Details

Date

January 14, 2010

Location

Carson Ballroom, Old Main Arizona State University Tempe campus

Program and abstracts

Posters

Land use and land cover changes

Rachel Abrahams, Rimjhim Aggarwal, and Carissa Taylor. Exploratory Study on the Spatial Extent of Locally Oriented Food Production in Maricopa and Pinal Counties (pdf)

Tommy Bleasdale, Carolyn Crouch, David Miles, and Sharon Harlan. Community-Based Gardening in Phoenix Central City South: Developing a University-Nonprofit Partnership (pdf)

Wen-Ching Chuang and Charles L. Redman. Monitoring 1985-2005 Residential Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area (pdf)

Won Kyung Kim and Elizabeth Wentz. Understanding Urban Open Spaces using a Green Index (pdf)

Milan Shrestha, Abigail York, Christopher Boone, and Sainan Zhang. Land Fragmentation under Rapid Urbanization: A Cross-Site Comparative Analysis (pdf)

Carissa Taylor, Rimjhim Aggarwal, Hallie Eakin, and Katherine Spielmann. Local Food in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Barriers and Enablers as Perceived by Food System Stakeholders (pdf)

Sainan Zhang, Abigail M. York, Christopher G. Boone, and Milan Shrestha. Land Fragmentation under Rapid Urbanization: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis (pdf)

Climate-ecosystems interactions

Juan Declet-Barreto, Anthony J. Brazel, M. Shimizu-Menke, Sharon L. Harlan, and the Sherman Park Neighborhood Association. Linking Urban Heat Island Research to Community-Based Greening Efforts: Collaborative Research in Community Partnership (pdf; large file)

Desirae A. Hoffman, Darren M. Ruddell, and Omaya Ahmad. Historical Temperature Trends in Phoenix, Arizona from 1896-2009 (pdf)

Chris A. Martin. Undercanopy and Below-Ground Microclimate Patterns at the North Desert Village: 2007-2009 (pdf)

Darren Ruddell, Juan Declet, Sharon L. Harlan, and Susanne Grossman-Clarke. Climate Change in an Urban Desert: Examining the Role of Vegetation in Local Temperature Variability in Phoenix, AZ (pdf; large file)

Chi Zhang, Nancy Grimm, and Jianguo Wu. Modeling the Structure and Functions of Human-Dominated Ecosystems with a Hierarchical Patch Dynamics Approach (pdf)

Water policy, use and supply

Omaya Ahmad and Darren Ruddell. Balancing Energy and Water Consumption in an Urban Desert Environment: A Case Study on Phoenix, AZ (pdf)

Jason Loose and Amber Wutich. Can Where You Live Affect How You Think? Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Water Scarcity in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

David Romako. Engaging Phoenix-Area Homeowners’ Associations for Long-Term Volunteer Environmental Reporting with Arizona DroughtWatch

David A. Sampson. Differentiation in Potential Water Savings from Using Reclaimed Household Grey Water among Phoenix Metro Water Providers; Analyses from a New DCDC Simulation Tool

Christina P. Wong and Nancy B. Grimm. The Dynamics of Urban Water Consumption (pdf)

Fluxes of materials and socio-ecosystem response

Robin Cleland, Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, Dorothy Ibes, and Sveinn Sigurdsson. An Environmental Justice and Public Health Analysis of Park Use in South Phoenix (pdf)  

Elizabeth Cook, Rebecca Hale, David Iwaniec, Jessica Corman, Xiaoli Dong, Genevieve Metson, and Jesse Sayles. Urban Stoichiometry: An Elemental Approach to Understanding Human-Environment Interactions

Alex Hamilton and Hilairy Hartnett. Black Carbon Concentration and Bulk Composition in Central Arizona-Phoenix (pdf)

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

Yevgeniy Marusenko, Pierre Herckes, and Sharon Hall. Magnitude, Distribution, and Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Highway Soils (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)

Laura Turnbull, Daniel L. Childers, Rebecca Hale, and Nancy B. Grimm. Conceptualizing Urban Ecohydrological Interactions and Feedbacks

Benjamin P. Warner and Chris Kuzdas. Measuring Urban Vulnerability Using a Model of Ecological Resilience: An Assessment Methodology (pdf)

Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock. Evidence of Arsenic Accumulation in Soils through Irrigation in Maricopa County, AZ (pdf)

Human control of biodiversity

Christofer Bang, John L. Sabo, and Stanley H. Faeth. Emerging Patterns from Urban Ecological Field Studies (pdf)

Scott Davies, Natalie Rodriguez, Karen L. Sweazea, and Pierre Deviche. The Influence of Acute Stress on Glucose and Protein Utilization of a Desert Songbird (pdf)  

H. Bobby Fokidis, Richard Sparr, Karen Sweazea, and Pierre Deviche. Species-,  Habitat-, and Body Mass-Associated Changes in Plasma Metabolites during the Avian Stress Response (pdf)

Amanda Johnson, Orenda Revis, and J. Chadwick Johnson. Chemical Prey Cues Influence the Microhabitat Preferences of Western Black Widow Spiders (pdf)

J. Chadwick Johnson, Lindsay Miles, and Patricia Trubl. The Urban Behavioral Ecology of the Western Black Widow Spider: The Effect of Nature and Nurture on Development and Cannibalism (pdf)  

Susannah B. Lerman, V. Kelly Turner, and Rebecca Watson. Suburban Development with Wildlife in Mind: An Investigation of Homeowners’ Associations in Phoenix, AZ (pdf)  

Tracy Shoumaker, A. Smith, C. Chambers, and Jianguo Wu. Effects of Urbanization on Bat Community Structure in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region

Nick Vandehei and Heather Bateman. Novelty Responses of Three Birds in a Desert Suburban Habitat (pdf)

Education and outreach

Dave Boomgaard and Monica Elser. Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project: Westwood High School

Allison Dekatch, Alinka Caponigro, and Birgit Musheno. Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project: Desert Vista High School

Larry Langstaff and Monica Elser. Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project: Hendrix High School

Nathan Toke, Kate Darby, Elizabeth Cook, Chris Mead, Jennifer Brian, Troy Benn,  Stuart Fisher, Christopher Boone,and Steven Semken. Pedagogy in Interdisciplinary Higher Education: An Investigation of Faculty and Student Perspectives (pdf)