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Fall 2019

• Weathering the Storm: Our Adobe Brick Test Wall Project
• Two More Vegetation Mapping Projects Completed
• Climate and Water Resources Reports Published
• New Book on Water Resources at Saguaro National Park

Winter 2019

• Learning Center Offers Self-Guided Smartphone Tour
• Insights on Vegetation at Casa Grande Ruins NM
• Vegetation Map Completed for Coronado NMem
• Status of Climate and Water Resources

Issue 6(1) Summer 2016

• Springs Monitoring Begins
• Around the Network: Resource Management Highlights from Montezuma Castle NM and Tumacácori NHP
• The Living Stream

Issue 5(2) Summer 2015

• Something in the Water: Emerging Contaminants Testing in SODN Parks
• Around the Network: Resource Management Highlights from Chiricahua NM, Organ Pipe Cactus NM, and Saguaro NP

Issue 5(1) Summer 2015

• Hola, Humans! CritterCams Come to SODN
• Groundwater Monitoring at CCC-era Wildlife Watering Facilities
• "Yes, and . . . " (Finding Our Inner Amy Poehler)
• BOLO: Bullfrogs!
• The DRLC: Our Living Laboratory
• "Let Me Ask You Something . . ."

Issue 4(2) Summer 2014

• Designing the Desert Research Learning Center: Sustainability in Practice
• MOCA/TUZI BioBlitz Coming in October
• Learning the Art—and Science—of Filmmaking
• Staff profile: Anna Iwaki

Issue 4(1) Spring 2014

• Water Loss on the Santa Cruz River: The Value of Effluent Inputs in a Desert Landscape
• Under Pressure: Measuring Water Stress in Riparian Plants
• Staff profile: Laura Palacios

Issue 3(2) Summer 2013

• The Desert Research Learning Center: Our New Home Away from Home
• The New Wave of Student Scientists
• The SODN Weather Station Revolution

Issue 3(1) Spring 2013

• Climate Monitoring Heats Up: Ham Radio Technology Provides Low-Cost Data
• Weather Stories (also known as stochastic events)
• See What You're Missing Online!

Issue 2(2) Autumn 2012

• Goodbye, Datasheets!
• Staff profile: Shannon McCloskey
• SODN Staff Mentors Young Scientists

Issue 2(1) Spring 2012

• SODN Supports Saguaro NP BioBlitz
• Tales from BioBlitz!
• Staff profile: Cheryl McIntyre
• Is it Hot in Here? Monitoring Response to the Miller, Horseshoe II, and Monument Fires

Issue 1(3) Spring 2011

• Reaching Beyond the Boundaries: The Southwest Network Collaboration
• Staff profile: Kara Raymond
• The Data Came from Outer Space: Stream Gaging Implementation Continues
• PhotoMap: National Parks of the Southwest Network Collaboration

Issue 1(2) Winter 2011

• Natural Resource Condition Assessments Underway
• Have you seen this plant? Matthiola parviflora (Shousb.) (Brassicaceae)
• Staff profile: Kate Connor
• Groundwater In-Depth
• Volunteers Pull Ton of Trash from Santa Cruz

Issue 1(1) Autumn 2010

• Rethinking Regional Floristics: Vegetation Mapping and the Flora of the Sonoran Desert Network
• Staff profile: Steve Buckley
• The Disappearing River: Recent Hydrologic Changes at Tumacácori NHP