Program Schedule

Saturday, November 1 2025
Integrated Learning Center, Room 150, University of Arizona

Time Speaker(s) Title
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Mitch McClaran
UA SNRE & AES
 RISE Welcome
9:10 - 9:30 Abe Karam
NEON Domain 14 Mgr 		Updates and opportunities with NEONthe National Ecological Observatory Network
9:35 - 9:55 Brett Blum
UA AES Director 		Updates and opportunities at the Santa Rita Experimental Range
10:00 - 10:20 Amber Morin
Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape 		Sentinal Landscape Program in the Southwest
10:25 - 10:45 Rebecca Kariuki
SOS ASU		  Land Use Change and Stakeholder Engagement in Global Rangelands
10:50 - 11:10 Steve Prager
Director, A-W Research Ranch		 Science, Conservation, and Community on the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch of the National Audubon Society 
11:15 - 11:35 Flavie Audoin
SNRE UA		 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralist
11:40 - 12:00 Tristan Goulden
NEON		 Opportunities with the NEON Airborne Observation Platform 
12:00 - 12:15 Poster Introductions Presenters give a 1-minute advertisement of their poster
12:00 - 1:45 Poster Session Lunch w/ Posters Provided at the meeting; included in RISE registration
1:50 - 2:10 Valerie Trouet
LTRR UA 		Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings 
2:15 - 2:35 Shang Gao
SNRE UA 		Parsing Post-Fire Recovery: A High-Resolution Look at Climate and Grazing Effects on Rangelands 
2:40 - 3:00 Theresa Crimmins
NPN SNRE UA 		A Field in Full Bloom: From Volunteer Observations to Critical Climate Science 
3:10 Poster Awards

POSTERS

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

Number Lead Author Title
1    
2    
3    
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