[Info] February 2008 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
February 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, Rowan Lockwood, Kimberly Schulz, 
John Swaddle, David Tilman, David Vieglais, Jacob Weiner

Center Associates: John Alroy, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Kim Selkoe
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, February 2008
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.


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

February 4-8, 2008
Title: Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal 
habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
Leader: 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, David Bael, Sally Hacker, Ben Halpern, Carrie 
Kappel, Christopher Kennedy, Nyawira Muthiga, Gerardo Perillo, Stephen 
Polasky, Jurgenne Primavera, Denise J. Reed, Brian Silliman, Eric Wolanski

February 5-8, 2008
Title: Distributed graduate seminar, economic impacts of non-native 
forest pests and pathogens in North America
Leader: Juliann Aukema
Email: aukema at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Ilana Abrahmson, Jo Albers, Mark Ambrose, Simone Bauch, 
Kevin Bigsby, Brad Collins, William Connell, Tracy Davern, Seth Davis, 
Melissa Fierke, Erica Fleishman, Rich Hofstetter, Tetsuya Horie, 
Catherine Landis, Mingyang Li, Shefali Mehta, Lauren Mork, Cara Nelson, 
Alina Niklison, Mike O'Brien, Thomas L. O'Halloran, Ebba Peterson, Jess 
Riddle, David Shaw, Erin Sills, David Smith, Thomas Stohlgren, Matthew 
Thompson, Rob Venette, Kristen Waring, Nicole Werner

February 9-13, 2008
Title: Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future
Leader: Julia Koricheva, Jessica Gurevitch
Email: julia.koricheva at rhul.ac.uk, jgurvtch at life.bio.sunysb.edu
Participants: Isabelle Cote, Peter Curtis, Michael Jennions, Marc 
Lajeunesse, Joseph Lau, Christopher J. Lortie, Kerrie Mengersen, Michael 
S. Rosenberg, Hannah Rothstein, Christopher Schmid, Gavin Stewart

February 12-28, 2008
Title: Efficient wildlife disease control: From social network 
self-organization to optimal vaccination
Leader: Peter D. Walsh
Email: walsh at eva.mpg.de
Participants: Shweta Bansal, Julio Benavides, Magdalena Bermejo, 
Christopher Boesch, Denis Boyer, Damien Caillaud, Sarah Cleaveland, 
Margaret C. Crofoot, Wayne Getz, Katie Hampson, Daniel T. Haydon, 
Karline Janmaat, Fabian Leendertz, Lauren Meyers, Sadie J. Ryan, Liliana 
Salvador, Adrian Vos, Dennis Wylie

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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