[Ecolunch] NCEAS Ecolunch seminars: fall schedule

[Jai Ranganathan]

After the summer break, Ecolunch seminars at the Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) are starting again, next week.  We have an
exciting calendar of seminars planned and we hope that you will be able to
attend.  Ecolunches are Thursdays, at 12:15 pm (brown bag lunch), NCEAS,
735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA.  Directions to NCEAS
follow at the end of this message.

The schedule of upcoming Ecolunch seminars is always available on the web
at: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecolunch

August 28
Allocation, plasticity and allometry in plants
Jacob Weiner
NCEAS
Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen

September 4
Impacts of estrogenic activity in fish from the Southern California Bight
Daniel Schlenk
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of California, Riverside

September 11
Fertilization, consumers, and competition: community context determines
grassland viral prevalence
Elizabeth Borer
Department of Zoology
Oregon State University

September 18
Investigating responses of riverine habitats and Pacific salmon to climate
change
Francisco Madrinan
NCEAS

September 25
Feasibility of marine protected area networks and marine ecosystem based
management in the Philippines
Patrick Christie
School of Marine Affairs and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington

October 2
Title to be announced
Chris Costello
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California, Santa Barbara

October 9
Diversity and time
Anne Magurran
School of Biology
University of St. Andrews

October 16
Can unsaturation be reconciled with strong interspecific competition in
local species assemblages?
Howard Cornell
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis

October 23
The impacts of invasive species in California grasslands: potential
mechanisms of persistence
Sophie Parker
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara

October 30
Forest responses to rising atmospheric CO2
Rich Norby
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

November 6
Seasonal constraints on rockfish larval dispersal along the central
California coast
Christine Peterson
NCEAS

November 13
Long-term warming in the world's largest lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia
Stephanie Hampton
NCEAS

November 20
Steps toward implementation of marine ecosystem-based management
Larry Crowder
Nicholas School of Environmental and Earth Sciences
Duke University

November 27
No talk in observance of Thanksgiving

December 4
Amazon transitional forests: sensitive or resistant to frontier fire?
Jennifer Balch
NCEAS

December 11
Why we don't know much about late-successional forests: working with
long-term studies in slow systems controlled by rare events
Kerry Woods
NCEAS
Natural Sciences, Bennington College

DIRECTIONS
DIRECTIONS FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the 11:40 a.m.
bus (# 24x) from campus. From the transit center, walk one block east to
State Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at 735 State
Street. To return to campus, you can take the 1:30 p.m. bus (#24x) from
the transit station and be back on campus by 1:49 p.m. Or you can take the
2:20 p.m. bus and arrive on campus at 2:39.

BY CAR: take Highway 101 South. Once in Santa Barbara, exit on Carrillo
Street. Turn left onto Carrillo. Drive 5 blocks and turn right on State
Street. NCEAS is located on the right side at 735 State St., Suite 300. To
Park: Drive past NCEAS on State Street and make your first right on Ortega
Street. Drive 1 block and turn right on Chapala Street. Park in the
underground Mall parking lot on your right. (First 75 minutes free). Once
you are at the Balboa Building: We are on the third floor in the lounge
area.

-- 
Jai Ranganathan
Postdoctoral fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
USA
Telephone: (805) 892-2517
Fax: (805) 892-2510