Fifth Annual Symposium
Recent research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental
Watershed (WGEW) and the
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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.
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00-9:05 |
Mitch McClaran andSusan Moran |
RISE Welcome |
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9:05-9:10 |
Mary
Nichols |
Update: New Research Opportunities at WGEW |
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9:10-9:15 |
Mitch McClaran |
Update: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) |
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9:15-9:20 |
George Ruyle |
Update: Livestock Grazing Management Program on SRER |
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9:20-9:25 |
Jake Weltzin |
Update: USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) |
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9:30-9:50 |
Russ Scott |
Taking the pulse of a mesquite savanna on the Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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9:50-10:10 |
Erik Hamerlynck |
Rapid carbon-exchange responses of intact desert grassland to a simulated rainfall pulse |
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Pierre Deviche ASU SOLS |
TBD |
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10:30-11:00 |
Poster introductions |
Poster abstracts presented by poster authors. |
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11:00-1:00 |
Poster Session
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Authors will be with their posters in the hall outside the conference room. |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch w/ Posters |
Provided at the meeting; included in RISE registration fee |
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1:00-1:15 |
Peter Gierlach
(Petey Mesquitey)
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Thank You Jack Kerouac: Observations from life in a semiarid ecosystem |
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1:20-1:40 |
Steve Archer |
Shrub encroachment, land management and litter decomposition |
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1:40-2:00 |
Jeff Stone |
Erosion processes and the loamy upland state and transition model, S.E. Arizona |
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2:00-2:20 |
Here come the shrubs: Long-term change in perennial vegetation on the Nevada Test Site |
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2:20-2:30 |
Discussion |
All speakers and poster authors will be in attendance. |
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RISE Organizing Committee: Mark Heitlinger, Mitch McClaran, Susan Moran
markh@Ag.arizona.edu |
Acronyms:ARS: Agricultural Research Service |