Skip to Content
Report an accessibility problem
January 12-13, 2011 Arizona Room, Memorial Union Arizona State University

Program of Abstracts

Urban Spatial Dynamics

Bleasdale, Thomas, Carolyn Crouch, and Sharon Harlan. Community gardening in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona: Aligning programs with perceptions.

Crouch, Carolyn, Phoenix Revitalization Corporation, and Sharon Harlan. Community food resource mapping in central city south, Phoenix: An exploratory study of community capacity building.

Frisk, Erin, and Kelli Larson. Developing and implementing sustainability education through the integration of behavioral science.

Hale, Anne, and Emily Talen. Analysis of zoning changes in Phoenix, AZ.

Kim, Won Kyung, and Elizabeth A. Wentz. Re-examining the definition of urban open space using fuzzy set theory.

Sayles, Jessie S., Elizabeth M. Cook, Kelli L. Larson, and Sharon J. Hall. The influence of environmental values and neighborhood context on household-level biodiversity.

Sovik, Brian B. A spatial-temporal representation of land subsidence in the northwest Phoenix valley, Arizona.

Zhang, Chi, Nancy Grimm, Jianguo Wu, Melissa McHale,  Yun Ouyang, and Xiaoli Dong. Modeling the structure and functions of human-dominated terrestrial ecosystems with a hierarchical patch dynamics approach.

Urban and Nonurban Habitat

Banville, Melanie, and Heather Bateman. Herpetofauna and microhabitat characteristics of urban and wildland reaches along the Salt River, Arizona.

Davies, Scott, and Pierre Deviche. Does urbanization influence the timing of seasonal reproduction and the effect of stress on the reproductive physiology of a Sonoran Desert songbird?

Gade, Kris. Roadside maintenance practices influence plant migration along freeways.

Johnson, J. Chadwick, Gina M. Hupton, Dianna Bonney, and Monica Elser. The web of inquiry: Urban black widow spider behavior as a tool to teach the scientific process.

Johnson, J. Chadwick, Meghan Still, and Theresa Gburek. Conspecific silk cues shape the habitat preferences of black widows.

Lerman, Susannah B., V. Kelly Turner, and Christofer Bang.  Linking homeowners associations with biodiversity: A case study in Phoenix, AZ.

Lettsome, Olivia, and Heather Bateman. Avian communities from urban and non-urban riparian habitats.

Ripplinger, Julie, and Janet Franklin. Spatiotemporal patterns of dominant plant species in CAP LTER.

Trubl, Patricia, Theresa Gburek, Lindsay Miles, and J. Chadwick Johnson. Black widows in an urban desert: Population variation in an urban pest across metropolitan Phoenix.

Zhang, Sainan, Christopher G. Boone, and Abigail M. York. Impacts of land fragmentation on biodiversity in the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Urban Energetics and Cycles

Chapman, Eric, and Benjamin Warner. Foreseeing critical phosphorus cycle transitions in constructed wetlands: Applied to the new Tres Rios arid-land constructed wetlands with the City of Phoenix.

Frijia, Stephane, Eric Williams, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, and Ariane Middel. Scaling behavior of the life cycle energy of residential buildings and impacts on greenhouse gas emissions.

Gifford,  J. Mac, and Paul K. Westerhoff. Making biofuel renewable: Recovering phosphorus from residual biosmass.

Hale, Rebecca, Laura Turnbull, Stevan  Earl, and Nancy Grimm. Effects of urban stormwater infrastructure and spatial scale on nutrient export and runoff from semi-arid urban catchments.

Metson, Genevieve, Jessica Corman, Elizabeth Cook, Rebecca Hale, David Iwaniec, and Christopher Galletti. Nutrient movements in human environment interactions: Phosphorus in Phoenix.

Turnbull, Laura, Daniel L. Childers, Rebecca Hale, Enrique Vivoni, Stevan Earl, and Nancy B. Grimm. Ecosystem structure and hydrologic function of urban deserts.

Warner, Benjamin, Daniel Childers, and Laura Turnbull. Hydrology versus ecology: The effectiveness of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in a semi-arid climate.

Urban Heat Island and Water

Ackley, J. W. Off the sand and onto the asphalt: Does the urban heat island impact desert lizards?

Elser, Monica, Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Sharon Harlan, Gina Hupton, Dulce Medina, and Elena Ortiz. Creating a cross-disciplinary unit for middle school children on the urban heat island.

Middel, Ariane, Anthony Brazel, Patricia Gober, Soe Myint, Heejun Chang, and Jiunn-Der Duh. Impacts of weather vaiability on turbulent heat fluxes in Phoenix, AZ and Portland, OR.

Ruddell, Darren M., Anthony Brazel, Juan Declet, P. Grady Dixon, Patricia Gober, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Sharon L. Harlan, Scott Kelley, and Elizabeth Wentz. Environmental tradeoffs in a desert city: An investigation of water use, energy consumption, and local air temperature in Phoenix, AZ.

Sampson, David, and David Sailor. Coupled energy and water use in the Phoenix metro area as influenced by drought and climate change; empirical observations and simluation analyses.

Tuccillo, Joseph. Path dependency: Water allocation, settlement patterns and urban trajectories in the Salt River Valley, 1914-1979.

Sigurdsson, Sveinn, Rhian Stotts, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, and Abigail York. Fairness and the human right to water: A preliminary cross-cultural theory.