Events in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: an Additional Ecosystem Service? (pdf)

Tracy J. Lund, Everett Shock, and Panjai Prapaipong. Geochemical Dynamics of a Spring-Fed Stream in an Arid Climate (pdf; large file)

Yevgeniy Marusenko, Pierre Herckes, and Sharon Hall. The Fate of Combustion-Derived Carbon Deposition in Urban Soil (pdf)

Melissa R. McHale, Lawrence R. Baker, Brenda A. Koerner, and Nancy B. Grimm. Developing Carbon Budgets for Cities: Phoenix Metropolitan Region as a Case Study (pdf)

Jessie Shipp, Hilairy Hartnett, K. Lui, and Hillary Waterman. Temporal Trends in Dissolved Metal Concentrations in Tempe Town Lake (pdf)

Ken G. Sweat, Thomas H. Nash III, Panjai Prapaipong, and Paul T. Gremillion. Geographic Patterns and Temporal Trends of Trace Metal Deposition Using the Lichen Xanthoparmelia in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA (pdf)

Xaioding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock. Isotope Studies for the Sources of Urban Pb in the Soil of Maricopa County (pdf)

Human control of biodiversity

Christofer Bang, John L. Sabo, and Stanley H. Faeth. Is the Answer Still Blowing in the Wind? Plant Growth in Urban Areas (pdf)

H. Bobby Fokidis, Miles Orchinik, and Pierre Deviche. Increased Territorial Responses in Urban Populations of Two Sonoran Desert Birds: Hormones or Ecology? (pdf)

Susannah B. Lerman and Paige S. Warren. Birds, Habitat, and Socioeconomic Factors: Exploring the Relationships in a Residential Landscape (pdf)

Jennifer Litteral and Jianguo Wu. Effects of Urbanization on Avian Species Diversity in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Patterns in Vegetation Fragments

Aura Ontiveros-Valencia and Jean C. Stutz. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal and Dark Septate Endophytes Colonization of Plant Roots from Urban Desert Preserves and Surrounding Deserts (pdf)

Human dimensions of ecological research

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson. A Process for Science-Society Interactions to Develop an Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA) Site in San Juan City, Puerto Rico

Colleen Strawhacker, Elizabeth M. Cook, Kelli L. Larson, and Sharon J. Hall. Landscape Preferences and Yard Management: The Effects of Homeowners’ Values on Residential Landscapes (pdf)

Victoria K. Turner. The Impact of Semi-Private Social Institutions on Residential Landscape Form and Ecological Structure in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Information management, outreach and education

Edward Gilbert, Corinna Gries, and Thomas Nash. SYMBIOTA: An Innovative New Approach to Interactive Online Species Identification (pdf)

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

Ariana Fox and Bethany B. Cutts. Effective Survey Implementation: Is My John Hancock Worth Two Dollars?