[Info] May 2008 Events @ NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for May 2008

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Stefano Allesina, Marissa Baskett, Bernardo 
Broitman, Lauren Buckley, Marc Cadotte, Elsa Cleland, Jonathan Davies, 
Kevin Drury, Allen Hurlbert, Carrie Kappel, Brad McRae, Carlos Melian, 
Thomas L. O'Halloran, Christine Petersen, Jai Ranganathan, Jennifer 
Smith, Patrick Stephens, Mark Urban

Sabbatical Fellows: David Atkinson, Rowan Lockwood, Kimberly Schulz, 
John Swaddle, David Vieglais, Jacob Weiner

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

May 5, 2008
Title: Kids Do Ecology Poster Day
Leader: Margaret Connors
Email: connors at nceas.ucsb.edu

May 6-8, 2008
Title: Science Advisory Team for the California Currents EBM Project 
(Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: Sarah E. Lester
Email: slester at ucsc.edu
Participants: Jack Barth, Francisco Chavez, Christopher Costello, Dave 
Fluharty, Steven D. Gaines, Ben Halpern, Phillip Levin, Amber Mace, 
Bonnie J. McCay, Karen McLeod, Julia K. Parrish, Carrie Pomeroy, Mary 
Ruckelshaus, Paul Siri, Heather Tallis

May 8-11, 2008
Title: Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities
Leader: John C. Moore, Quan Dong
Email: jcmoore at nrel.colostate.edu, quan_dong at nps.gov
Participants: Mark Bradford, David C. Coleman, Alan Covich, Peter C. de 
Ruiter , Beth Hagen, Alan Hastings, Kimberly A. Melville-Smith, John C. 
Moore, Neil Rooney, Amy Rosemond, John Sabo, Michael J. Vanni, Diana H. 
Wall, Matthew Wallenstein, Colleen T. Webb, Elizabeth Wolkovich

May 12-15, 2008
Title: Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests
Leader: Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend
Email: cory.cleveland at umontana.edu, alan.townsend at colorado.edu
Participants: Silvia Alvarez-Clare, Mercedes Bustamante, George Chuyong, 
Pauline Grierson, Kyle Harms, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Luiz Martinelli, 
William J. Parton, Stephen Porder, Sasha Reed, Carlos A. Sierra, Whendee 
L. Silver, Edmund Tanner, Peter Vitousek, Will Wieder

May 18-22, 2008
Title: Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological 
processes at multiple scales
Leader: Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares, David D. Ackerly, J. Gordon 
Burleigh, Michelle Mack, Richard H. Ree, Peter Reich
Email: cavender at umn.edu, dackerly at berkeley.edu, jgb12 at duke.edu, 
mcmack at botany.ufl.edu, rree at fieldmuseum.org, preich at umn.edu
Participants: Cecile M. Ane, Marc W. Cadotte, Jonathan Davies, Nicholas 
J. Deacon, Michael J. Donoghue, Erika J. Edwards, Paul Fine, Matthew R. 
Helmus, Robert D. Holt, Steven W. Kembel, Clarence L. Lehman, Jeremy W. 
Lichstein

May 21-23, 2008
Title: Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
Leader: Andrew P. Allen, Jessica L. Green, Stephen P. Hubbell, Pablo A. 
Marquet
Email: aallen at bio.mq.edu.au, jlgreen at uoregon.edu, shubbell at eeb.ucla.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, 
James O'Dwyer, Jordan Okie, Annette Ostling, Mark Ritchie, Van M. 
Savage, Igor Volkov, Geoffrey W. West, Tommaso Zillio

May 23-24, 2008
Title: Gradients in biodiversity and speciation
Leader: Gary Mittelbach, Howard V. Cornell, Douglas W. Schemske
Email: mittelbach at kbs.msu.edu, hvcornell at ucdavis.edu, schem at msu.edu
Participants: Kaustuv Roy, Jay Sobel

May 27–June 4, 2008
Title: A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related 
biases in ecology
Leader: Christopher J. Lortie, Lonnie Aarssen, Julia Koricheva, Tom Tregenza
Email: christopher at onepoint.ca, aarssenl at biology.queensu.ca, 
julia.koricheva at rhul.ac.uk, t.tregenza at exeter.ac.uk
Participants: Robyn Borsuk, Amber E. Budden, Rich Francis, Olyana Grod, 
Roosa Leimu

May 28-30, 2008
Title: Cadillac Desert
Leader: John Sabo
Email: john.l.sabo at asu.edu
Participants: Laura Bowling, William Graf, Jan Hopmans, Gerrit Schoups, 
Robert H. Webb, Ellen Wohl


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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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Santa Barbara, Ca 93101-3351
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