[Info] September 2007 Events @ NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
September 2007

Current information also available on the internet at 
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu.

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Drew Allen, Stefano Allesina, Marissa Baskett, 
Bernardo Broitman, Marjorie Brooks, Amber Budden, Marc Cadotte, Elsa 
Cleland, Jonathan Davies, Allen Hurlbert, Carrie Kappel, Brad McRae, 
Carlos Melian, Thomas L. O'Halloran, Jennifer Smith, Patrick Stephens, 
Mark Urban

Sabbatical Fellows: Jim Brown, Richard Condit, Astrid Kodric-Brown, 
Peter Leavitt, Neo Martinez, Kimberly Schulz, David Vieglais, Jacob Weiner

Center Associates: John Alroy, Nancy Baron, Lynda Bunting, Kim Selkoe, 
Juliann Aukema
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, September 2007
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

September 5-6, 2007
Title: Science Advisory Board
Leader: Beverly Rathcke
Email: brathcke at umich.edu
Participants: Hector T. Arita, Jill Baron, James Bever, Robert F. Denno, 
Bryan Grenfell, Sally Hacker, Kyle Harms, Alan Hastings, Jennifer Hughes 
Martiny, Bruce Hungate, Stephen Jackson, Bruce E. Kendall, Phillip 
Levin, William F. Morris, Catherine A. Pfister, M. Rebecca Shaw, 
Jennifer Tank, Peter Thrall

September 10-12, 2007
Exotic species: A source of insight into ecology, evolution, and 
biogeography
Leaders: Dov F. Sax, Jay Stachowicz, Steven D. Gaines, John F. Bruno
Email: Dov_Sax at brown.edu, jjstachowicz at ucdavis.edu, 
gaines at lifesci.ucsb.edu, jbruno at unc.edu
Participants: James H. Brown, Michael N. Dawson, Alan Hastings, Matt 
Heard, Robert D. Holt, Sarah C. Lee, Jonathan B. Shurin, David Tilman

September 10-14, 2007
Title: Center for Tropical Forest Science: IT and Research Directions 
(hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: Richard Condit
Email: condit at nceas.ucsb.edu

September 13-17, 2007
Title: Parasites and food webs – the ultimate missing links
Leaders: Kevin Lafferty, Andrew P. Dobson, Mercedes Pascual
Email: lafferty at lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu, andy at eno.princeton.edu, 
pascual at umich.edu
Participants: Stefano Allesina, Matias Arim, Cherie Briggs, Jennifer 
Dunne, Katie Hampson, Ryan Hechinger, Pieter Johnson, Armand Kuris, 
David J. Marcogliese, Pablo A. Marquet, Neo Martinez, John Mclaughlin, 
Jane Memmott, Erin Mordecai, David Thieltges

September 17-21, 2007
Title: Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal 
habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
Leaders: Elise Granek, Evamaria W. Koch, Edward Barbier, David Stoms, 
Shankar Aswani-Canela
Email: graneke at pdx.edu, koch at hpl.umces.edu, ebarbier at uwyo.edu, 
stoms at bren.ucsb.edu, aswani at anth.ucsb.edu
Participants: David Bael, Lori A. Cramer, Mark Erdmann, Sally Hacker, 
Ben Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Christopher Kennedy, Nyawira Muthiga, 
Gerardo Perillo, Stephen Polasky, Jurgenne Primavera, Denise J. Reed, 
Brian Silliman, Eric Wolanski

September 17-21, 2007
Title: Exploring compensatory mitigation and markets as mechanisms for 
resolving fisheries bycatch: Biodiversity conservation conflicts
Leaders: Chris Wilcox, C. Josh Donlan
Email: chris.wilcox at csiro.au, cjd34 at cornell.edu
Participants: Stacey Buckelew, Larry B. Crowder, Richard Cudney-Bueno, 
Paul Dalzell, Kristen Fletcher, Heidi Gjertsen, Alistair Graham, 
Jennifer Lavers, Jamie Mandel, Edward Melvin, Sean Pascoe, Hoyt Peckham, 
Oliver R.W. Pergams, Rafe Sagarin, Manuel R Sequeiros, Dale Squires, 
Dana Wingfield


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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, Ca 93101-3351
Phone: 805-892-2502
FAX: 805-892-2510