New Online Course Offering: From Yardsticks to Gyroscope From Yardsticks to Gyroscope: Interdisciplinary Methods for the Long-Term
Study of Social-Ecological Systems is an online course offered through
the the LTER Network. Using the latest cyber-technologies,
the course will link students and researchers with a common
interest in using interdisciplinary methods for the long-term
study of socio-ecological systems across North America. Your
guides in this course will be Drs. Ted Gragson (University
of Georgia), Laura Ogden (Florida International University),
Morgan Grove (USDA Forest Service-Burlington), and Chris
Boone (Arizona State University). Graduate students of those
insitutions may take the course for credit. For more information
go to http://coweeta.ecology.uga.edu/ecology/web_learning/intro2009.html(November
3, 2008)
Experimental Flood to Study Nitrogen Fluxes and Transformations
School of
Life Sciences graduate student Libby Larson experimentally floods
a stormwater retention basin at a north Phoenix elementary school
in order to better understand nitrogen fluxes and transformations.
A ubiquitous feature in the Phoenix metropolitan landscape, stormwater
retention basins concentrate water, nutrients, and pollutants
and thus can be important places for improving stormwater quality
and recharging groundwater, but may also be sources of greenhouse
gases. (October 1, 2008).
Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment Special Issue
A group of LTER scientists recently collaborated to write a series
of articles about ecological connectivity in a special issue of the
Ecological Society of America (ESA) journal, Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment, Issue 5, Vol. 6, of June 2008. The special issue
is titled "Continental-scale
ecology in an increasingly connected world" and contains guest editorials
by Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER) and Steve Carpenter (North
Temperate Lakes LTER); commentaries by LTER chair, Phil Robertson
(Kellogg Biological Station LTER), and a team from the National Ecological
Observatory Network (NEON); and the series of articles authored by more than
a dozen LTER and NEON and their collaborators. Nancy Grimm (CAP
LTER) is coauthor on two of the articles. For more information go directly
to the source at http://www.frontiersinecology.org/.
You may also listen to Debra Peter's podcast interview,
and also read press releases about it at the ESA
website
and NSF
website.(June 9, 2008)
Special Online Collection About Cities Global
Change and the Ecology of Cities, a paper published recently
in the journal Science,
authored by CAP LTER researchers Nancy Grimm, Stanley Faeth, Charles
Redman, Jianguo Wu, John Briggs and colleagues from Australia
and New Zealand, concludes that global change and the ecology
of cities are closely linked. See the National
Science Foundation press
release and Scienceonline
video introduction to the collection of articles. (February
11, 2008)
Findings from the new Phoenix Area Social Survey
The 2006 Highlights. Phoenix Area Social Survey Community
and Environment in a Desert Metropolis by Sharon L.
Harlan, Megha Budruk, Annie Gustafson,
Kelli Larson, Darren Ruddell, V. Kerry Smith, Scott T. Yabiku, and
Amber Wutich is now available. Please visit our Contributions
Series page
to find it and our other Contribution publications. (January
29, 2008)
Tenth Annual Poster Symposium Posters
The posters from our January 10th
session are now online. Please visit the 10th
Annual Symposium to learn
about some of the current CAP LTER research. (January 29, 2008)
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