[Srm] Invitation to attend 8th RISE Symposium on 29 Oct

[Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)]

Colleagues,

You are invited to attend the 8th RISE Symposium (Research Insights in Semi-arid Environments) next Saturday (29 October 2011) from 8:30-2:30 in Marley 230 (on campus).  We have a wonderful group of invited speakers including Petey Mesquite (aka Peter Gierlach from "Growing Native" on KXCI radio) and a very diverse group of poster presentations.

Registration is $25 for non-students and $10 for students, and includes buffet lunch. You can register on-line at http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rise/index.htm and pay on-site. Please register soon so we can place an accurate order for the buffet.

Sincerely,
Mitch McClaran



8th RISE Symposium (Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems)

Saturday, 29 October 2011



Marley Building, Room 230




8:30-9:00

Registration



9:00-9:15

Mitch McClaran and
Susan Moran

RISE Welcome, Activities at WGEW and SRER

9:15-9:25

Dan Ferguson
UA IE

Climate Research, Decision Support and Outreach: An Overview of the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) Program

9:25-9:35

Linda Kennedy
AWRR

What good is a ranch if you don’t raise cows?

9:35-9:55

Phil Guertin
UA SNRE

AGWA-R: A Decision Support Tool for Western Rangeland Watersheds

9:55-10:15

Jim Malusa
UA SNRE

Why are there no big pines in the Dragoons?  Describing and discovering the vegetation of SE Arizona for the FireScape Project

10:15-10:35

Goggy Davidowitz
UA DE

Nectar type and the flight-fecundity tradeoff in a semi arid environment

10:35-11:00

Poster introductions

Poster abstracts presented by poster authors

11:00-1:00

Poster Session

Authors will be with their posters in the hall outside the conference room

12:00-1:00

Lunch w/ Posters


Provided at the meeting; included in RISE registration fee

1:00-1:20

Xubin Zeng
UA DAS


Soil moisture distribution at WGEW and SRER based on conventional sensors, COSMOS probes, and a simple model

1:20-1:40

Greg Barron-Gafford
UA Biosphere 2

The relative controls of temperature and soil moisture on soil CO2 efflux under a changing landscape

1:40-2:00

Mary Nichols
USDA ARS SWRC

Rangeland applications for very high resolution photography

2:00-2:20

Peter Gierlach (Petey Mesquitey)  KXCI Radio

Eureka Moments: A life revealed by the natural history of a semiarid ecosystem

2:20-2:30

Discussion


All speakers and poster authors will be in attendance



POSTERS

P1


Mickey Reed UA SNRE


Mapping Arizona Wetlands

P2

Uyen Nguyen UA SWES

Vegetation Phenology and Intensity as a Function of Climate and River Flows for an Ephemeral Desert River, 2000 to 2010, Using MODIS Satellite Data

P3

Pamela Nagler USGS

Monitoring of Tamarisk -- beetle interactions on the lower Virgin

P4

Daniel Robinett RRR

Babacomari River Riparian Protection Project

P5


Retta Bruegger UA SNRE

Efficacy of Using Supplementation and Herding to Reduce Fine Fuels in the Santa Rita Mountains of southeastern Arizona

P6

Hillary Nicholas UA SNRE

Estimating infiltration rates for intermittent streams in the semiarid southwest: implications for ecosystem processes

P7

Eva Levi UA SNRE

Soil-litter mixing accelerates decomposition and facilitates soil aggregation  in a shrub-invaded Sonoran Desert grassland

P8

Amber Dalke UA SNRE

Validating Expert-Based State-and-Transition Models using Long-term Data

P9

Haiyan Wei USDA ARS SWRC


Are droughts more likely during grazing periods than rest periods in rotational systems?

P10

Nicole Pierini
ASU


Watershed-Scale Ecohydrological Dynamics in the Santa Rita Experimental Range

P11

Daniel Bunting
UA SNRE


Estimating large-scale evapotranspiration in arid and semi-arid systems

P12

Dean Keller
UA SNRE


K-12 Standards Conundrum: Teaching Math & Science Through Authentic Field Research

P13

Stepfanie Aguillon UA SNRE

Short-Term Leaf Litter Decomposition on the Santa Rita Experimental Range

P14

Jamie Moy UA SPS

Effects of microbial communities on in vitro and in situ degradation of plant material  in an arid ecosystem

P15

Darin Law UA SNRE

A new approach for predicting near-surface wind using high-resolution characterizations of canopy architecture from hemispherical photography and LiDAR:  a preliminary assessment at the Santa Rita Experimental Range.

P16

Pierre Deviche ASU SLS

Rapid effects of capture and handling on circulating hormone concentrations in the male Rufous-winged Sparrow, Peucaea carpalis

P17

Stephanie Bittner ASU SLS

Corticosterone’s relationship with parental investments in a Sonoran desert passerine, the Rufous-winged Sparrow, Peucaea carpalis

P18

Aaryn Olsson NAU

Landscape models of non-native plant phenology and invasion to support conservation on military and adjacent lands in the Sonoran Desert


RISE Organizing Committee:
Mark Heitlinger, Mitch McClaran, Susan Moran
markh at Ag.arizona.edu<mailto:markh at Ag.arizona.edu>
mcclaran at u.arizona.edu<mailto:mcclaran at u.arizona.edu>
susan.moran at ars.usda.gov<mailto:susan.moran at ars.usda.gov>

Undefined Acronyms:
ARS: Agricultural Research Service
ASU:  Arizona State University
AWRR: Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch
DAS: Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
DB: Dept. Biology
DE: Dept. of Entomology
IE: Institute of the Environment
NAU: Northern Arizona University
RRR: Robinett Rangeland Resources LLC
SLS: School of Life Sciences
SNRE: School of Natural Resources and the Environment
SPS: School of Plant Sciences
SRER: Santa Rita Experimental Range
SWRC: Southwest Watershed Research Center
UA: University of Arizona
USGS:  US Geological Survey
WGEW: Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed

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