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| About |
| Contact | kmauz1 [at] gmail.com |
| Education | |
| 2006 |
Ph.D....Arid Land Resource Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. |
| 1997 |
M.A....Archaeology, University of Washington, Seattle. |
| 1993 | B.A......Geology, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs. |
| Affiliation | |
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(2006-2014) University of Arizona Herbarium (ARIZ), Dept. of Plant Sciences. (Visiting, 2008) University of Vermont Pringle Herbarium (VT), Dept. of Plant Biology. |
| Recognition | |
| 2005 | Meritorious performance for Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona Foundation. |
| 2003 | Outstanding University Achievements (September), Arizona Student Unions. |
| 1993 | Neal J. Harr Memorial Outstanding Student Award, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. |
| 1993 | Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Colorado. |
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| Investigations |
| Establishing Provenience for 19th-Century Tree Specimens | ||
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Summary: |
From 1881 to 1905, Charles Sprague Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, worked in collaboration with Morris Ketchum Jesup, President of the American Museum of Natural History, to assemble for exhibit a set of logs representing every known tree species from the United States. While Jesup envisioned a beautiful display, Sargent hoped for a useful collection that would embody his own earlier report on the census of American forests. Known as the Jesup Collection of North American Woods, these more than 500 logs were exhibited at the Museum in the early twentieth century, but they were never employed in the study of the trees the way Sargent had envisioned. Although those logs reside in storage today, more than a century later, they are still possessed of scientific potential. This work is aimed at reconstructing the geographic origins of the logs from archival resources, providing an essential foundation for their use in future scientific studies. |
| Publications: | Mauz, K. 2021. Such a fine assemblage: The Jesup Collection of North American Woods. Arnoldia 78(5-6): 24-49. pdf | |
| Sponsorship: |
2019 Sargent Award for Visiting Scholars, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University ^ |
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| The Botany of Cyrus Pringle | ||
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Summary: | Cyrus Pringle's career as a professional botanical collector began with expeditions to the western United States in the early 1880s. In the course of his work, he brought numerous new species to science and contributed to broader knowledge of plant species' geography. Several of his specimens are the only records for species in locations in which they no longer occur, and as such also serve a conservation purpose in our own era. |
| Publications: |
Mauz, K. 2017. Notes on vascular plant type collections of Cyrus G. Pringle in western United States and Mexico, 1881-1884. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 11: 117-120. pdf Mauz, K. 2011. Cyrus Pringle's vascular plant types from western United States and Mexico, 1881-1884. Harvard Papers in Botany 16: 71-141. abstract Mauz, K. 2009 [June 2010]. The type of Carex scirpoidea var. gigas (Cyperaceae). Madroño 56: 279-282. pdf Mauz, K. 2004. The botanical activities of Cyrus Pringle in Arizona, 1881-1884, and a digital archive of his collections. Glyphs, Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society 55(6): 5-6. pdf |
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| Abstracts: |
Flora of the Pacific Slope: Botanical activities of Cyrus G. Pringle in the western states, 1881-1884 Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird UT (2004) |
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| Outreach: |
Botanical Collections of Cyrus Pringle in Arizona (1881-1884) and Contributions toward an Historic Riparian Flora of Tucson C.G. Pringle and some wild rock gardens of the Pacific Slope |
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| Related links: | The Arizona Botanical Catalogue of Cyrus G. Pringle, 1881-1884 | |
| Sponsorship: |
Visiting scholarship, Field Museum of Natural History W. E. Buker Travel Award, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Deacon Bell Memorial Scholarship, Orchid Society of Arizona |
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Mauz, K. 2018. C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, and the "Flora of the Pacific Slope" (1881-1884). Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 120, Heritage Series 3. New York: The New York Botanical Garden Press.| Historic Riparian Vegetation | ||
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Summary: | The historic (pre-1920) riparian flora of the Tucson Basin comprised species typical of floodplain, channel, and cienega settings. In many cases, herbarium specimens are the only records of these plant species from the flora area prior to the disappearance of the rivers, and the collected flora may be the best record available of plant species in a lowland riparian setting in the Sonoran Desert for this time frame. |
| Publications: |
Mauz, K. 2008. Edward Palmer's whereabouts known, August-September 1867. Brittonia 60: 93-98. abstract Mauz, K. 2007. Two historic plant collection localities in Arizona: notes concerning mistaken geography. Phytologia 89: 178-190. pdf Mauz, K. 2002. Plants of the Santa Cruz Valley at Tucson. Desert Plants 18(1): 1-36. pdf |
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| Abstracts: |
Tucson's lost wetland plant species: where are they now? Historic riparian flora of the Tucson Basin, Arizona Recalling an historic riparian flora for the Tucson Basin Herbarium collections and historic riparian communities in the Tucson Basin |
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| Outreach: |
State of floristic knowledge in the Tucson Basin Plant diversity of Tucson's historical riparian landscape Historic Botany and Plant Diversity of Tucson's (former) Rivers, 1855-1920 Obligate wetland plant species in the historic Tucson Basin flora 'Vegetable Productions' and Visions of Tucson's Riparian Heritage |
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| Related links: |
Plants of the West Branch of the Santa Cruz, Tucson, Arizona Snapdragon an exciting find - Climbing vine spotted on walk along Santa Cruz Conservation at West Branch of the Santa Cruz - Arizona Land & Water Trust |
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| Sponsorship: |
Visiting scholarship, Field Museum of Natural History |
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Mauz, K. 2011. An agreeable landscape: Historical botany and plant biodiversity of a Sonoran Desert bottomland, 1855-1920. Sida Botanical Miscellany 35. Fort Worth: Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press.| Sonoran Desert Plants & Landscapes | ||
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Summary: | Botanical field work in small mountain ranges of the northwestern Sonoran Desert, including the Sawtooth Mountains and the Table Top Mountains, has contributed to regional floristic inventories and natural-area conservation. Other work has contributed to the plant geographic and taxonomic literature for species of the desert region. |
| Publications: |
Mauz, K. & J.R. Reeder. 2009. Marsilea mollis (Marsileaceae) sporocarps and associated insect parasitism in southern Arizona. Western North American Naturalist 69: 382-387. abstract Reeder, J.R. & K. Mauz. 2009. Panicum coloratum new for Arizona, and Echinochloa holciformis new for the United States. Phytologia 91: 347-352. pdf Mauz, K. 2007. A note on the type locality of Oenothera arizonica (Onagraceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1(1): 483-485. pdf Mauz, K. 2007. The outstanding stamens of Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov. Desert Plants 23(1): 10-11. pdf Felger, R.S. & B. Broyles, eds. 2007. Dry Borders: Great natural reserves of the Sonoran Desert. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. abstract Mauz, K. 1999. Flora of the Sawtooth Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona. Desert Plants 15(2): 1-28. pdf |
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| Related links: |
Biological Resources of the Proposed Sonoran Desert National Monument (2000) Flora of the Sawtooth Mountains (1998-1999) |
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| Spatial Variability in Saguaro Growth | ||
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Summary: |
Cactus in four populations of saguaros across an elevation gradient in the North Maricopa Mountains were measured
for height in 1987 (marked by hailstone damage to the stems) and 2003. Initial height was a strong predictor of current height,
but a poor predictor of change in height. Change in height exhibited a positive, qualitative relationship with elevation. |
| Publications: | Mauz, K. 2004. Spatial variability in saguaro growth from a serendipitous timeline in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 36(2): 95-102. abstract | |
| Sponsorship: | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid of Research | |
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| Studies in Neotropical Deciduous Forest | ||
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Summary: | Tropical deciduous forests of the Pacific Slope of Mexico occur in a belt of a globally threatened forest type, in which land-cover conversion associated with agricultural and pastoral land use has been increasing for decades. Satellite remote sensing technology has several applications to analyses of habitat loss and forest dynamics. This project has explored forest vegetative phenology, in particular, as it varies spatially and with rainfall. |
| Publications: | Mauz, K. 2004. ground truth, an essay about land and directions. you are here - the journal of creative geography 6(summer): 10-15. pdf | |
| Abstracts: |
Phenology, forest cover, and big pixels in a small watershed Vegetative phenology in a West Mexican deciduous forest |
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| Sponsorship: |
NASA Earth System Science Graduate Research Fellowship NASA/UA Spacegrant Fellowship for Outreach NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award |
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| Urban Land Cover Change in the Tucson Basin, Arizona | ||
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Summary: | Residential and resort development has increased on the bajadas and in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, disturbing and replacing desertscrub and xeroriparian vegetation. Using satellite imagery to map urban land cover in 1984 and 1998, I found that the area of urban land cover in the proximity of washes across the study area increased significantly between the two years. For washes explicitly recognized by planning ordinances, proportion of urban land cover did not increase significantly in the proximity of the washes. |
| Abstracts: |
Quantifying land cover change on the Catalina Piedmont, Tucson, Arizona International Association of Landscape Ecology Annual Symposium, Tempe AZ (2001) |
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| Activities |
| Collecting | |
| 2007 |
Seed conservation and rare plant monitoring, Colorado State Office/Bureau of Land Management and Conservation Science Department/Chicago Botanic Garden. *photos from the collecting season: field areas | seed species |
| Teaching | ||
| 2006 | Teaching associate. |
NATS 101: Earth's Environments - Introduction to Global Change Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona. |
| 2004 | Teaching associate. |
GEOS 220: Environmental History of the Southwest Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona. |
| 1999-2001 | Teaching associate. |
RNR 202: Native Plant Taxonomy School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona. |
| 2000 | Teaching associate. |
NATS 101: Earth's Environments - Introduction to Physical Geography Department of Geography & Regional Development, University of Arizona. |
| 1998-1999 | Student interpreter. |
School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, & Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson. |
| Contributions |
| 2019 |
Charlotte Goodding Reeder and her Husband, John |
| 2007 |
Echinochloa notes |
| 2003 |
Shrinking Lake Chapala - NASA Earth Observatory news item (14 Sep) |