[Info] January 2008 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for January 
2008

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, Lauren Buckley, Amber Budden, Marc Cadotte, Elsa 
Cleland, Jonathan Davies, Kevin Drury, Allen Hurlbert, Carrie Kappel, 
Brad McRae, Carlos Melian, Thomas L. O'Halloran, Jai Ranganathan, 
Jennifer Smith, Patrick Stephens, Mark Urban

Sabbatical Fellows: David Atkinson, 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, January 2008
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.


January 4-11, 2008
Title: Evolutionary and ecological sorting in space
Leader: Mark Urban, Mathew Leibold
Email: urban at nceas.ucsb.edu, mleibold at mail.utexas.edu
Participants: Priyanga Amarasekare, Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares, Luc 
DeMeester, Steven Declerck, Richard Gomulkiewicz, Matt Helmus, Michael 
Hochberg, Christopher Klausmeier, Nicolas Loeuille, Jon Norberg, Jelena 
Pantel, Christine Parent, Pedro Peres-Neto, Sharon Strauss, Mark 
Vellend, Michael Wade, Claire de Mazancourt

January 14-16, 2008
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: Caitlin Crain, Colin Ebert, Carrie Kappel, Caitlin 
Kontgis, Rebecca Martone, Fiorenza Micheli, Kimberly A. Selkoe, 
Christine Shearer, Sarah J. Teck

January 14-18, 2008
Title: Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological 
processes at multiple scales
Leader: Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares, J. Gordon Burleigh, Richard H. Ree
Email: cavender at umn.edu, jgb12 at duke.edu, rree at fieldmuseum.org
Participants: Marc W. Cadotte, Michael J. Donoghue, Steven W. Kembel, 
Michelle McMahon, Todd Oakley, George D. Weiblen

January 15-17, 2008
Title: NBII/GAP Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: T. Douglas Beard
Email: dbeard at usgs.gov
Participants: Craig R. Allen, Paul Angermeier, Lindsay Chadderton, Jason 
Dunham, Emmanuel A. Frimpong, Michael Hansen, Dana Infante, Wayne G. 
Landis, Hiram W. Li, Peter Moyle, Nancy Nate, Julian Olden, Andrea 
Ostroff, Craig Paukert, Don Pereira, Catherine Pringle, Scott Sowa, 
Lizhu Wang

January 21-25, 2008
Title: Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms 
in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Marjorie L. Brooks, Larry Brown, Jay Davis, James Drever, 
Dick Dugdale, Peggy Lehman, Sam Luoma, Carys Mitchelmore, Anke 
Mueller-Solger, Thomas L. O'Halloran, Daniel Schlenk, Nathaniel L. 
Scholz, Meg Sedlack, David Stoms, Swee The, Inge Werner, Peter van Veld

January 22-24, 2008
Title: Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other 
climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon 
dioxide stabilization policies
Leader: James Randerson, Pep Canadell, Robert B. Jackson
Email: jranders at uci.edu, jcanadel at leland.stanford.edu, jackson at duke.edu
Participants: Ray Anderson, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon Bonan, Ken 
Caldeira, Ruth DeFries, Robert Dickinson, Noah Diffenbaugh, Christopher 
B. Field, Annette Freibauer, Lara M. Kueppers, Beverly Law, Diane 
Pataki, Janet Peace, Annie Petsonk

January 23-24, 2008
Title: Public domain ADMB project
Leader: Mark P. Schildhauer
Email: schild at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Johnoel Ancheta, Stephanie E. Hampton, Jim Ianelli, Mark 
Maunder, Richard Methot, John R. Sibert

January 28-29, 2008
Title: MPA Monitoring Group Meetings (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: Satie Airame
Email: airame at msi.ucsb.edu

January 28 – February 1, 2008
Title: Machine learning for the environment
Leader: John M. Drake, Bill T. Langford
Email: jdrake at uga.edu, bill.langford at rmit.edu.au
Participants: Peter M. Buston, Rich Caruana, Jonathan Davies, Thomas G. 
Dietterich, Saso Dzeroski, Jane Elith, Cesare Furlanello, Reuben Keller, 
Dragos Margineantu, Robert Schapire, Matt White

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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