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

Program Abstracts

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

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

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

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

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

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Rimjhim Aggarwal, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, and Vasudha Lathey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Rebecca Hale and Nancy B. Grimm

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

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? (pdf) Elizabeth K. Larson and Nancy B. Grimm

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human Control of Biodiversity

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Aura Ontiveros-Valencia and Jean C. Stutz

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 (pdf) Colleen Strawhacker, Elizabeth M. Cook, Kelli L. Larson, and Sharon J. Hall

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

Information Management, Outreach, and Education

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

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