[Info] April 2009 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for April 2009

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Carol Adair, Stefano Allesina, Jennifer Balch, 
Amber Budden, Marc Cadotte, Jonathan Davies, Carrie Kappel, Lesley 
Lancaster, Carlos Melián, Duncan Menge, Mary O’Connor, John Parker, 
Christine Petersen, Jai Ranganathan, Sadie Ryan, Jennifer Williams, 
Elizabeth Wolkovich

Sabbatical Fellows: Andre de Roos, Bill Fagan, Kerry Woods

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

March 30 – April 1, 2009
Title: Effects of trade policy on management of non-native forest pests 
and pathogens
Leader(s): James Turner
Email(s): james.turner at scionresearch.com
Participants: Juliann Aukema, Kerry Britton, Eckehard Brockerhoff, 
Joseph Cavey, Lynn Garrett, Robert Haack, Frank Lowenstein, Carissa 
Marassas, Amelia Nuding, Lars Olson, Matthew Royer, Erin Sills, Christa 
Speekmann, Mike Springborn, Christina Vieglais

March 30 – April 3, 2009
Title: Ecosystem analysis of pelagic organism declines in the Upper San 
Francisco Estuary
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Marissa Bauer, William Bennett, Larry Brown, Gonzalo 
Castillo, Steven D. Culberson, Fred Feyrer, Mike Johnson, Wim Kimmerer, 
Ralph Mac Nally, Mark N. Maunder, John M. Melack, Dennis Murphy, Ken 
Newman, Andrew Sih, David Stoms, Jim Thomson, Howard Townsend

April 6 – 11, 2009
Title: Parasites and food webs – the ultimate missing links
Leader(s): Kevin Lafferty, Andrew P. Dobson, Mercedes Pascual
Email(s): lafferty at lifesci.ucsb.edu, andy at eno.princeton.edu, 
pascual at umich.edu
Participants: Stefano Allesina, Jennifer Dunne, Ryan Hechinger, Armand 
Kuris, David J. Marcogliese, Neo Martinez, John McLaughlin, Jane 
Memmott, Robert Poulin, David Thieltges

April 7 – 9, 2009
Title: Distributed graduate seminar - the role of MPAs in 
ecosystem-based management: Examining the science and politics of an 
ocean conservation strategy
Leader(s): Robert Pavia, James Lindholm
Email(s): robert.pavia at noaa.gov, james_lindholm at csumb.edu
Participants: Leslie Abramson, Bradley W. Barr, Catherine Benson, Ellen 
Brody, Kimo Carvalho, Malia Chow, Chelsea Combest-Friedman, Jen Dupont, 
Katherine Emery, Dave Fluharty, Erik Franklin, Benjamin S. Halpern, 
Heather Havens, Patty Jarema, Jennifer Johnson, Stephen L. Katz, Brian 
Keller, Jeremy Kerr, Emily Klein, Ashley Knight, Judith D. Lemus, Jamie 
Mooney, Alesia Read, Edward Rutherford, Sarah J. Teck, Robert R. Warner

April 13 – 17, 2009
Title: When are Matrix Models Useful for Management? An Empirical Test 
across Plant Populations
Leader(s): Elizabeth Crone, Eric Menges, Martha Ellis
Email(s): elizabeth.crone at umontana.edu, emenges at archbold-station.org, 
martha.ellis at umontana.edu
Participants: Timothy Bell, Paulette Bierzychudek, Johan Ehrlen, Tom 
Kaye, Tiffany Knight, Peter Lesica, Bruce Maxwell, William Morris, 
Gerard Oostermeijer, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Amanda Stanley, Tamara 
Ticktin, Teresa Valverde, Jennifer Williams

April 16 – 18, 2009
Title: Investigating the impact of integrating social variables into 
water quality research: A review and meta-analysis (Luce Fellows hosted 
by NCEAS)
Leader(s): Alisa Hove
Email(s): hove at lifesci.ucsb.edu
Participants: Robyn Clark, Brian Clarke, David Cleveland, Scott D. 
Cooper, Gail Drus, Carola Flores, Skip Forest, John M. Melack, Marc Russell

April 23, 2009
Title: Kids Do Ecology Poster Day
Leader(s): Margaret Connors
Email(s): Connors at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Jennifer K. Balch, Gerick Bergsma, Amber E. Budden, Marc 
W. Cadotte, Carrie Kappel, Lea Mehrkens, Carlos J. Melian, Duncan Menge, 
John N. Parker, Robin Pelc, Christine Petersen, Jai Ranganathan, 
Jennifer L Williams

April 27 – 30, 2009
Title: Analysis and Conservation Prioritization of Landscape 
Connectivity in Nevada (Off-Site)
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Matthias Leu, Nathan H. Schumaker

April 27 – May 1, 2009
Title: Evaluation of declines of pelagic organisms in the upper San 
Francisco Estuary
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Larry Brown, James Cloern, Paul Hershberger, Kathy Hieb, 
John L. Largier, Ricardo Lopez, Jay Lund, Luis Francisco Madrinan, Wendy 
Meiring, Christine Petersen, Bill Peterson, Thomas Powell, Bruno Sanso, 
Ted Sommer, Jan Thompson, Monika Winder

April 28-30, 2009
Title: Monitoring responses of Pacific salmon to climate change
Leader(s): Randall Peterman
Email(s): 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

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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