Fifth Annual Symposium

 

Recent research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) and the University of Arizona Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER)
 

 


University of Arizona, Tucson, Marley Building, Rm. 230 [MAP]
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 8:30AM to 2:30PM


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Past Symposiums: 2004 2005 2006 2007

We would like to announce the fifth annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium.  The objectives of the symposium are to share recent results of scientific 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.

The Symposium will feature invited speakers presenting either recent research on the WGEW or SRER or new reflections on earlier work conducted at either site.  There will be time for questions from the audience, which will be made up of federal agency and university researchers, students, and stakeholders from southern Arizona. 

8:30-9:00

Registration

 

9:00-9:05

Mitch McClaran and

Susan Moran

RISE Welcome

9:05-9:10

Mary Nichols
USDA-ARS SWRC

Update: New Research Opportunities at WGEW

9:10-9:15

Mitch McClaran
UA SNR

Update: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

9:15-9:20

George Ruyle
UA SNR

Update: Livestock Grazing Management Program on SRER

9:20-9:25

Jake Weltzin
USA-NPN

Update: USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN)

9:30-9:50

Russ Scott
USDA-ARS SWRC

Taking the pulse of a mesquite savanna on the Santa Rita Experimental Range

9:50-10:10

Erik Hamerlynck
USDA-ARS SWRC

Rapid carbon-exchange responses of intact desert grassland to a simulated rainfall pulse

10:10-10:30 Pierre Deviche
ASU SOLS
TBD

10:30-11:00

Poster introductions

Poster abstracts presented by poster authors.

11:00-1:00

Poster Session
(Accepting submissions)

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

1:00-1:15

Peter Gierlach (Petey Mesquitey) 
 KXCI Radio

Thank You Jack Kerouac: Observations from life in a semiarid ecosystem

1:20-1:40

Steve Archer
UA SNR

Shrub encroachment, land management and litter decomposition

1:40-2:00

Jeff Stone
USDA-ARS SWRC

Erosion processes and the loamy upland state and transition model, S.E. Arizona

2:00-2:20

Robert Webb, T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, and P.A. Medica
USGS

Here come the shrubs: Long-term change in perennial vegetation on the Nevada Test Site

2:20-2:30

Discussion

All speakers and poster authors will be in attendance.

 

 

RISE Organizing Committee:

Mark Heitlinger, Mitch McClaran, Susan Moran

markh@Ag.arizona.edu
mcclaran@u.arizona.edu

Susan.Moran@ars.usda.gov

Acronyms:

ARS: Agricultural Research Service
ASU: Arizona State University
SOLS: School of Life Sciences
SNR: School of Natural Resources
SRER: Santa Rita Experimental Range
SWRC: Southwest Watershed Research Center
UA: University of Arizona
USA-NPN: USA National Phenology Network
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
USGS: United States Geological Survey
WGEW: Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed