Session 1: Managing Land and Ecosystems

Lisa Graumlich
Diana Liverman (UA)
Don Falk (UA)
Scott Seleska (UA)

Melanie Culver (UA)
Genetics to detect wildlife response to changing environments

Don Falk (UA)
Resilience ecology: Restoration for a changing world

Zack Guido (UA)
Knowledge into action: Tapping the institutional knowledge of U.S. Wildlife Service to address climate change

Steve Yool (UA)
Interannual variability of life fuel moistures and implications for fire in a nonstationary world

Rafe Sagarin (UA): Returning to observational natural history to understand a nonstationary world

Session 2: Downscaling and Climate Models for Water Management Applications

How do we evaluate the local effects of global change?

Francina Dominguez (UA)
Chris Castro (UA)

Dennis Lettenmaier (UW)
Climate change in the Colorado River Basin: Water management implications

Seshadri Rajagopal (UA)
Assessing impacts of climate change in a semi-arid watershed using downscaled IPCC climate output

Christopher Castro (UA)
Can regional climate models improve summer climate forecasts in North America?

Amanda White (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Climate-induced regional vegetation change and its hydrological implications

Session 3: Synthesis/Scenarios

We’ve been studying the ecohydrology of climate change for 15 years now… What have we learned?

Travis Huxman (UA)
Darrel Jenerette (UC Riverside)

Erik Hamerlynck (USDA-ARS Tucson)
Ecohydrological consequences of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

Darrel Jenerette (UC Riverside)
The ecohydrology of landscape change

Scott Saleska (UA)
Water balance and global warming

Panel discussion to follow.

Session 4: Managing Agricultural Systems

Jeffrey Silvertooth (UA)
Chris Scott (UA)
Chris Scott

Jeff Silvertooth (UA)
Agricultural water use in Arizona: Current conditions and future projections

Chris Scott (UA)
Water management in Arizona and relationships to other arid and semi-arid regions

Chris Udall (Arizona AgriBusiness Council)
The scope and impact of agricultural water use in Arizona

Steven Bales (AZ Cotton Growers Assn)
Arizona crop production issues and water resource management

George Frisvold (UA)
Economic relationships associated with water use in Arizona agriculture

Session 5: Water Planning in a Nonstationary Environment (WSP)

A panel of state and local water managers discuss coping with nonstationarity.

Sharon Megdal (UA)
Jackie Moxley (UA)

Panelists:
Tom Buschatzke (City of Phoenix)
Sandra Fabritz-Whitney (ADWR)
Ralph Marra (Tucson Water)
David Modeer (CAP)
Bill Plummer (consultant)
John Sullivan (SRP)

Panel Format, with Q&A to follow.

Session 6: Runoff Generation Sources and Residence Times

How can we quantify hydrologic partitioning from hillslope to catchment scales?

Peter Troch (UA)
Fred Phillips (NMT)

Hoori Ajami (UA)
Mountain block recharge

Enrique Vivoni (ASU)
Exploring hillslope-scale soil moisture and runoff generation through distributed simulations at the Los Alamos Ponderosa Pine study site

Ciaran Harman (University of Illinois)
Modeling hydrologic partitioning at multiple scales

Marty Frisbee (NMT)
The role of deep, basin-scale groundwater in streamflow generation from a large, alpine watershed in the headwaters of the Rio Grande

John Wilson (NMT)
Climate vegetation and recharge

Fenjing Liu (UC Merced)
A New Modeling Tool to Determine Source Waters Using Natural Tracers

Session 7: Stream Riparian Systems

Bugs, birds and beavers: interactions and  impacts on the San Pedro River.

Juliet Stromberg (ASU)
Dave Goodrich (USDA)
Tom Meixner (UA)

Juliet Stromberg (ASU)
Historical vegetation change along the Upper San Pedro River

Glenn Johnson (ASU)
Riparian bird community dynamics in relation to beaver activity

Carlos Soto (UA)
Hydrology, geomorphology and the presence and absence of surface water on the San Pedro

Karl Wyant (ASU)
Water webs on the San Pedro River

Session 8: The Water/Energy Nexus

How are climate change and sustainable energy development impacting the water/energy nexus?

Vince Tidwell (Sandia National Labs)
Gary Woodard (UA)

Vince Tidwell (Sandia National Labs)
The impact of climate change on water energy nexus

Gary Woodard (UA)
Coordinating water and energy conservation efforts

Nate Allen (UA)
Biosphere 2 testbed

Mark Edwards (ASU)
Sustainable and affordable food and energy

Session 9: Integrating Models for Water Resource Allocation and DSS

How can decision support systems improve water management in a changing world? Under what conditions are water leasing markets feasible?

Doug Boyle (Desert Research Institute)
Kevin Lansey (UA)

Doosun Kang (UA)
Decision support system to aid the Upper San Pedro Partnership

Janie Chermak (UNM)
Integration of urban water demand experiments into a DSS

Doug Boyle (Desert Research Institute)
Modeling local third party effects in a water leasing market

Don Coursey (Univ. of Chicago)
Results and reflections on water leasing markets

Session 10: Mountain Ecohydrology

How do changes in climate and vegetation interact to control water availability at ecosystem to basin scales?

Marcy Litvak (UNM)
Paul Brooks (UA)

Marcy Litvak (UNM)
Quantifying the sensitivity of vegetation to climate change across a New Mexico elevation gradient

Connie Woodhouse (UA)
Seasonality of precipitation reflected in tree-growth/climate relations in the Southwest

Nate McDowell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Pattern and mechanism of climate-driven vegetation mortality

Dave Breshears (UA)
Drought, dust, and die-off: Global change -type changes

Paul Brooks (UA)
Snow/vegetation interactions as a major control on basin scale water balance 

Session 11: Valuation of Ecosystem Services

What are the issues and methods for determining values of ecosystem services?

Jim Boyd (Resources for the Future)
David Brookshire (UNM)

Jim Boyd (Resources for the Future)
The measurement of policy-relevant biophysical goods and services

David Brookshire (UNM)
Valuation of ecosystem services in the San Pedro River and the Rio Grande

Matt Weber (EPA Corvallis)
Public values related to the Santa Cruz

Laura Lopez-Hoffman (UA)
Managing ecosystem services that jump across borders

Session 12: Interdisciplinary Environmental Observatory

How can multi-scale high-resolution measurements improve understanding of ecosystem response to environmental change?

Chris Duffy (Penn State)
Dave Goodrich (USDA)

Jon Chorover (UA)
The JRV-SCM-Critical Zone Observatory in New Mexico and Arizona

Dave Goodrich (USDA)
USDA National Experimental Network for long-term ecohydrology research

Kathryn Thomas (UA)
The role of phenology in monitoring climate change impacts on ecosysystems

Mitch McClaran (UA)
NEON: A multi-disciplinary, continental-scale observatory for measuring, understanding, and forecasting ecosystem response to environmental change

Session 13: Environmental Monitoring via Citizen Science

What are the opportunities and challenges in using volunteer networks for environmental monitoring?

Gary Woodard (UA)
Jake Weltizin (NPN)

Gary Woodard (UA)
Volunteer networks of citizen scientists – an overview and prognosis

Ramon Vazquez (UA)
Citizen science in precipitation monitoring – the RainLog example

Theresa Crimmins (UA)
The National Phenology Network's role in monitoring climate change

Candice Rupprecht  (UA)
QA/QC issues of data from volunteer networks

Session 14: Multiscale Modeling

How can multiscale modeling improve understanding of ecosystem response to environmental change?

Larry Winter (UA)
Soroosh Sorooshian (UC Irvine)
Everett Springer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Hoshin Gupta (UA)

Luis Bastidas (Utah State Univ.)
Experiences on evaluating land-surface model performance over the semi-arid Southwest

Terri Hogue (UCLA)
Development of satellite-based evapotranspiration and soil moisture estimates for hydrologic model development and validation

Susan Mniszewski (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Increasing model efficiency for high-resolution Baron Fork using basin structure characteristics

Xubin Zeng (UA)
Land-atmosphere coupled multiscale modeling and model evaluation: A model developer's perspective

Jennifer McIntosh (UA)
Impacts of continental glaciation on groundwater resources: Insights from measurement and modeling