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Joby Carlson, Lab Manager at the NCE SMART Innovations was interviewed on the local Channel 3 (KTVK) news. Joby discusses urban heat island mitigation and new technologies the NCE is researching. Forgive us for the low quality video. [flv:http://www.asusmart.com/video/smart_news_9_19_2006.flv 320 240] © 2006 , KTVK-TV http://www.azfamily.com

Article in the Times Online by Paul Simons http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2362948.html

Abstract As a part of the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project, we determined how land-use alteration influenced spider and harvestman diversity. We sampled spiders in six habitat types (desert parks, urban desert remnants, industrial, agricultural, xeric- and mesic-residential yards) and tested how habitat type and productivity affected spider diversity and abundance. As expected, agricultural fields and mesic yards were more productive than the other, xeric habitats. These more ...