Plenary Speakers
Soroosh Sorooshian — Predicting Hydrologic Extremes Under Climate Variability
W James Shuttleworth — New Perspectives on Evapotranspiration
Dennis Lettenmaier — Sensitivity of Colorado Stream Flows to Climate Change
Julio Betancourt — Coping with Non-Stationarity in Water and Ecosystem Management
Session 1
Melanie Culver — Genetics to detect wildlife response to changing environments
Don Falk — Resiliance ecology: restoration for a changing world
Zack Guido — Knowledge into action: Tapping the institutional knowledge of U.S. Wildlife Service to address climate change
Steve Yool — Interannual variability of life fuel moistures and implications for fire in a nonstationary world
Rafe Sagarin — Returning to observational natural history to understand a non stationary world
Session 2
Dennis Lettenmaier — Climate change in the Colorado River Basin: Water management implications
Francina Dominguez — Downscaling and Climate Models for Water Management Applications
Seshadri Rajagopal — Assessing impacts of climate change in a semi-arid watershed using downscaled IPCC climate output
Christopher Castro — Can regional climate models improve summer climate forecasts in North America
Amanda White — Climate-induced regional vegetation change and its hydrological implications
Session 3
Erik Hamerlynck — Ecohydrological consequences of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide
Darrel Jenerette — The ecohydrology of landscape change
Scott Saleska — Water balance and global warming
Session 4
Jeff Silvertooth — Agricultural water use in Arizona: Current conditions and future projections
Chris Scott — Water management in Arizona and relationships to other arid and semi-arid regions
Chris Udall — The scope and impact of agricultural water use in Arizona
Steven Bales — Arizona crop production issues and water resource management
George Frisvold — Economic relationships associated with water use in Arizona agriculture
Session 6
Hoori Ajami — Mountain block recharge
Enrique Vivoni — Exploring hillslope-scale soil moisture and runoff generation through distributed simulations at the Los Alamos Ponderosa Pine study site
Ciaran Harman — Modeling hydrologic partitioning at multiple scales
Marty Frisbee — The role of deep, basin-scale groundwater in streamflow generation from a large, alpine watershed in the headwaters of the Rio Grande
John Wilson — Climate vegetation and recharge
Fengjing Liu — A new modeling tool to determine source waters using natural tracers
Session 7
Juliet Stromberg — Historical vegetation change along the Upper San Pedro River
Glenn Johnson — Riparian bird community dynamics in relation to beaver activity
Carlos Soto — Hydrology, geomorphology and presence and absence of surface water on the San Pedro
Karl Wyant — Water webs on the San Pedro River
Session 8
Vince Tidwell — The impact of climate change on the water energy nexus
Gary Woodard — Coordinating water and energy conservation efforts
Nate Allen — Biosphere 2 testbed
Mark Edwards — Sustainable and affordable food and energy
Session 9
Doosun Kang — Decision support system to aid the Upper San Pedro Partnership
Janie Chermak — Integration of urban water demand experiments into a DSS
Doug Boyle — Modeling local third party effects in a water leasing market
Don Coursey — Results and reflections on water leasing markets
Session 10
Marcy Litvak — Quantifying the sensitivity of vegetation to climate change across a New Mexico elevation gradient
Connie Woodhouse — Seasonality of precipitation reflected in tree-growth/climate relations in the Southwest
Nate McDowell — Pattern and mechanism of climate-driven vegetation mortality
Dave Breshears — Drought, dust, and die-off: Global-change-type changes
Paul Brooks — Snow/vegetation interactions as a major control on basin scale water balance
Session 11
Jim Boyd — The measurement of policy-relevant biophysical goods and services
David Brookshire — Valuation of ecosystem services in the Sand Pedro and Rio Grande rivers
Matt Weber — Public values related to the Santa Cruz
Laura Lopez-Hoffman — Managing ecosystem service that jump across borders
Session 12
Jon Chorover — The JRV-SCM-Critical Zone Observatory in New Mexico and Arizona
Dave Goodrich — USDA National Experimental Network for long-term ecohydrology research
Kathryn Thomas — The role of phenology in monitoring climate change impactys on ecosystems
Mitch McClaran — NEON: A multi-disciplinary, continental-scale observatory for measuring, understanding, and forecasting ecosystem response to environmental change
Session 13
Gary Woodard — Volunteer networks of citizen scientists - an overview and prognosis
Ramon Vazquez — Citizen science in precipitation monitoring - the Rainlog example
Theresa Crimmins — The National Phenology Network's role in monitoring climate change
Candice Rupprecht — QA/QC issues of data from volunteer networks
Session 14
Luis Bastidas — Experiences on evaluating land-surface model performance over the semi-arid Southwest
Terri Hogue — Development of satellite-based evapotranspiration and soil moisture estimates for hydrologic model development and validation
Susan Mniszewski — Increasing model efficiency for high-resolution Baron Fork using basin structure characteristics
Xubin Zeng — Land-atmosphere coupled multiscale modeling and model evaluation: A model developer's perspective
Jennifer McIntosh — Impacts of continental glaciation on groundwater resources: Insights from measurement and modeling