[Ecolunch] New year, new Ecolunches

[Katie NCEAS]

Dear All,

the NCEAS Ecolunch seminars will resume, after a long holiday break, 
next Thursday! We will kick-off the new season with:

Jan 26th - Dr. Steve Katz, research coordinator for the Channel Islands 
National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA):

*Alternative data streams for addressing maritime conservation and 
management problems in the Channel Islands*
Steve will show how datasets collected for different purposes such as 
climatological models, aerial monitoring, ocean acoustics and 
macroeconomic parameters can be employed to explore issues relevant to 
local conservation and management such as vessel access to the Channel 
Islands or vessel traffic impacts throughout the Southern California bight.

In the weeks that follow, here is a preview of some of the other talks 
scheduled:

Feb 1st - Cristiane Elphes, NCEAS and Bren School (UCSB)
*High value and long life -- double jeopardy for tunas and billfishes*
For the first time, regional assessments of over 60 species of tunas and 
billfishes are combined to provide a worldwide picture of their 
conservation status. Cris will give insight from her work with the IUCN 
RedList expert group on the methodological challenges and the resulting 
findings.

February 9th - Dr Derek Gray, NCEAS
*Title TBA*
Derek is currently participating in a large international collaborative 
project exploring the Lake Baikal ecosystem. His talk will focus on 
freshwater plankton ecology

February 14th - Dr Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota
*Causes and consequences of changes in grassland plant diversity*
Forest will explore the consequences of anthropogenic pressures on 
biodiversity through applied questions in grassland ecosystems: 1) does 
nutrient enrichment promote exotic species invasions? 2) do grassland 
plant species have sufficient functional redundancy so as to withstand 
extinctions without losing ecosystem functioning?

February 23rd* - Dr Robert Condon, Dauphin Island Sea Lab
*Title TBA*
Rob will explain some of the findings, fresh from the press in 
BioScience, resulting from the NCEAS working group that gathered world 
experts to explain global trends in jellyfish blooms
(*note that this talk was exceptionally scheduled on a Tuesday)

NCEAS Ecolunches take place in the NCEAS lounge, at 12.15. They are 
always on a Thursday unless otherwise indicated.

We hope to see you there!

Josephine & Katie

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Catherine Longo
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Telephone: (805) 882-9218

Email: longo at nceas.ucsb.edu
Web: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/postdocs

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