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

Program Abstracts

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