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Previous Symposium March 7-10, 2022 | Simposio Anterior: 7-10 de Marzo de 2022
Monday, March 7th
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Sonoran Desert Field Trips
5:00 - 8:00 PM: Opening Reception - Exhibit by CEDO Intercultural and Scientific Poster Session at the ISDA Learning Center
Tuesday, March 8th
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration at the Curley School Auditorium
9:00 - 10:30 AM: Opening Plenary
Tri-lingual Welcome by the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) Board of Directors
Keynote Address by Rafael Barceló Durazo, Consul of Mexico
Plenary Session: Sonoran Desert Native Fish, CEDO Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans
Special Awards Presentation
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 1
Sonoran Desert Native Fish Working Group
Pathogen in the Sonoran Desert (Roth) & From Waste to Conservation: Using Treated Effluent to Support Endangered Aquatic Species and Ecosystems in the Sonoran Desert (Bogan)
The Man Who Cuts the Heads Off of Plants: Afield with Botanist Richard S. Felger (Wilder, Rutman & Broyles)
Tracking Indigenous Trails across the Gila's Great Bend (Wright - Archeology Southwest Track)
12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 2
Sonoran Desert Native Fish Working Group
A Resource for Plant Identification: Sue Rutman's Webpage on the AZ Native Plant Society Website (Rutman) & Assessment of Human Development Affecting the Sonoran Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) Population and its Biological Corridor at El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve, Sonora, Mexico (Grageda/Bogan)
Camino del Diablo: The Real Route (Evans) & A French Geographer’s Exploration of the Pinacates 1877-78 (Hartman)
Preservation and Regenerative Agriculture Along the Great Bend of the Gila (Dax - Archeology Southwest Track)
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 3
Sonoran Desert Native Fish Working Group
Landscapes and Vegetation of the Barry M Goldwater Range - East (Malusa) & Battling a Beautiful Beast: Stinknet on the Barry M. Goldwater Range East (Shepherd)
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s Archaeological Methods Along the Border (Kingston) & Organ Pipe National Monument Surface Collection Results (Loendorf)
Kwatsan Views on the Archaeology of the Lower Gila River (Arrow & White - Archeology Southwest Track)
4:00 - 5:00 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 4
The Camino Del Diablo After the Wall: Where Do We Go From Here? (Johnson et. al.)
Patterns and Drivers of Three Decades of Change in Breeding Bird Communities in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Flesch) & Aquatic Invertebrates of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument's Rock Pools (Washko)
Identifying Barriers to Tortoise Movement: Using High-Resolution GPS Data to Inform Landscape Connectivity Models (Sutor) & Sonoran Desert Toad: Psychedelic Unholy Grail (Villa)
5:30 - 7:00 PM: Networking Dinner at the Sonoran Desert Inn & Conference Center with special presentation from Dr. Gary Nabhan: “The Desert Smells Like Rain Garden” (separately ticketed event)
6:00 - 8:00 PM: Cabeza Prieta Natural History Association Annual Photo Show at the Art Under the Arches Gallery in the Ajo Plaza (open to the public)
Wednesday March 9th
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration at the Curley School Auditorium
9:00 - 10:45 AM: Plenary Session
US Biosphere Network, Cliff McCreedy, National Park Service | Charter-Culturally Significant Plant Species Initiative
Keynote Address by Verlon Jose, Governor of the Traditional O’odham Leaders in Mexico
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 5
Film and discussion - The Pilgirmage to Magdalena (Border Community Alliance)
The Role of Horticultural Propagation for Rare Species Conservation: Liveforevers (Dudleya sp.) in a Case Study (Alison and Evans)
Cremated Animal Bones and the Hia C-ed O'odham & A Consideration of Plant Resource Procurement in the Western Papaguería, Arizona (Duke)
Eighty Years of Bird Changes in Response to Habitat Management Shifts at Quitobaquito Springs (Nabhan) & Repeat Session TBD
12:15 - 1:15 PM: Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 6
Telling Un(der)-told Stories of Quitobaquito: O’odham Oral Histories of a Sonoran Desert Oasis (Eiler, Gentry, Kingston, Orsi and Schnee)
The Natural History of the Four North American Deserts (Madej)
Trincheras Decorated Pottery: New Insights into its Temporal and Spatial Variability (Claypatch)
"Many Indians Died": The Hia Ced O'odham and the 1851 Yellow Fever Epidemic (Martinez)
2:45 - 3:45 PM: Simultaneous Sessions 7
Rings and Roars: Voices of Bell Rocks in Ancestral O'odham (Hohokam) Ritual (Hernbrode)
Next Generation of the Borderlands: Our Bilingual Conservation Internship Program (Godinez, Burns and Palma) & Free the Earth Garden (Murrieta-Saldivar and Brott)
Origins of Yavapai in West Central Arizona (Newton) & Repeat Session TBD
Looking Back at the Wall (Laugharn)
4:00 - 5:00 PM: Plenary: Film and Discussion - Healing the US/Mexico Border: Indigenous Voices for Solutions (Eiler, Nabhan, Monti, Nunez and Jose)
6:00 - 8:00 PM: Dinner in the Desert at Darby Wells Hia C-ed O’odham Homestead with storytelling by Arthur Wilson (separately ticketed event)
Thursday, March 10th
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration at the Curley School Auditorium
9:00 - 10:00 AM: Simultaneous Sessions 8
Developing Tourism and Healing Ecosystems Through Ecological Restoration: A Case Study of the Sky Island Borderlands (Clark) - Recording & Factors Affecting Bighorn Sheep Activity at Water Developments in Southwest Arizona (Terry)
Southwest Border Resource Protection Program (Muddle and Rossi)
Repeat Session TBD
A Peek at a Fascinating Life: Lorraine Marquez Eiler Through Time (Eiler and Hartman)
10:30 - 11:30 AM: Simultaneous Sessions 9
Never Enough: The History of Wells in the Gunsight (Schuchuligk) Area (Rutman)
Southwest Border Resource Protection Program (Muddle and Rossi)
Analysis of the Conservation Status of the Sonoyta Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale) (Grageda and Bogan)
Sonoran Desert Journeys (Coutts)
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: Closing Plenary
Edward Abbey South and West of Ajo, Bill Broyles
Closing Remarks, Dr. Nelida Barajas Acosta, CEDO Intercultural
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Post-convening Conversation: Discussions on the Southwest Border Resource Protection Program [Organ Pipe Classroom]
Previous Symposium: March 9-12, 2020 | Simposio Anterior: 9-12 de Marzo de 2020