Tag Archives: ULTRA

Interactions between urban water policy, residential irrigation, and plant & bird diversity in the Fresno-Clovis Metro Area

Posted on August 13, 2011 by aranyak

http://precedings.nature.com/viewer.swf?doc=npre.2011.6228.1 via precedings.nature.com

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As Ecosystems, Cities Yield Some Surprises – a report on the ULTRA-Ex symposia at ESA 2011

Posted on August 13, 2011 by aranyak

As I have been tootin my own horn in several posts here this past week, I co-organized two symposia (1 & 2 and a workshop on Wednesday for a day of Urban Stewardship at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the … Continue reading →

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Water management & urban resilience: a talk given at the Resilience 2011 conference

Posted on March 16, 2011 by aranyak

I presented the above talk last Saturday afternoon at the Resilience 2011 conference held on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe over the past few days. Here’s the abstract of my talk: Resilience in an urban socioecological system: … Continue reading →

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Andrew Jones’s presentation on Socio-ecological Systems

Posted on September 25, 2010 by aranyak

http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socio-ecologicalsystems-100925022248-phpapp01&stripped_title=socio-ecological-systems via slideshare.net Those are the slides Andrew used for his talk in the Biology Colloquium on Friday. I have recorded audio of his talk as well, and will try to add it here ove the next few days.

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Socioecological systems: moving beyond the human exemptionalist paradigm

Posted on September 24, 2010 by aranyak

My friend, collaborator, and comrade, Andrew Jones from the dept. of Sociology on our campus will speak in the Biology Colloquium today about the conceptual framework that is helping us understand/unravel the relationships between human water use and biodiversity in … Continue reading →

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Water: a critical source of sustenance and existential angst for cities everywhere

Posted on June 25, 2010 by aranyak

via youtube.com I found the above video via my friend (and once-and-future collaborator) David Lewis’ Facebook page, after realizing that he was among the initial recipients of an ULTRA-Exploratory award. More interestingly, his team is also studying questions about urban … Continue reading →

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Resilience in an urban socioecological system: water management as a driver of landscape and biodiversity in the Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area, California.

Posted on June 25, 2010 by aranyak

As noted here a couple of weeks ago, I recently received word of being awarded my first National Science Foundation grant for a collaborative project on urban water use and biodiversity here in the growing Fresno-Clovis Metro Area. This is the biggest grant … Continue reading →

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The squeaky wheel gets the worm after all…

Posted on May 28, 2010 by aranyak

That is one of my favorite mixed metaphors of all time, courtesy of Ted Case, who taught a pretty awesome Ecology class that I took as a grad student at UCSD a long time ago. He was discussing something about … Continue reading →

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