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Central Arizona - Phoenix
Long-Term Ecological Research
(CAP LTER)

Eighth Annual Poster Symposium

January 19, 2006
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Arizona State University

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

Characterizing Phoenix Urban Growth Patterns with Landscape Metrics Based on Remote Sensing Data: Effects of Thematic Resolutions. Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu. (pdf)

3D Downtown Phoenix Modeling. Yoshihiro Kobayashi. (pdf)

Large-Scale Urban Change Mapping by Remote Sensing. Matthias S. Moeller. (pdf)

Urban Tree Cover of Leipzig, Germany. Jason Walker and Ellen Banzhaf. (pdf)

A High-Resolution Urban Landcover Classification Scheme for Phoenix. Jason Walker and Thomas Blaschke. (pdf)

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

Estimating Anthropogenic Heat Discharge and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) of Phoenix with Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data. Alexander Buyantuyev, Anthony Brazel, and Chris Eisinger. (pdf)

An Analysis of Air-Mass Effects on the Use of Rail Transit Systems. James Clancy, Adam Kalkstein, Daniel Gerrity, and Michael Kuby. (pdf)

Testing a Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme in MM5 for the Phoenix Metropolitan Region: Influence of Urbanization on Weather in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region. Susanne Grossman-Clarke and Joseph A. Zehnder. (pdf)

Science Policy and Research on Climate: Ecosystem Sensitivity Analysis. Mark Neff, Netra Chhetri, Lori Hidinger, and Ryan Meyer. (pdf)

Effects of Surface Mulches on Soil Moisture Content and Leaf Relative Water Content of Atriplex canescens. Catherine K. Singer and Chris A. Martin. (pdf)

A Comparison of Inorganic and Organic Surface Mulches on Rates of Soil Respiration. Catherine K. Singer and Chris A. Martin. (pdf)

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

Determination of Bulk Dissolved Organic Carbon Content in the Verde River-Reservoir System. Bradley Brown and Hilairy Hartnett. (pdf)

Dry Deposition of Fine Aerosol Nitrogen to an Agricultural Field Measured by Eddy-Correlation Mass Spectrometry. Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen. (pdf)

Evolution of Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Tempe Town Lake: Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Processes. Hilairy Hartnett and Bradley Brown. (pdf)

Experimental Assessment of Nitrate Filtration Capacity of Xeriscaped Stormwater Retention Basin Soils. Elisabeth K. Larson and Nancy B. Grimm. (pdf)

Does Urbanization Affect the Total N, C and Nutrient Concentrations in the Soil? Anandamayee Majumdar, Jason Kaye, Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, and Nancy Grimm. (pdf)

The Sky is Falling: Soil Microbial Responses to Deposition from the Urban Atmosphere. Michelle McCrackin, Tamara Harms, and Nancy Grimm. (pdf)

The Geochemical Response of Rivers to Storm Events as Indicators of Watershed Processes. Brandon McLean, Panjai Prapaipong, Natalya Zolotova, and Everett Shock.

Chemical Footprints of Urbanization upon River Compositions. Panjai Prapaipong and Everett Shock. (pdf)

Heavy Metal Variations in Residential Soil Communities along an Urban to Rural Gradient. Christina P. Wong, Laura Murawski, Katalin Szlavecz, Richard V. Pouyat, Peter Marra, Ryan Casey, and Steve Lev. (pdf)

Effects of Urbanization-Induced Environmental Changes on Desert Ecosystem Functioning. Jianguo Wu, Weijun Shen, Nancy B. Grimm, and Diane Hope. (pdf)

Patterns of Trace Element Distributions in the Urban-Desert System. Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock. (pdf)

Human Control of Biodiversity

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal suppression on productivity of Encelia farinosa (brittlebush) at an urban and a desert site. Robert Bills and Jean Stutz. (pdf)

Trophic Dynamics in Urban Ecosystems. Stanley H. Faeth, Wendy A. Marussich, Paige S. Warren, and Eyal Shochat. (pdf)

The Role of Transportation Corridors in Plant Migration in and around Phoenix, Arizona, an Arid Urban Area. Kris J. Gade and Ann P. Kinzig. (pdf)

Wildlife Use of Preserved Natural Habitats Within the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Scott Sprague, Lisa Shender, and Chantel O'Brien. (pdf)

Humans in the Urban Food Web: Emerging Insights from Phoenix and Baltimore. Paige S. Warren, Phil Tarrant, Erin Adley, J. Morgan Grove, Eyal Shochat, and Stan Faeth. (pdf)

Human Dimensions of Ecological Research

Archaeological Contributions to Contemporary Socioecological Issues. Scott E. Ingram. (pdf)

Landscape Preferences in the Arid Southwest: Comparative Results from the Phoenix Area Social Survey and North Desert Village. Kelli Larson, Rosanne Servis, David Casagrande, Elizabeth Farley-Metzger, Sharon Harlan, Larissa Larson, and Scott Yabiku. (pdf)

Legacies on the Landscape: Integrating Ecology and Archaeology on the Agua Fria National Monument, Arizona. Melissa Kruse, Hoski Schaafsma, Karen Schollmeyer, John Briggs, Kari Horn, Keith Kintigh, Chien Lai, Katherine Spielmann, and Caitlin Wichlacz. (pdf)

Messages from the Past: How Modern Landscapes Reveal Prehistoric Land Use Patterns. Hoski Schaafsma, Katie Johnson, and John Briggs. (pdf)

The Nature of Economic Value. Timothy Tyrrell and Sacnict Valdez del Rio.

Information Management, Outreach and Education

Baseline Data for a Burned Area in South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona. Laura Dugan, Laura Fisher, and Bethany Lund. (pdf)

A System for Creating, Storing, and Identifying Plant Voucher Specimens from a Large Sampling Area. Laura Dugan, Les Landrum, Corinna Gries, Martin Wojciechowski, and Diane Hope. (pdf)

Long-Term Monitoring Data at CAP. Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley Faeth, Chris Martin, Paige Warren, Jana Hutchins, Charles Redman, Will Stefanov, Matthias Moeller, and Jennifer Edmonds. (pdf)

The CAP LTER Ecosystem Services Assessment: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Study. Maya L. Kapoor, Ann P. Kinzig, and Charles Perrings. (pdf)

Plans for the 2006 Phoenix Area Social Survey. Darren Ruddell, Anne Gustafson, Jason Walker, and Sharon Harlan. (pdf)

Service at Salado, an Urban Environmental Service-Learning Project. Charlene Saltz, Nancy Crocker, Danielle Taddy, and Monica Elser. (pdf)

Water Education Provider Survey Results. Charlene Saltz, Monica Elser, Kim Michel, and Bethany Cutts. (pdf)

Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project. Lynn Stinson-Keys, Monica Elser, and Charlene Saltz. (Posters were only available at the symposium.)

Decision Center for a Desert City

Drought Determinations for the Colorado River Basin. Robert C. Balling Jr. and Gregg B Goodrich. (pdf)

Peri-Urban Growth, Water Conflicts, and Vulnerability in the Verde Watershed. Tim Collins, Bob Bolin, Yolonda Youngs, and Melanie Tluczek. (pdf)

Climate Variability and Change. Andrew Ellis, Gregg Garfin, Robert Balling, Jr., and Christopher Graham. (pdf)

Spatial Expansion of the Greater Phoenix Urban Heat Island (1990-2004). Brent C. Hedquist and Erin Comparri. (pdf)

Impact of Urban Heat Island on Residential Water Use. Subhro Guhathakurta. (pdf)

Decision Research in Water Resources Management: A Multiple-Objective, Multiple-Stakeholder Analysis. Craig Kirkwood, L. Robin Keller, and Nancy Jones. (pdf)

A System Dynamics Model for Water Supply and Demand in Greater Phoenix. Timothy Lant. (pdf)

The Hohokam Water Management Simulation: Collaborative Modeling of a Complex Coupled Human/Environmental System. John T. Murphy and Ann P. Kinzig. (pdf)

Expert Perspectives on Science, Politics, and Water Management in Phoenix. Arianne Peterson, Peter Howe, Margaret White, Dave White, and Elizabeth Corley. (pdf)

Factors Influencing Residential Water Consumption for the City of Phoenix, Arizona. Elizabeth Wentz and Patricia Gober. (pdf)

Workflows: GIS Data to a Visualization Environment. Michael Zoldak, Shea Lemar, Ruth Jensen, and Jana Hutchins. (pdf)