[Info] October 2008 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for October 
2008

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Stefano Allesina, Jennifer Balch, Bernardo 
Broitman, Lauren Buckley, Amber Budden, Marc Cadotte, Jonathan Davies, 
Carrie Kappel, Francisco Madriñán, Carlos Melián, Duncan Menge, John 
Parker, Christine Petersen, Jai Ranganathan

Sabbatical Fellows: Bill Fagan, David Vieglais

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

September 29-October 3, 2008
Title: Effects of trade policy on management of non-native forest pests 
and pathogens
Leader: James A. Turner
Email: james.turner at scionresearch.com
Participants: Juliann Aukema, Greg Bratman, Kerry Britton, Eckehard 
Brockerhoff, Joseph F. Cavey, Bill Dickerson, Lynn Garrett, Robert A. 
Haack, Stephanie E. Hampton , Frank Lowenstein, Carissa Marassas, Amelia 
Nuding, Lars Olson, Matthew H. Royer, Margaret A. Shannon, Erin Sills, 
Christa L. Speekmann, Mike Springborn, Christina Vieglais

September 29-October 3, 2008
Title: Parasites and food webs – the ultimate missing links
Leader: Kevin Lafferty, Andrew P. Dobson, Mercedes Pascual
Email: lafferty at lifesci.ucsb.edu, andy at eno.princeton.edu, pascual at umich.edu
Participants: Stefano Allesina, Cherie Briggs, Giulio De Leo, Neo 
Martinez, Rich Williams

October 1-3, 2008
Title: Monitoring responses of Pacific salmon to climate change
Leader: Randall Peterman
Email: peterman at sfu.ca
Participants: Pete Adams, Doug Drake, Erica Fleishman, Harold J. Geiger, 
Kendra Holt, Chris Jordan, David P. Larsen, Steve Leider, Rich Lincoln, 
Anthony Olsen, Chuck Parken, Jeffrey Rodgers

October 6-10, 2008
Title: Ecosystem analysis of pelagic organism declines in the Upper San 
Francisco Estuary
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Marissa Bauer, William Bennett, Larry Brown, Gonzalo 
Castillo, Steven D. Culberson, Fred Feyrer, Wim Kimmerer, Ralph Mac 
Nally, Mark Maunder, John M. Melack, Dennis Murphy, Ken Newman, Andrew 
Sih, David Stoms, Jim Thomson, Howard Townsend

October 6-10, 2008
Title: Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions
Leader: Brian McGill, Rampal S. Etienne, Jessica L. Green
Email: mail at brianmcgill.org, r.s.etienne at rug.nl, jlgreen at uoregon.edu
Participants: David Alonso, Marti J. Anderson, Maria Dornelas, Brian J. 
Enquist, Fangliang He, Allen Hurlbert, Anne E. Magurran, Pablo A. 
Marquet, Brian A. Maurer, Helene Morlon, Han Olff, Annette Ostling, 
Candan U. Soykan, David Storch, Karl I. Ugland, Ethan White

October 11-13, 2008
Title: Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity
Leader: Nicholas J. Gotelli, Robert K. Colwell, Carsten Rahbek
Email: ngotelli at uvm.edu, robert.colwell at uconn.edu, crahbek at bi.ku.dk
Participants: Marti J. Anderson, Hector T. Arita, Anne Chao, Sean R. 
Connolly, Robert Dunn, Gary R. Graves, Jessica L. Green, Walter Jetz, 
Christy M. McCain, Thiago Fernando L. Rangel, Jorge Soberon Mainero, 
Campbell O. Webb

October 14-16, 2008
Title: Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Omar I. Aziz, Nancy Baron, Timothy Beechie, Kendra Holt, 
Luis Francisco Madrinan, Nathan Mantua, Eli Meir, Randall Peterman, 
Christine Petersen, Tom Reed, Mary Ruckelshaus, Daniel E. Schindler, 
Fengge Su, Robin Waples, Michael Webster, Huan Wu

October 17-20, 2008
Title: The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients
Leader: Howard V. Cornell, Susan Harrison, Christy M. McCain
Email: hvcornell at ucdavis.edu, spharrison at ucdavis.edu, 
christy.mccain at colorado.edu
Participants: David D. Ackerly, Andrew P. Allen, Brian Anacker, Ellen I. 
Damschen, T. Jonathan Davies, John A. Grytnes, Bradford A. Hawkins, 
Charles Mitter, Robert E. Ricklefs, Kaustuv Roy, Patrick R. Stephens, 
John Wiens

October 20-24, 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: Rich Caruana, Thomas G. Dietterich, Jane Elith, Reuben 
Keller, Andreas Krause, Dragos Margineantu

October 27-29, 2008
Title: Climate change and conservation (WCS)
Leader: Erica Fleishman,
Email: fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu

October 27-31, 2008
Title: Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data 
from long-term CO2 Enrichment Experiments
Leader: Richard J. Norby, Yiqi Luo, Ram Oren, I. Colin Prentice, Paul J. 
Hanson
Email: rjn at ornl.gov, yluo at ou.edu, ramoren at duke.edu, 
colin.prentice at bristol.ac.uk, hansonpj at ornl.gov
Participants: Michael Dietze, Thomas Hickler, Atul K. Jain, Julian 
Jenkins, Anthony W. King, Belinda Medlyn, William J. Parton, M. Lynn 
Tharp, Peter E. Thornton, Shusen Wang, Victoria Wittig, Sönke Zaehle


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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
FAX: 805-892-2510