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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dear All,</span><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Please join us for
EcoLunch: </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</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
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b><br>
</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
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<br>
</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:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <br>
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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
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Helvetica"><br>
<br>
</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 style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
<br>
</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 style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
<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
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
<br>
</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 style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
<br>
</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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<br>
</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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Dr Catherine Longo
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Telephone: (805) 882-9218
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:longo@nceas.ucsb.edu">longo@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/postdocs">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/postdocs</a> </pre>
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