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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Please
join us for
EcoLunch: </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Dr.
Mark Browne,
NCEAS</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b><br>
</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Water-tight
solutions
to engineering intertidal biodiversity in our cities</b></span><span
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</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Thursday
March 1 @
12:15</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">From Dr.
Browne:</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">ABSTRACT:
Worldwide
responses to urbanization, expanding populations and climatic
change mean
biodiverse habitats are replaced with expensive, but necessary
infrastructure.
Coastal cities support vast expanses of buildings and roads
along the coast or
on “reclaimed” land, leading to “armouring” of shorelines with
walls,
revetments and offshore structures to reduce erosion and
flooding. Currently
infrastructure is designed to meet engineering and financial
criteria, without
considering its value as habitat, despite artificial shorelines
causing loss of
intertidal species and altering ecological natural processes
that sustain
natural biodiversity. Most research on ameliorating these
impacts focus on
soft-sediment habitats and larger flora (e.g., restoring
marshes, encouraging
plants to grow on walls). In response to needs for greater
collaboration
between ecologists and engineers to create infrastructure to
better support
biodiversity, this talk will show how such collaborations lead
to small-scale
and inexpensive ecologically informed engineering which reduces
loss of species
of organisms from rocky shores replaced by walls. Adding
experimental novel
habitats to walls mimicking rock-pools (e.g., cavities,
attaching flowerpots)
increased numbers of species by 110% within months, in
particular mobile
animals most affected by replacing natural shores with walls.
These advances
provide new insights about melding engineering and ecological
knowledge to
sustain biodiversity in cities.</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">GENERAL
INFORMATION: <br>
<br>
EcoLunch is Thursday, at 12:15 pm (brown bag lunch) National
Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State
St., Suite 300,
Santa Barbara, CA
93101 Phone: (805) 892-2500 </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">A schedule
of upcoming
EcoLunch seminars is available on the web at:
</span><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a
href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecolunch"><span
style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecolunch</span></a><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 </span><span
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<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 </span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 <br>
<br>
third floor in the lounge area.<br>
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