Cyrus Hester
PhD, 2019, Sustainability (conc. in Complex Adaptive System Science), School of Sustainability
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287-5502
Titles
- PhD, 2019, Sustainability (conc. in Complex Adaptive System Science), School of Sustainability
Biography
Research Assistant Experience
- With Kelli Larson, Water Sustainability and Climate Change: A Cross-Regional Perspective
Education
- PhD, Sustainability, Arizona State University, 2019
- Certificate, Sustainable Practices-Community Sustainability, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2014
- Certificate, Conservation Conflict Resolution, Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Program, 2010
- MS, Zoology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2009
- BS, Zoology (with honors), Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2006
Expertise
Journal Articles
2017
Hirt, P. W., R. Snyder, C. M. Hester and K. L. Larson. 2017. Water and sustainability in Arizona: A tale of two desert cities. Journal of the Southwest 59(1-2):264-301. DOI: 10.1353/jsw.2017.0017. (link )
2016
Hester, C. M. and K. L. Larson. 2016. Time-series analysis of water demands in three North Carolina cities. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 142(8): 05016005-1- 05016005-9. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000659 . (link )
2014
Hester, C. M. and J. Coleman. 2014. Guest Editorial: Between an uncomfortable decision and an absurd one. Groundwater 52(5):645-648. DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12248. (link )
2012
Anderson, C. W., C. K. Nielsen, C. M. Hester, R. D. Hubbard, J. K. Stroud and E. M. Schauber. 2012. Comparison of indirect and direct methods of distance sampling for estimating density of white-tailed deer. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37(1):146-154. DOI: 10.1002/wsb.231. (link )
2008
Spears, B. L., M. W. Brown and C. M. Hester. 2008. Evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyl remediation at a superfund site using tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) as Indicators. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27(12):2512-2520. DOI: 10.1897/07-625.1. (link )
Posters
2018
Hester, C. M. and G. W. Gordon. 2018. Urban versus rural trends in trace metal concentrations as indicated by the spines of long-lived cacti. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Hester, C. M. and K. L. Larson. 2018. Economic, Climatic, and Landscape Drivers of Urban Water Demand in Arizona: 1991-2011. Poster presented at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting, February 14-19, 2018, Austin, Texas.
2017
Hester, C. M. and K. L. Larson. 2017. The Effect of Economic Press and Pulse Disturbances on Urban Water Demand in Arizona; 1991-2011. Poster presented at the 2017 DCDC Poster Symposium, April 24, 2017, Tempe, AZ.
2016
Hester, C. M. and K. L. Larson. 2016. Investigating the effects of population, policy, and economic change on water use in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona 1990-2013. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2015
Hester, C. M. and K. L. Larson. 2015. A preliminary analysis of water demand and management in metropolitan North Carolina. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Thesis (PhD)
2019
Hester, C. M. 2019. Diagosing a silent epidemic: The historical ecology of metal pollution in the Sonoran Desert. Phd Dissertation. Arizona State University. (link )