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

Eleventh Annual Poster Symposium

January 15, 2009
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Arizona State University

Abstracts (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

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

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

JEarth - Analytical Imagery Application for Practitioners and Researchers
Lela Prashad, Phil Christensen, Saadat Anwar, Eric Engle, and Scott Dickenshied (pdf)

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

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

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

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

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

Water Policy, Use, and Supply

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human Control of Biodiversity

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

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

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

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

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

Human Dimensions of Ecological Research

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

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

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

Information Management, Outreach, and Education

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

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

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