[Info] May 2009 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for May 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

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

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

May 1-4, 2009
Title: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
Leader(s): Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn
Email(s): bworm at dal.ca, rayh at u.washington.edu
Participants: Julia Baum, Trevor Branch, Felicia Coleman, Jeremy Collie, 
Christopher Costello, Michael Fogarty, Beth Fulton, Jeffrey Hutchings, 
Simon Jennings, Olaf Jensen, Heike Lotze, Pamela Mace, Tim McClanahan, 
Coilin Minto,
Stephen Palumbi, Ana Parma, Daniel Ricard, Andrew Rosenberg, Reg Watson, 
Dirk Zeller

May 2-4, 2009
Title: Distributed Graduate Seminar: Finding common ground in marine 
conservation and management
Leader(s): Ray Hilborn, Boris Worm
Email(s): rayh at u.washington.edu, bworm at dal.ca
Participants: Ricardo Amoroso, Sean Anderson, Trevor Branch, Jeremy 
Collie, Kiersten Curti, Marilu Estalles, Gavin Fay, Jason Krumholz, 
Coilin Minto, Ana Parma, Gabriela Penaloza, Daniel Ricard, Suresh Sethi, 
Katyana Vert-Pre,
William Whitmore

May 4-7, 2009
Title: Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data 
from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
Leader(s): Richard Norby, Yiqi Luo, Ram Oren, I. Colin Prentice, Paul Hanson
Email(s): rjn at ornl.gov, yluo at ou.edu, ramoren at duke.edu, 
colin.prentice at bristol.ac.uk, hansonpj at ornl.gov
Participants: Steve Del Grosso, Michael Dietze, Thomas Hickler, Julian 
Jenkins, David Kicklighter, Anthony King, Belinda Medlyn, William 
Parton, M. Lynn Tharp, Peter Thornton, Shusen Wang, Ensheng Weng, 
Victoria Wittig, Sonke Zaehle

May 5-7, 2009
Title: Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Omar Aziz, Liz Banse, Nancy Baron, Timothy Beechie, 
Correigh Greene, Kendra Holt, John Kimball, Joshua Lawler, Steven 
Lindley, Luis Francisco Madrinan, Nathan Mantua, Liz Neeley, Randall 
Peterman, Christine Petersen, Tom Reed, Jim Regetz, Mary Ruckelshaus, 
Mark Schildhauer, Daniel Schindler, Jack Stanford, David Stoms, Fengge 
Su, Alisa Wade, Shaun Walbridge, Robin Waples, Michael Webster, Huan Wu

May 9-13, 2009
Title: Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing 
predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)
Leader(s): Daniel Doak, James Estes, J. Timothy Wootton, Terrie Williams
Email(s): ddoak at uwyo.edu, jestes at ucsc.edu, twootton at uchicago.edu, 
williams at biology.ucsc.edu
Participants: Ian Carroll, Mark Emmerson, Benjamin Halpern, Ute Jacob, 
David Lindberg, James Lovvorn, Daniel Monson, Mark Novak, Craig 
Osenberg, M. Timothy Tinker

May 12-13, 2009
Title: Global climate change and adaptation of conservation priorities
Leader(s): M. Rebecca Shaw
Email(s): rshaw at tnc.org
Participants: Daniel Cayan, Frank Davis, Curtis Deutsch, Alan Flint, 
Alex Hall, Lee Hannah, Jim Lutz, Jason MacKenzie, Joel Michaelsen, Max 
Moritz, Chris Potter, Christophe Randin, Kelly Redmond, Helen Regan, 
Terry Root, Steve Schneider, Nate Stephenson, Alexandra Syphard, Karyn 
Tabor, Christina Tague, Anthony Westerling, Tom Wigley

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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