[Info] January 2009 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for January 
2009

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Stefano Allesina, Jennifer Balch, Amber Budden, 
Marc Cadotte, Jonathan Davies, Carrie Kappel, Francisco Madriñán, Carlos 
Melián, Duncan Menge, Mary O’Connor, John Parker, Christine Petersen, 
Jai Ranganathan, Jennifer Williams

Sabbatical Fellows: Bill Fagan, Kerry Woods

Center Associates: John Alroy, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Ben Halpern, 
Kim Selkoe
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, January 2009:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly

January 4-7, 2009
Title: Assisted Migration (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader(s): Dov Sax
Email(s): Dov_Sax at brown.edu
Participants: Dan Ashe, Jean Brennan, James Brown, Alex Camacho, Gerardo 
Ceballos, Holly Doremus, Julie Etterson, Dwight Fielder, Patrick 
Gonzalez, Lee Hannah, Jessica Hellmann, Dale Jamieson, Debra Javeline, 
Jason McLachlan, Ben Minteer, Maile Neel,
Jay Odenbaugh, Stephen Polasky, Terry Root, Hugh Safford, Steve 
Scheider, Mark Schwartz, Andrew Thompson, Jack Williams, Sandi Zellmar

January 7, 2009
Title: David H. Smith Conservation Fellows Information Meeting (Hosted 
by NCEAS)
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu

January 12-16, 2009
Title: Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology
Leader(s): Aaron King, Pej Rohani
Email(s): kingaa at umich.edu, rohani at uga.edu
Participants: Carles Breto, Stephen Ellner, Matthew Ferrari, Giles 
Hooker, Edward Ionides, Valerie Isham, Katia Koelle, Michael Lavine, Ken 
Newman, Daniel Reuman, Helen Wearing

January 13-15, 2009
Title: INTEROP: Creation of an international virtual data center for the 
biodiversity, ecological and environmental sciences
Leader(s): Matthew Jones, William Michener, Kathleen Smith
Email(s): jones at nceas.ucsb.edu, wmichener at lternet.edu, kksmith at duke.edu
Participants: Suzanne Lorraine Allard, Bob Cook, Duane Costa, Mike 
Frame, Stephanie Hampton, Hilmar Lapp, Mark Servilla, David Vieglais, 
Todd Vision, Bruce Wilson

January 17-21, 2009
Title: Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological 
processes at multiple scales
Leader(s): Jeannine Cavender-Bares, David Ackerly, J. Gordon Burleigh, 
Michelle Mack, Richard Ree, Peter Reich
Email(s): 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: Jeremy Beaulieu, Marc Cadotte, Cathy Collins, T. Jonathan 
Davies, Kendi Davies, Nicholas Deacon, Matthew Helmus, Robert Holt, Dawn 
Kaufman, Steven Kembel

January 20-23, 2009
Title: Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests
Leader(s): Cory Cleveland, Alan Townsend
Email(s): cory.cleveland at umontana.edu, alan.townsend at colorado.edu
Participants: Silvia Alvarez-Clare, Mercedes Bustamante, George Chuyong, 
Pauline Grierson, Kyle Harms, Benjamin Houlton, Alison Marklein, William 
Parton, Stephen Porder, Sasha Reed, Carlos Sierra, Whendee Silver, 
Edmund Tanner,
Philip Taylor, Will Wieder

January 22-24, 2009
Title: UCSB Luce Fellows ecological analysis and synthesis
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu

January 27-28, 2009
Title: Open access publishing
Leader(s): O. Reichman
Email(s): ojreichman at gmail.com
Participants: Ted Bergstrom, Raym Crow, Donald King, Mark McCabe, Mark 
Patterson, Greg Tananbaum, John Wallinsky

January 27-29, 2009
Title: Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other 
climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon 
dioxide stabilization policies
Leader(s): James Randerson, Josep Canadell, Robert Jackson
Email(s): jranders at uci.edu, pep.canadell at csiro.au, jackson at duke.edu
Participants: Ray Anderson, Roni Avissar, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon 
Bonan, Ken Caldeira, Robert Dickinson, Noah Diffenbaugh, Christopher 
Field, Kevin Gurney, Forrest Hoffman, Bruce Hungate, Lara Kueppers, 
Beverly Law,
James Randerson


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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