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Poster Symposium Posters Online!
You can now view our posters online from the 11th Annual Symposium. The poster authored by Colleen Strawhacker, Elizabeth Cook, Kelli Larson, and Sharon Hall has won the CAP LTER annual student poster competition. The poster, entitled "Landscape preferences and yard management: The effects of homeowners' values on residential landscapes," was the result of research conducted in an IGERT workshop in Fall 2008. Congratulations to Colleen and her colleagues on this excellent poster. Runners-up in the competition were Susannah Lerman and Paige Warren, "Birds, habitat, and socioeconomic factors: Exploring the relationships in a residential landscape," Dorothy Ibes, Kelli Larson, and Elizabeth Wentz, "Human ecological concern about resource consumption at the neighborhood level: Perceived versus actual water scarcity risks in Phoenix, Arizona," and Bobby Fokidis, M. Onchinik, and Pierre Deviche, "Increased territorial responses in urban populations of two Sonoran desert birds: Hormones or ecology?"an Era of Global Change,” will be held on January 15, 2009 in the Carson Ballroom, Old Main. Nancy Grimm will open the symposium with a presentation on “Global change in the urban century.” As in previous years, this event includes presentations from a wide range of scholars and two poster sessions. See the program (pdf).

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).


CAP LTER Studies a Flood Basin from Institute of Sustainability on Vimeo.

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 Science online 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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