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 (pdf) Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu
3D Downtown Phoenix Modeling (pdf) Yoshihiro Kobayashi
Large-Scale Urban Change Mapping by Remote Sensing (pdf) Matthias S. Moeller
Urban Tree Cover of Leipzig, Germany (pdf) Jason Walker and Ellen Banzhaf
A High-Resolution Urban Landcover Classification Scheme for Phoenix (pdf) Jason Walker and Thomas Blaschke
Climate-Ecosystems Interactions
Estimating Anthropogenic Heat Discharge and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) of Phoenix with Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data (pdf) Alexander Buyantuyev, Anthony Brazel, and Chris Eisinger
An Analysis of Air-Mass Effects on the Use of Rail Transit Systems (pdf) James Clancy, Adam Kalkstein, Daniel Gerrity, and Michael Kuby
Testing a Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme in MM5 for the Phoenix Metropolitan Region: Influence of Urbanization on Weather in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region (pdf) Susanne Grossman-Clarke and Joseph A. Zehnder
Science Policy and Research on Climate: Ecosystem Sensitivity Analysis (pdf) Mark Neff, Netra Chhetri, Lori Hidinger, and Ryan Meyer
Effects of Surface Mulches on Soil Moisture Content and Leaf Relative Water Content of Atriplex canescens (pdf) Catherine K. Singer and Chris A. Martin
A Comparison of Inorganic and Organic Surface Mulches on Rates of Soil Respiration. (pdf) Catherine K. Singer and Chris A. Martin
Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response
Determination of Bulk Dissolved Organic Carbon Content in the Verde River-Reservoir System (pdf) Bradley Brown and Hilairy Hartnett
Dry Deposition of Fine Aerosol Nitrogen to an Agricultural Field Measured by Eddy-Correlation Mass Spectrometry (pdf) Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen
Evolution of Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Tempe Town Lake: Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Processes (pdf) Hilairy Hartnett and Bradley Brown
Experimental Assessment of Nitrate Filtration Capacity of Xeriscaped Stormwater Retention Basin Soils (pdf) Elisabeth K. Larson and Nancy B. Grimm
Does Urbanization Affect the Total N, C and Nutrient Concentrations in the Soil? (pdf) Anandamayee Majumdar, Jason Kaye, Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, and Nancy Grimm
The Sky is Falling: Soil Microbial Responses to Deposition from the Urban Atmosphere (pdf) Michelle McCrackin, Tamara Harms, and Nancy Grimm
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 (pdf) Panjai Prapaipong and Everett Shock
Heavy Metal Variations in Residential Soil Communities along an Urban to Rural Gradient (pdf) Christina P. Wong, Laura Murawski, Katalin Szlavecz, Richard V. Pouyat, Peter Marra, Ryan Casey, and Steve Lev
Effects of Urbanization-Induced Environmental Changes on Desert Ecosystem Functioning (pdf) Jianguo Wu, Weijun Shen, Nancy B. Grimm, and Diane Hope
Patterns of Trace Element Distributions in the Urban-Desert System (pdf) Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock
Human Control of Biodiversity
Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Suppression on Productivity of Encelia farinosa (Brittlebush) at an Urban and a Desert Site (pdf) Robert Bills and Jean Stutz
Trophic Dynamics in Urban Ecosystems. (pdf) Stanley H. Faeth, Wendy A. Marussich, Paige S. Warren, and Eyal Shochat
The Role of Transportation Corridors in Plant Migration in and around Phoenix, Arizona, an Arid Urban Area (pdf) Kris J. Gade
Wildlife Use of Preserved Natural Habitats Within the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area (pdf) Scott Sprague, Lisa Shender, and Chantel O’Brien
Humans in the Urban Food Web: Emerging Insights from Phoenix and Baltimore (pdf) Paige S. Warren, Phil Tarrant, Erin Adley, J. Morgan Grove, Eyal Shochat, and Stan Faeth
Human Dimensions of Ecological Research
Archaeological Contributions to Contemporary Socioecological Issues (pdf) Scott E. Ingram
Landscape Preferences in the Arid Southwest: Comparative Results from the Phoenix Area Social Survey and North Desert Village (pdf) Kelli Larson, Rosanne Servis, David Casagrande, Elizabeth Farley-Metzger, Sharon Harlan, Larissa Larson, and Scott Yabiku
Legacies on the Landscape: Integrating Ecology and Archaeology on the Agua Fria National Monument, Arizona (pdf) Melissa Kruse, Hoski Schaafsma, Karen Schollmeyer, John Briggs, Kari Horn, Keith Kintigh, Chien Lai, Katherine Spielmann, and Caitlin Wichlacz
Messages from the Past: How Modern Landscapes Reveal Prehistoric Land Use Patterns (pdf) Hoski Schaafsma, Katie Johnson, and John Briggs
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 (pdf) Laura Dugan, Laura Fisher, and Bethany Lund
A System for Creating, Storing, and Identifying Plant Voucher Specimens from a Large Sampling Area (pdf) Laura Dugan, Les Landrum, Corinna Gries, Martin Wojciechowski, and Diane Hope
Long-Term Monitoring Data at CAP (pdf) Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley Faeth, Chris Martin, Paige Warren, Jana Hutchins, Charles Redman, Will Stefanov, Matthias Moeller, and Jennifer Edmonds
The CAP LTER Ecosystem Services Assessment: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Study (pdf) Maya L. Kapoor, Ann P. Kinzig, and Charles Perrings
Plans for the 2006 Phoenix Area Social Survey (pdf) Darren Ruddell, Anne Gustafson, Jason Walker, and Sharon Harlan
Service at Salado, an Urban Environmental Service-Learning Project (pdf) Charlene Saltz, Nancy Crocker, Danielle Taddy, and Monica Elser
Water Education Provider Survey Results (pdf) Charlene Saltz, Monica Elser, Kim Michel, and Bethany Cutts
Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project Lynn Stinson-Keys, Monica Elser, and Charlene Saltz
Decision Center for a Desert City
Drought Determinations for the Colorado River Basin (pdf) Robert C. Balling Jr. and Gregg B Goodrich
Peri-Urban Growth, Water Conflicts, and Vulnerability in the Verde Watershed (pdf) Tim Collins, Bob Bolin, Yolonda Youngs, and Melanie Tluczek
Climate Variability and Change (pdf) Andrew Ellis, Gregg Garfin, Robert Balling, Jr., and Christopher Graham
Spatial Expansion of the Greater Phoenix Urban Heat Island (1990-2004) (pdf) Brent C. Hedquist and Erin Comparri
Impact of Urban Heat Island on Residential Water Use (pdf) Subhro Guhathakurta
Decision Research in Water Resources Management: A Multiple-Objective, Multiple-Stakeholder Analysis (pdf) Craig Kirkwood, L. Robin Keller, and Nancy Jones
A System Dynamics Model for Water Supply and Demand in Greater Phoenix (pdf) Timothy Lant
The Hohokam Water Management Simulation: Collaborative Modeling of a Complex Coupled Human/Environmental System (pdf) John T. Murphy and Ann P. Kinzig
Expert Perspectives on Science, Politics, and Water Management in Phoenix (pdf) Arianne Peterson, Peter Howe, Margaret White, Dave White, and Elizabeth Corley
Factors Influencing Residential Water Consumption for the City of Phoenix, Arizona (pdf) Elizabeth Wentz and Patricia Gober
Workflows: GIS Data to a Visualization Environment (pdf) Michael Zoldak, Shea Lemar, Ruth Jensen, and Jana Hutchins