[Info] October 2007 Events @ NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for October 
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, Jai Ranganathan, Jennifer Smith, 
Patrick Stephens, Mark Urban

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

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

October 2-4, 2007
Title: Marine Reserves Monitoring Group
Leader:  Satie Airame
Email:  airame at msi.ucsb.edu
Participants: Debbie Aseltine Neilson, Mark H. Carr, Jennifer Caselle, 
Guy Cochrane, John Engle, Steven D. Gaines, Scott Hamilton, Konstantin 
Karpov, David Kushner, Rikk Kvitek, Hunter S. Lenihan, James Lindholm, 
Danielle Lipski, Chris Lowe, Dan Malone, William McClintock, Mark Page, 
Christy Pattengill Semmens, Dan Richards, Laura Rogers Bennett, Anne 
Salomon, Donna Schroeder, Nick Shears, Craig Shuman, Allan 
Stewart-Oaten, John Ugoretz, Ben Waltenberger, Robert R. Warner

October 5-7, 2007
Title:  Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity
Leaders:  Nicholas J. Gotelli, Robert K. Colwell, Carsten Rahbek
Email:  ngotelli at uvm.edu, robert.colwell at uconn.edu, crahbek at bi.ku.dk
Participants:  Hector T. Arita, Anne Chao, Sean R. Connolly, David 
Currie, Robert Dunn, Jessica L. Green, John A. Grytnes, Yi-Huei Jiang, 
Kate Lyons, Anne E. Magurran, Thiago Fernando L. Rangel, Tom S. Romdal, 
Jorge Soberon Mainero, Campbell O. Webb

October 8-10, 2007
Title:  Ecological network structure and dynamics mini-course
Leader: Neo Martinez
Email:  martinez at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants:  Lindsey Albertson, Carol A. Blanchette, Bernardo R. 
Broitman, Marjorie L. Brooks, Ben Halpern, Stephanie E. Hampton, Allen 
Hurlbert, Kevin Lafferty, Joshua S. Madin, Erin Mordecai, Andrew 
Rassweiler, Anne Salomon, Kimberly L. Schulz, Mark Urban, Louie Yang

October 11-12, 2007
Title: Valuation of marine ecosystem services
Leader:  Erica Fleishman
Email:  fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants:  John Bergstrom, Drew Bohan, Roelof M. Boumans, Kevin 
Boyle, Steve Colt, Christopher Costello, Shannon Davis, Hans Radtke, 
Nejem Raheem, Murray Rudd, Paula Sweeden, John Talberth, Chuck Willer

October 15-19, 2007
Title:  Ecosystem Analysis of Pelagic Organism Declines in the Upper San 
Francisco Estuary
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email:  fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants:  William Bennett, Larry Brown, Gonzalo Castillo, Fred 
Feyrer, Wim Kimmerer, Ralph Mac Nally, John M. Melack, Ken Newman, 
Thomas L. O'Halloran, Andrew Sih, David Stoms, Jim Thomson, Howard Townsend

October 15-19, 2007
Title: Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions
Leaders:  Brian McGill, Jessica L. Green
Email:  mail at brianmcgill.org, jgreen at ucmerced.edu
Participants:  David Alonso, Marti J. Anderson, Habtamu Kassa Benecha, 
Maria Dornelas, Brian J. Enquist, Rampal S. Etienne, John S. Gray, 
Fangliang He, Allen Hurlbert, Anne E. Magurran, Pablo A. Marquet, Brian 
A. Maurer, Helene Morlon, Han Olff, Annette Ostling, Salvador Pueyo, 
Candan U. Soykan, Mutsunori Tokeshi, Karl I. Ugland, Ethan White

October 22-24, 2007
Title: Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
Leaders:  Andrew P. Allen, Jessica L. Green, Stephen P. Hubbell, Pablo 
A. Marquet
Email:  drewa at nceas.ucsb.edu, jgreen at ucmerced.edu, 
shubbell at plantbio.uga.edu, pmarquet at bio.puc.cl
Participants:  Jayanth Banavar, James H. Brown, Jennifer Dunne, Brian J. 
Enquist, James F. Gillooly, Patty Gowaty, John Harte, Amos Maritan, 
Claudia Neuhauser, Jordan Oakie, Annette Ostling, Mark Ritchie, Van M. 
Savage, Igor Volkov, Geoffrey W. West

October 22-24, 2007
Title:  Ranking and mapping human threats and impacts to marine 
ecosystems in the california current
Leader:  Ben Halpern
Email:  halpern at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants:  Ebert Colin, Caitlin Crain, Carrie Kappel, Caitlin 
Kontgis, Rebecca Martone, Fiorenza Micheli, Kimberly A. Selkoe, 
Christine Shearer, Sarah J. Teck

October 25-30, 2007
Title: Global trajectories of seagrasses: Establishing a quantitative 
basis for seagrass conservation and restoration
Leaders:  Robert J. Orth, William C. Dennison
Email:  jjorth at vims.edu, dennison at umces.edu
Participants:  Tim J. Carruthers, Carlos M. Duarte, James W. Fourqurean, 
Kenneth L. Heck, Anne R. Hughes, Gary A. Kendrick, W. Judson Kenworthy, 
Suzanne Olyarnik, Frederick T. Short, Michelle Waycott, Susan Williams

October 29-31, 2007
Title:  Marine Reserves Monitoring Group
Leaders:  Satie Airame
Email:   airame at msi.ucsb.edu
 


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Ginger Gillquist
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