2024 Symposium

Presentations

TimeSpeaker(s)Title
8:30 - 9:00Registration
9:00 - 9:15Mitch McClaran
UA SNRE & AES
RISE Welcome 20x
9:15 - 9:30Brett Blum
UA SAES Director		Updates and Opportunities at the Santa Rita Experimental Range
9:35 - 9:55Abe Karam
NEON Domain 14 Mgr		Updates and Opportunities with NEON the National Ecological Observatory Network 
10:00 - 10:20Dawn Browning
Jornada Expt Range		Novel use of image time-series to distinguish dryland vegetation responses to wet and dry years
10:25 - 10:45Julia Guglielmo
Altar Valley Cons. All.		Altar Valley Conservation Alliance adventures in range research and management
10:50 - 11:10Michelle Berry
UA History		The power of the cow and other moosings: how words are culture and why it matters
11:15 - 11:35Ashley Rowe
OU BIO		Pain receptors in grasshopper mice: a model for human pain reception
11:40 - 11:50Elise Gornish
UA Desert Lab		Get to Know the Desert Lab
11:50 - 12:00Poster IntroductionsPresenters give a 1-minute advertisement of their poster
12:00 - 1:45Poster Session Lunch w/ PostersProvided at the meeting; included in RISE registration
1:50 - 2:10Sarah Noelle
UA SAES		Santa Rita grazing history: 122 years and counting
2:15 - 2:35Peter Breslin
UA AIR		The future of the saguaro cactus
2:40 - 3:00Laura Norman
USGS		Natural infrastructure in dryland streams (NIDS) can establish regenerative wetland sinks
3:10Poster Awards

Posters

(*=graduate, **=undergraduate in poster contest)

NumberLead AuthorTitle
1Alessandra GorlierSpecies Richness During the 2024 Effort to Start Repeat Photography in August on the Santa Rita Experimental Range
2*Thomas IngallsA Hierarchical Approach for Upscaling Field Litter Data to the Continental Scale
3Shang GaoDeriving Future Stochastic Climate Inputs for Point-Scale Applications in the American Southwest
4*Isabel TorresLitter Decomposition Across the Landscape: Identifying and Characterizing Microsites of Litter Accumulation and Decay in Drylands
5Fangyue ZhangThe Response of Ecosystem Evapotranspiration and its Components to Rainfall Temporal Repackaging in a Semi-arid Grassland
6*Allelua NiyokwizeraLong-term Effects of Litter Manipulations on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in Semi-desert Grasslands
7Elizabeth Trembath-ReichertSingle Cell Stable Isotope Probing for in situ Activity Detection in the Atmosphere
8*Margaret MercerAvoidance of Humans Leads to Temporal Mismatch Between Predators and Prey
9Brett BlumDepartment of Forestry and Fuel Management Fuel Reduction Ideas for the Santa Rita Experimental Range
10*Solomon EdoImpacts of Plant Evapotranspiration and Water Use on Conservation Efforts in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
11Guillermo Ponce-CamposScaling-up Bare Ground Patchiness to Landscape Scales using UAS-trained Satellite Data
12**Doan GoolsbyPredicting Perils: Unraveling Buffelgrass and Stinknet Invasions on the Santa Rita Experimental Range using Random Forest Models
13Erika GalloVariability of Ecosystem Productivity Responses to the 21st Century Megadrought
14**Xiuchen LuRefining PRISM Precipitation Data Through Local Station Integration for Improved Regional Accuracy
Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems
RISE Organizing Committee:

Brett Blum, Phil Heilman, Mitch McClaran, Heather Throop (alphabetical)

bcb@arizona.edu
phil.heilman@usda.gov
mcclaran@u.arizona.edu
heather.throop@asu.edu 

Acronyms:
  • AES: Arizona Experiment Station
    AIR: Arizona Institute for Resilience
  • ARS: Agricultural Research Service
  • NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network
  • SAES: Southern Arizona Experiment Station
  • SNRE: School of Natural Resources and the Environment
    SRER: Santa Rita Experimental Range
  • SWRC: Southwest Watershed Research Center
  • UA: University of Arizona
    UO BIO: Univ Oklahoma School Biological Sciences
  • USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
    USGS: United States Geological Survey