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<div style="font-size:11pt" class="ContentPasted0">We are now taking registration for the 19<span class="ContentPasted0"><sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup> RISE Symposium. The registration link went live this morning.</span></div>
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19th annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium<br class="ContentPasted0">
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Saturday, 21 October 2023, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM<br class="ContentPasted0">
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University of Arizona Marley Building Auditorium (Room 230), Tucson, Arizona<br style="mso-special-character:line-break" class="ContentPasted0">
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The 19th annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium will be held Saturday, 21 October 2023, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM on the University of Arizona campus. The objectives of the symposium are to share recent results of research at the USDA-ARS
Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) and the University of Arizona Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER), to encourage future research activities at the WGEW and the SRER, and to promote the WGEW and the SRER as outdoor scientific laboratories.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></p>
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The Symposium will feature invited speakers presenting recent or on-going research on the WGEW, the SRER or other outdoor laboratories in the region. There is also a Student Poster competition with monetary awards. Speakers will include Nico Franz describing
the NEON Biorepository, Michael Kututwa Johnson describing what we can learn from indigenous ingenuity, Joel Biederman describing early results of a precipitation manipulation experiment, and Betsy Arnold describing the diversity soil microbes and mushrooms.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></p>
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Please use the web site <a href="http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rise/" id="OWA38c8e1f4-3be2-69bc-9709-12a288da5752" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">
http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rise/</a> to view the RISE program, register for the symposium, submit poster abstracts and to enter the student poster contest, view talks and posters from past years.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></p>
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<div style="font-size:11pt" class="ContentPasted0">Cheers,</div>
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<div><i><font size="3" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Mitch McClaran<br>
Professor of Range Management, School of Natural Resources and the Environment<br>
Director for Research, Santa Rita Experimental Range<br>
Director, Arizona Experiment Station<br>
Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension<br>
University of Arizona<br>
520-390-9801 (cell)<br>
520-621-1673 (office)<br>
<a href="http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" id="OWAe3d6bdef-4ea2-ef66-44b5-13ea8e900c26" class="OWAAutoLink">http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran</a></font></font><font size="2"><br>
<font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Office Location: 112 Biological Sciences East</font></font></i></div>
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