[Info] December 2007 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
December 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, Lauren Buckley, 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, 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, December 2007
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.


December 3-7, 2007
Title: Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology
Leader:  Aaron A. King, Pej Rohani
Email:   kingaa at umich.edu,  rohani at uga.edu
Participants: Carles Breto, Stephen P. Ellner, Matthew Ferrari, Gavin 
Gibson, Giles Hooker, Edward Ionides, Valerie Isham, Bruce E. Kendall, 
Katia Koelle, Michael Lavine, Ken Newman, Daniel Reuman, Helen Wearing

December 3-7, 2007
Title:  Making decisions on complex environmental problems
Leaders:  Helen Regan, Sahotra Sarkar
Email:  hregan at sciences.sdsu.edu,  sarkar at mail.utexas.edu
Participants:  Mark Burgman, Mark Colyvan, M. Drechsler, James Dyer, 
Trevon Fuller, James Justus, Mark Lubell, Lynn A. Maguire, Christopher 
R. Margules, Tara Martin, Alexander Moffett, Kristina Rothley, Brian Skyrms

December 10-14, 2007
Title: Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems (Extended)
Leader: Jonathan B. Shurin, Helmut Hillebrand, Daniel S. Gruner
Email: shurin at zoology.ubc.ca, helmut.hillebrand at uni-koeln.de, 
dsgruner at umd.edu
Participants:  Ben Bolker, Elizabeth T. Borer, Matthew E. Bracken, James 
H. Brown, Bradley J. Cardinale, Just Cebrian, Elsa Cleland, Kathryn L. 
Cottingham, James J. Elser, W. Stanley Harpole, Jackie Ngai, Stuart 
Sandin, Eric Seabloom, Jennifer E. Smith, Melinda D. Smith, Elizabeth 
Wolkovich, Claire de Mazancourt
 

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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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Santa Barbara, Ca 93101-3351
Phone: 805-892-2502
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