IALC Conference
and Workshop Proceedings
(Papers, abstracts, and slide shows listed below)
ASSESSING CAPABILITIES OF SOIL AND WATER RESOURCES IN DRYLANDS:
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DISSEMINATION TECHNOLOGIES
Conference:
20-23 October 2002
Workshop: 24-25 October 2002
Conference Themes
Collecting and Organizing
Soil & Water Data in Dryland Regions:
Techniques & Strategies
Electronic Access to
Soil and Water Data:
Demonstrations of Interactivity & Usability
Information Gateways,
Portals, and Learning Tools:
Demonstrating the Future
The IALC wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support
of the USDA Forest Service and
the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education,
and Extension Service (CSREES) for this conference and workshop.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Note: The papers from this conference will be published
in the
Arid
Lands Newsletter, Issue 52 (Winter 2003).
Organizer
IALC
Preface
Donald A. Hegwood
(paper: html version, pdf version)
Overview
Dryland Environments
Peter F. Ffolliott, Jeffrey O. Dawson, James
T. Fisher, Itshack Moshe, Tim E. Fulbright,
Abdullah Al Musa; Carter Johnson & Paul Verburg
(paper: html version published in the Arid
Lands Newsletter, pdf version, & slide
show)
Planning and Managing Soil and Water Resources in Drylands:
Role of Watershed Management
Kenneth N. Brooks & M'hammed Tayaa
(paper: html version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version, & slide
show)
Spatial Variability in Arid Soils: Sampling and Characterization
Issues
Dale W. Johnson, R.B. Susfalk, W.W. Miller, J.M. Murphy, D.E. Todd,
Jr., P.Verburg
& R.F. Walker
(paper: html version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version & slide
show)
Collection and Organization of Source Data
Cathy E. McGuire
(paper: html version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version & slide
show)
Assessing the Capabilities of Soil and Water Resources
Daniel G. Neary, Leonard F. DeBano & Malchus B. Baker, Jr. (deceased)
(paper: html version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version, & slide
show)
Producing, Conserving, and Sustaining Soil and Water
Resources: The Role of Watershed Management
Peter F. Ffolliott & Kenneth N. Brooks
(paper: html
version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version)
Information Access Challenges and Opportunities
Roy Tennant
(abstract: html version, pdf version)
An Interactive Virtual Museum Soil Museum: A Pilot
Project of the International Soil Reference and Information Centre
(ISRIC) with Focus on Arid Soils
Otto
Spaargaren, Jan Erik Wien, Onno Roosenschoon & Willem-Jan Jansen
(paper: html
version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version & slide
show)
EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal of
the World Resources Institute
Daniel B. Tunstall
(abstract: html version, pdf version & slide
show)
Soils, Land and Desertification Information Sharing:
Issues and Opportunities for a Cooperative Undertaking
Eugene A. Fosnight & Ashbindu Singh
(abstract: html version, pdf version)
An Overview of SAHRA: Its Role in Making Water Information
Accessible Soroosh Sorooshian
(abstract: html version, pdf version & slide
show)
Structuring Internet-based Water Resources Information:
Supporting Research Synergies and Informing Policy Makers
Gary C. Woodward
(abstract: html version, pdf version & slide
show)
Learning from Communities - Integrating Local Knowledge
into Bank-Supported Projects
Reinhard Woytek
(abstract: html version, pdf version & slide
show)
Portals & Web Services
Timothy Lynch
(abstract: html version, pdf
version)
Interactional Digital Libraries: Uses & Users
Anita Coleman
(paper: html
version published in the Arid
Lands Newsletter, pdf version,
& slide show)
Building a Global Arid Lands Information System: A
Collaborative Approach
Barbara Hutchinson
(paper: html
version published
in the Arid Lands Newsletter, pdf
version & slide
show)
Slide Shows
Water Crisis In Israel
Gideon Witkon (slide show)
Badia Vision
Sharifa Zein bint Nasser (slide show)
Rehabilitating Degraded Areas of the Negev
Itshack Moshe
(abstract: pdf version, slide
show)
Poster Papers
Aquaculture Development Potential in Arizona, a GIS-based
Approach
Dennis McIntosh, Tammy K. Baldwin
& Kevin Fitzsimmons
(paper: pdf
version)
The Arizona Electronic Atlas: A Dynamic Resource
for Soil, Water and Environmental Data
Christine Kollen & Jeanne
Pfander
(abstract: html version, pdf version)
Assessing the Impacts of Prescribed Burning on Soil
and Water Resources of Oak Savannas in the Southwestern United
States
Gerald J. Gottfried, Daniel G.
Neary & Ronald J. Bemis
(paper: pdf version)
A Baseline to Determine the Potential Distribution
and Invasiveness of Buffel Grass in Arid Regions of Mexico:
Distributed
Databases of Specimens, Observations, and Digital Cartography
Laura Arriaga, Alejandro E. Castellanos
& Diego Valdez (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Characterization and Proposition of Silvicultural
Treatments for a Plantation of Tamarugo (Prosopis Tamarugo)
in
the Atacama Desert, Chile
Pablo Garcia & Antonio Vita
(paper: pdf version)
Current Status of Monitoring Runoff, Precipitation,
and Soil Moisture at the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed
Mariano Hernandez (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Edu-Venture Trail: A Demonstration of Arid Land Techniques
Lee J. Clark & E. Randall Norton (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Ethnopedological Surveys: An Example from The Senegal
River Valley
J.A. Tabor (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Geographical Distribution of Drylands in Asia with
Regard to Its Water Resources
Ali Valikhojeini Ali
(paper: pdf version)
Logging of Burned Pines and Rill Erosion in Mediterranean
Drylands
Angeles Garcia Mayor, Susana
Bautista
& Teresa Gimeno
(paper: pdf
version)
Overview of Activities: AGRHYMET Regional Centre
André Nonguierma, Djaby Bakari, Sankung B. Sagnia & Issoufou
Ali (abstract: html version, pdf version)
The Process of Creating the Sonoran Desert Website
Christina Kennedy (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Prospects for Water Harvesting in Northern Senegal
Ahmed Fall (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Quantifying the Integration of Olive Production &
Inland Shrimp Farming
Chad King, Dennis McIntosh, Erin
Ryder, Kevin Fitzsimmons & Craig Collins (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Range Management Databases on the Web: Two Examples
George Ruyle,
Barbara Hutchinson, Michael Haseltine, & Steve Barker
(paper, pdf
version)
Rangeview – A New Web Based Tool for Providing
Remote Sensing Products and Data to Natural Resource Managers
in the Western States
Stuart E. Marsh, Barron J. Orr,
Barbara Hutchinson, Anne Thwaits, Larry Howery, George Ruyle,
Paul Krausman
& Andrea Heydlauff
(abstract: html version, pdf
version)
Santa Rita Experimental Range: Accomplishments and
Contributions Over One-hundred Years
Mitchel P. McClaran & Peter
F. Ffolliott (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Southwest Watershed Research Center
USDA Agricultural Research Service
(paper: html version, pdf
version
A Spatial Decision Support System for Rangeland Watershed
Management
Ryan C. Miller, D. Phillip Guertin
& Philip Heilman (abstract: html version, pdf version)
WALTER: A Model for Wildfire Alternatives
Barron J. Orr (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Water Use by Rootstocks of Emory Oak Coppice
D. Catlow Shipek, Leonard F.
DeBano, Gerald J. Gottfried & Peter F. Ffolliott
(paper: html version, pdf
version)
Web-based Monitoring and Data Acquisition in Controlled
Environment Agriculture
C.Y. Choi, E. Fitz-Rodriguez &
S.O’Shaughnessy (abstract: html version, pdf version)
Web Access to Watershed Management Data and Information
Malchus B. Baker, Jr. (deceased),
Michael Haseltine, Carla Casler, Barron J. Orr, Yuko Yamaguchi
& Yu Yang
(paper:
html version published in the Arid
Lands Newsletter, pdf
version)
Organizer
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The International Arid Lands Consortium's (IALC) 9 Member Institutions
include:
- The University of Arizona
- Desert Research Institute - Nevada
- Higher Council for Science and Technology - Jordan
- The University of Illinois
- Jewish National Fund
- Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation - Egypt
- New Mexico State University
- South Dakota State University
- Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Purpose
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The focus of the IALC conference was the
importance, role, and capabilities of soil and water resources in
the planning and management of dryland regions, and electronic access
to soil and water data: demonstrations of interactivity and usability
The focus of the international workshop was the use of electronic
resources available through World Wide Websites, interactive decision-making
tools, new internet technologies, and other electronic means to assist
in the planning and management of soil and water resources for developmental
activities.
Problem Statement
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One-half of the world's countries
have portions or all of their land in dryland environments, including
hyper-arid, arid, and semiarid zones. These lands and their sub-humid
margins account for 45 million km2, or approximately one-third of
the Earth's surface. It is here where land and environmental degradation
is occurring at an alarming rate and threatening the livelihood of
nearly 900 million people, or one-fifth of the human population in
the world. During the last half of the 20th Century, these sensitive
areas have come under increasing pressure from accelerating human
impacts and adverse climatic change. Severe conditions such as drought,
famine, land and resource degradation, and economic disruption are
well-documented. To alleviate these conditions requires long-term
solutions based on a sound research base, holistic planning, practical
and cost-efficient managerial methods, and a clear understanding
of the inherent capabilities of the base soil and water resources
needed to support people's interventions and developmental activities.
If these people are to thrive in the world's drylands, they especially
need to be cognizant of the scarcity and security issues related
to their water and soil resources. To achieve this end, they also
need ready-access to a universally available pool of the most current
knowledge and information regarding these resources so that appropriate
policies can be formulated and emerging developmental technologies
applied where appropriate. It is to this purpose that the conference
and workshop will be focused.
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