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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dear All,</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Please
join us for EcoLunch: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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Dr. Ben Halpern, NCEAS & MSI (UCSB)</big><br>
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An Ocean Health Index: quantifying and mapping the health
of global marine ecosystems</span></b></small></small><br>
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Dr. Halpern will present results from the first global
application of the Ocean Health Index, a quantitative approach
to synthesizing current knowledge of the health of the oceans</big></font><big>
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Thursday March 8 @ 12:15</span></small></small><span
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</small> </span><small><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">GENERAL
INFORMATION: <br>
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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"><br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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></span><span
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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"><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"><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
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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 style="font-size: 11.0pt"><br>
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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 style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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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.</span></small></font>
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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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