Each year the SAHRA Annual Meeting seeks to serve multiple purposes, but each year we seek to give focus by linking to a theme. This year the meeting will focus on Securing SAHRA’s Legacy, a task that requires both the successful completion of SAHRA’s signature achievements as well as planning for future endeavors that build on these achievements. As a result, this meeting will have a largely internal focus aimed at sharing science results from our last eight years, final planning related to completing SAHRA’s signature products and discussion of post-NSF efforts that build on SAHRA’s legacy.
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| TIME |
LOCATION |
EVENT |
| 3:00 – 9:00 PM |
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Registration and Room Check-in
(if arriving after 9PM please make arrangements with Rannie Fox, rannie@hwr.arizona.edu) |
| 6:00 – 8:00 PM |
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Reception and Dinner for Early Arrivals |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| TIME |
LOCATION |
EVENT |
| 7:30 – 8:30 AM |
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Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM |
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Introductions and Overview
 SAHRA welcoming remarks – Juan Valdes
Welcome to Biosphere 2 – Travis Huxman
NSF welcoming remarks – L. Doug James and Randy Phelps
Where are the stakeholders? Research hits the road – Kathy Jacobs
Overview of SAHRA signature products and meeting goals – James Hogan |
| 10:00 – 10:45 AM |
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Break & Poster Viewing |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM |
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Decision Support, Scenarios, and Stakeholder Engagement
(Moderator: James Hogan)
Review of SAHRA's decision support (DSS) tools and stakeholder engagement signature achievements
Lessons learned in SAHRA's decision support experience – Susanna Eden
The Colorado River: Integrating hydrologic and management perspectives – Rosalind Bark
Scenarios in the field: New stakeholders and applications to integrated models – Holly Hartmann & Steve Stewart
Demonstration of the San Pedro DSS: From theory to practice – Kevin Lansey
Discussion period on SAHRA-related decision support and stakeholder engagement signature products and new directions |
| 12:15 – 1:30 PM |
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Lunch & Poster Viewing |
| 1:30 – 3:00 PM |
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Local, Regional, and International Outreach Activities
(Moderator: Paul Brooks)
Review of SAHRA's outreach services signature achievements
Progress in AHIS data management and portal development – Matthew Garcia
Incorporating groundwater quality data into Arizona Wells – Ramon Vazquez
Southwest Hydrology: Sponsors, new directions and a sustainable future? – Betsy Woodhouse
Colorado River real-time TWS: Application of the SAHRA Geodatabase – Matej Durcik
Volunteer networks: RainLog, Arizona DroughtWatch, and the National Phenology Network – Mike Crimmins
Rainwater harvesting: Demonstration site and web tools – Gary Woodard
Discussion period on SAHRA-related outreach signature products and new directions |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM |
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Break at Rainwater Harvesting Casita |
| 3:30 – 5:00 PM |
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Ecohydrology Processes Studies – Hillslopes to the Landscape
(Moderator: Hoshin Gupta)
Review of SAHRA's ecohydrology signature achievements
Watershed visualization: Hydrology in the classroom – Jim Washburne
Hydrologic residence time in Valles Caldera catchments – Patrick Broxton
Runoff mechanisms in the headwaters of the Rio Grande – Marty Frisbee
Southwest hillslope hydrology: Case studies in the Santa Catalinas, Valles Caldera, and Biosphere 2 – Peter Troch |
| 5:00 – 8:00? PM |
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Reception and Dinner |
| after dinner |
|
Tour of the Biosphere |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| TIME |
LOCATION |
EVENT |
| 7:30 – 8:30 AM |
|
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM |
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SAHRA Fine-Resolution Modeling
(Moderator: Dave Goodrich)
Review of SAHRA's signature achievements in ecohydrology and modeling
Fine-resolution soil moisture simulations: Redondo Creek case study – Taufique Mahmood
Regional soil moisture and vegetation change observations: Ojo Caliente Case Study – Amanda White
Overview of regional-scale simulations for vegetation change analysis – Enrique Vivoni
Discussion of SAHRA's ecohydrologic process and modeling-related signature products and new directions |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM |
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Break & Poster Viewing |
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
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Water Leasing and Non-market Valuation
(Moderator: Gary Woodard)
Review of SAHRA's water leasing and non-market valuation signature achievements
Overview of economic valuation of riparian change: Survey progress and demonstration – David Brookshire
Scenario modeling of hydro-veg-avian changes on the San Pedro and transfer to the Rio Grande – Arriana Brand
Water leasing modeling: Third-party effects – Doug Boyle
Mimbres prototype water-leasing market – Vince Tidwell
Discussion of SAHRA's water leasing and non-market valuation-related signature products and new directions |
| 12:00 – 1:30 PM |
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Lunch & Poster Viewing |
| 1:30 – 3:00 PM |
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Riparian System Dynamics
(Moderator: Betsy Woodhouse)
Review of SAHRA's riparian system dynamics signature achievements
Arizona Rivers: Riparian monitoring and restoration in schools – Jim Washburne
Hydrologic and biogeochemical connectivity on the San Pedro River: Role of seasonality – Tom Meixner
Riparian ecohydrology and evapotranspiration: What have we learned? – Travis Huxman
Salinization of the Rio Grande: 110 Years of Research (8 by SAHRA) – James Hogan
Discussion period on SAHRA's riparian system-related signature products and new directions |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM |
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Break & Poster Viewing |
| 3:30 – 5:00 PM |
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Focus on Future Directions for the SAHRA Center
(Moderator: Kathy Jacobs)
Scenarios for the future and feedback from EAB – Juan Valdes
ICIWaRM: A new partnership with USACE – Aleix Serrat Capdevila
Open discussion on the following questions:
1. Based on the type of business SAHRA will be doing in the post-NSF period, what type of organizational model should we employ?
2. What is advantageous about this structure from an institutional perspective?
3. Why should/would a given person work with this institution?
4. What existing ongoing SAHRA projects would fit under this structure?
5. What new projects/new directions might be pursed with this model? |
| 6:00 – 8:00 PM |
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Reception and Dinner for those staying until Saturday
Evening Hikes and Stargazing to be arranged |
