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| 8:3    | # Registration    |                                         |
| 0-9:00 |                   |                                         |
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| 9:0    | # M               | RISE Welcome                            |
| 0-9:05 | itch McClaran and |                                         |
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|        | # Susan Moran     |                                         |
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| 9:0    | **Mary Nichols**  | ####### **Updat                         |
| 5-9:10 |                   | e:** New Research Opportunities at WGEW |
|        | **USDA-ARS SWRC** |                                         |
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| 9:1    | **David           | ####### **Update:** Nationa             |
| 0-9:15 | Breshears**       | l Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) |
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|        | **UA SNR**        |                                         |
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| 9:1    | **Mitch           | ####### **Update:** Livest              |
| 5-9:20 | McClaran**        | ock Grazing Management Program on SRER  |
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|        | **UA SNR**        |                                         |
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| 9:2    | **Jake Weltzin**  | **Update:** USA National Phenology      |
| 0-9:25 |                   | Network (USA-NPN)                       |
|        | **USA-NPN**       |                                         |
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| 9:3    | **Russ Scott**    | #####                                   |
| 0-9:50 |                   | ## Taking the pulse of a mesquite savan |
|        | **USDA-ARS SWRC** | na on the Santa Rita Experimental Range |
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| 9:50   | **Erik            | ####### Rapid carb                      |
| -10:10 | Hamerlynck**      | on-exchange responses of intact desert  |
|        |                   | grassland to a simulated rainfall pulse |
|        | **USDA-ARS SWRC** |                                         |
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| 10:10  | **Pierre          | Environmental controls on rufus-winged  |
| -10:30 | Deviche**         | sparrow biology and behavior            |
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|        | **ASU SOLS**      |                                         |
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| 10:30  | Poster            | Poster abstracts presented by poster    |
| -11:00 | introductions     | authors                                 |
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| 11:0   | # Poster Session  | Authors will be with their posters in   |
| 0-1:00 |                   | the hall outside the conference room    |
|        | # (Accep          |                                         |
|        | ting submissions) |                                         |
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| 12:0   | Lunch w/ Posters  | ####### Provided at the mee             |
| 0-1:00 |                   | ting; included in RISE registration fee |
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| 1:0    | # Peter Gie       | Thank You Jack Kerouac: Observations    |
| 0-1:15 | rlach (Petey Mesq | from life in a semiarid ecosystem       |
|        | uitey) KXCI Radio |                                         |
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| 1:2    | ####              | Shrub encroachment, land management and |
| 0-1:40 | ## Heather Throop | litter decomposition                    |
|        |  (NMSU) and Steve |                                         |
|        |  Archer  (UA SNR) |                                         |
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| 1:4    | ###### Jeff Stone | Erosion processes and the loamy upland  |
| 0-2:00 |                   | state and transition model, S.E.        |
|        | **USDA-ARS SWRC** | Arizona                                 |
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| 2:0    | **Cecil           | Frog Wars! Metapopulation response of   |
| 0-2:20 | Schwalbe**        | the Chiricahua leopard frog to bullfrog |
|        |                   | removal                                 |
|        | **UA SNR**        |                                         |
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| 2:2    | Discussion        | ####### All speakers a                  |
| 0-2:30 |                   | nd poster authors will be in attendance |
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POSTERS

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| P1     | # Phil Heilm      | Rangeland Cover Estimates from MODIS   |
|        | an, USDA-ARS SWRC |                                        |
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| P2     | **Jennifer        | Remotely sensed vegetation dynamics    |
|        | Davison, OALS**   | along Sky Island woody plant           |
|        |                   | gradients: barometers of climate       |
|        |                   | change and variability                 |
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| P3     | **Michele         | Two-Site Comparison of Transpiration   |
|        | Cavanaugh, UA     | by Larrea tridentata                   |
|        | SNR**             |                                        |
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| P4     | **Greg            | Integrating measures of soil           |
|        | Barron-Gafford,   | respiration across spatial and         |
|        | UA EEB**          | temporal scales along a woody plant    |
|        |                   | encroachment gradient using            |
|        |                   | traditional and innovative techniques  |
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| P5     | **Jean McLain,    | Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR to    |
|        | USDA-ARS ALARC**  | Examine the Dynamic Role of Soil Fungi |
|        |                   | in C and N Cycling of Rangeland Soils  |
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| P6     | **Lisa Ebbs,      | Spatial Patterns of Soil Organic       |
|        | HHMI-NMSU**       | Carbon and Total Nitrogen in Mesquite  |
|        |                   | Coppice Dunes                          |
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| P7     | **Wade Leitner,   | The Santa Cruz River Bird Monitoring   |
|        | BirdWorks LLC**   | Network                                |
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| P8     | # Julia Fon       | Change in Wetland Cover, 1992-2001,    |
|        | seca, Pima County | Pima County, Arizona                   |
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| P9     | **Kimberly        | Effects of conversion of native        |
|        | Franklin, UA      | rangeland to exotic grass pasture on   |
|        | SNR**             | ant assemblages in Sonora, Mexico      |
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| P10    | **Ashley          | Differences in Buffelgrass abundance   |
|        | Shepherd, UA      | between wash and upland habitats,      |
|        | SNR**             | Santa Rita Experimental Range          |
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| P11    | **Averill Cate,   | The Santa Rita Experimental Range      |
|        | UA SNR**          | Historic Study Area Database Search    |
|        |                   | Application                            |
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| P12    | **Grey Nearing,   | Likelihood calibration of a soil       |
|        | UA ABE**          | moisture model with radar backscatter  |
|        |                   | to account for speckle                 |
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| P13    | **Eva Osmer, UA   | Native grass characteristics within    |
|        | SNR**             | xeroriparian communities of the Barry  |
|        |                   | M. Goldwater Range-East, Arizona       |
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| P14    | **Chris McDonald, | Using a big tool box: Managing Lehmann |
|        | UA SNR**          | lovegrass using multiple techniques    |
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| P15    | **Lisa Benton, UA | Analysis of flowering in the           |
|        | SNR**             | repeat-blooming creosotebush (Larrea   |
|        |                   | tridentata) using ground-based digital |
|        |                   | photography                            |
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| P16    | **Juan C          | Ecohydrological consequences of        |
|        | Villegas, UA      | vegetation cover and seasonality:      |
|        | SNR**             | trends in soil evaporation from a      |
|        |                   | mesquite-dominated gradient at Santa   |
|        |                   | Rita Experimental Range                |
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| P17    | **Daniel B.       | An Exploration of Soil Movement        |
|        | Hewins, NMSU**    | Effects on Leaf Litter Decomposition   |
|        |                   | in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland       |
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| P18    | **Viktor          | Tracing sediment movement on semi-arid |
|        | Polyakov,         | watershed using Rare Earth Elements    |
|        | USDA-ARS SWRC**   |                                        |
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| P19    | **Anna Van        | Does High Xylem Conductance Give       |
|        | Devender, UA      | Prosopis velutina an Advantage?        |
|        | SNR**             |                                        |
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| P20    | **Steve Woods, UA | Precarious seedling establishment in   |
|        | SNR**             | Larrea tridentata: Soil moisture and a |
|        |                   | taproot elongation threshold           |
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| **RISE Organizing            | # Undefined Acronyms:                 |
| Committee:**                 |                                       |
|                              | ABE: Agricultural and Bioscience      |
| Mark Heitlinger, Mitch       | Engineering                           |
| McClaran, Susan Moran        |                                       |
|                              | ARS: Agricultural Research Service    |
| <markh@Ag.arizona.edu>       |                                       |
|                              | ASU: Arizona State University         |
| <mcclaran@u.arizona.edu>     |                                       |
|                              | EEB: Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary  |
| <susan.moran@ars.usda.gov>   | Biology                               |
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|                              | HHMI: Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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|                              | USA-NPN: USA National Phenology       |
|                              | Network                               |
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|                              | NMSU: New Mexico State University     |
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|                              | OALS: Office of Arid Lands Studies    |
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|                              | SOLS: School of Life Sciences         |
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|                              | SNR: School of Natural Resources      |
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|                              | SRER: Santa Rita Experimental Range   |
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|                              | SWRC: Southwest Watershed Research    |
|                              | Center                                |
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|                              | UA: University of Arizona             |
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|                              | USDA: United States Department of     |
|                              | Agriculture                           |
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|                              | USGS: United States Geological Survey |
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|                              | WGEW: Walnut Gulch Experimental       |
|                              | Watershed                             |
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