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Twenty-third Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium

Program and Abstracts

Adapting to city life

Asrari, Hasti. The effects of urbanization on the gut microbiome of an urban arthropod pest, the western black widow spider.

Bateman, Heather, Jeff A. Brown, Kelli L. Larson, Annika Enloe, Riley Andrade, and Bryan Hughes. Unwanted residential wildlife: Evaluating social-ecological patterns for snake removals.

Clark, Ryan, and J. Chad Johnson. Spiders in the desert, city and laboratory: What the behavior of black widows can teach us about the impact of urbanization. PDF

Cocroft, Alexandreana, and Sharon Hall. Assessing the influence of income and ethnicity on wildlife in residential neighborhoods. PDF

Dwyer, Jessie M., and Jesse S. Lewis. Urban association of bats varies seasonally in relation to forage and water availability.

Haight, Jeff, Sharon J. Hall, and Jesse S. Lewis. Wildlife communities respond to urban landscape characteristics across the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Lewis, Jesse. Kate Weiss, and Zachary Ziebarth. Wildlife populations in relation to urbanization and landscape features along the Salt River Valley, Arizona.

Polekoff, Sarah, Wan Rong Chua, Ray Pressman, and Pierre Deviche. Exploratory behavior of urban and desert House Finches.

Vanos, Jennifer, Chingwen Cheng, Paul Coseo, Aaron Hess, Allison Ross, Adora Shortridge, Steven Zuiker, Elizabeth Ferguson, Annette Schmidt, Brian Winsor, and Victoria Garrison. Reimagining outdoor play and learning environments in South Phoenix: An overview.

Climate and heat

Gholami, Mansoureh, Alberto Barbaresi, Ariane Middel, Daniele Torreggiani1, and Patrizia Tassinari. Evaluating the impact of urban trees on thermal comfort in Imola, Italy and Tempe, USA. PDF

Li, Rui and Mikhail Chester. Repurposing Mesoscale Traffic Models for Insights into Traveler Heat Exposure Mitigation: ICARUS and the case of Phoenix.

Schneider, Florian A., and Johny Cordova. COPE Phoenix – COol Pavement Evaluation Phoenix. PDF

Education and management

Earl, S. R. CAP LTER informatics: Data management for project investigators and the scientific community. PDF

Goverance and institution

Helmrich, Alysha, and Stephen Elser. Green infrastructure for the Anthropocene: An early career perspective. PDF

Parks and rivers

Cocroft, Alexandreana, and Sharon Hall. Assessing the influence of income and ethnicity on wildlife in residential neighborhoods. PDF

Dwyer, Jessie M., and Jesse S. Lewis. Urban association of bats varies seasonally in relation to forage and water availability.

Haight, Jeff, Sharon J. Hall, and Jesse S. Lewis. Wildlife communities respond to urban landscape characteristics across the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Residential landscapes and neighborhoods

Avilez, D., Davitt, D., Siefert, J., Encinas, Z., Larson, K.L., Brown, J., and Morales-Guerrero, J. Residents’ Attitudes and Experiences with Urban Wildlife: Implications for Human-Wildlife Coexistence.

Brown, J.1, S. J. Hall2, S. Lerman3, K. Larson4, and A. Cocroft2. Perceptions or presence: investigating individuals’ Reporting of mosquitoes as a problem.

Cocroft, Alexandreana, and Sharon Hall. Assessing the influence of income and ethnicity on wildlife in residential neighborhoods. PDF

Encinas, Zane, Kelli Larson, and Jeff Brown. Human-Wildlife Interactions through the Lens of iNaturalist Website Posts. PDF

Gholami, Mansoureh, Alberto Barbaresi, Ariane Middel, Daniele Torreggiani1, and Patrizia Tassinari. Evaluating the impact of urban trees on thermal comfort in Imola, Italy and Tempe, USA. PDF

Haight, Jeff, Sharon J. Hall, and Jesse S. Lewis. Wildlife communities respond to urban landscape characteristics across the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Scenarios and futures

Bisht, Vanya, Amanda Kuhn, Morales Gerrero, Monique Franco, Carrillo, Teo Argueta, and Marta Berbes-Blazquez. Engaging K-12 students in co-designing green urban futures.

Elser, Stephen, Marta Berbes-Blazquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy B. Grimm, David M. Iwaniec, Yeowon Kim, and Marissa A. Matsler. Future ecosystem services: Insights from participatory scenario workshops from nine cities in the United States and Latin America.

Urban design

Bisht, Vanya, Amanda Kuhn, Morales Gerrero, Monique Franco, Carrillo, Teo Argueta, and Marta Berbes-Blazquez. Engaging K-12 students in co-designing green urban futures.

Chandra, Kerrala, and Chingwen Cheng. Analysis of the role of public participation in the implementation of green infrastructure projects in Phoenix, Arizona.

Gholami, Mansoureh, Alberto Barbaresi, Ariane Middel, Daniele Torreggiani1, and Patrizia Tassinari. Evaluating the impact of urban trees on thermal comfort in Imola, Italy and Tempe, USA. PDF

Helmrich, Alysha, and Stephen Elser. Green infrastructure for the Anthropocene: An early career perspective. PDF

Trakas, Amanda, Paul Coseo, and Chingwen Cheng. Where the water flows: plant community profiles in natural desert xeroriparian environments.

Water and fluxes

Bearman, S., J. Das, and H. Hartnett. The dread pirate robots: Autonomous mapping of water temperature and salinity in Tempe Town Lake.

Hartnett, Hilairy, Crystal Alverez, and Elinor Sauer. The neverending story – 16 years of water quality measurement in Tempe Town Lake. PDF

Liddle, D., B. Ball, and J. Nishimura. Urban forestry as a carbon offset method at ASU West campus.

Sauer, E., D. Glaser, and H. Hartnett. On the road to quantifying whole-lake metabolism in Tempe Town Lake.

Williamson, Maya, and Becky Ball. Soil community responses to multiple co-occurring forms of human-Induced environmental change. PDF