[Info] REVISED November 2009 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
November 2009

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Carol Adair, Jennifer Balch, Amber Budden, Huiping 
Cao, Jonathan Davies, Darren Johnson, Lesley Lancaster, Carlos Melián, 
Duncan Menge, Mary O’Connor, John Parker, Christine Petersen, Jai 
Ranganathan, Sadie Ryan, Jennifer Williams, Elizabeth Wolkovich

Sabbatical Fellows: Leah Gerber, Michelle Mack, John Sabo, Ted Schuur

Center Associates: John Alroy, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Steven 
Courtney, Ben Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Kim Selkoe, Alisa Wade
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, November 2009:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.


November 2-4, 2009
Title: Global climate change and adaptation of conservation priorities
Leader: M. Rebecca Shaw
Email: rshaw at tnc.org
Participants: Daniel Cayan, Frank Davis, Alan Flint, Alex Hall, Lee 
Hannah, Jim Lutz, Joel Michaelsen, Max Moritz, Kelly Redmond, Helen 
Regan, Nate Stephenson, Alexandra Syphard, Anthony Westerling, Tom Wigley


November 5-7, 2009
Title: Evolutionary ecology of primate life histories (funded jointly 
with NESCent)
Leader(s): Karen Strier, Susan Alberts
Email(s): kbstrier at wisc.edu, alberts at duke.edu
Participants: Jeanne Altmann, Diane Brockman, Anne Bronikowski, Marina 
Cords, Linda Fedigan, William Morris, Anne Pusey, Tara Stoinski


November 5-8, 2009
Title: The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients
Leader(s): Howard Cornell, Susan Harrison, Christy McCain
Email(s): hvcornell at ucdavis.edu, spharrison at ucdavis.edu, 
christy.mccain at colorado.edu
Participants: David Ackerly, Andrew Allen, Brian Anacker, Lauren 
Buckley, Ellen Damschen, T. Jonathan Davies, John Grytnes, Bradford 
Hawkins, Robert Holt, Nathan Kraft, Kaustuv Roy, Patrick Stephens, John 
Wiens


November 9-13, 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


November 9-13, 2009
Title: A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of 
beta-diversity along ecological gradients
Leader(s): Jonathan Chase, Nathan Sanders, Amy Freestone
Email(s): jchase at biology2.wustl.edu, nsanders at utk.edu, 
amy.freestone at temple.edu
Participants: Marti Anderson, Howard Cornell, Thomas Crist, Kendi 
Davies, Susan Harrison, Brian Inouye, Nathan Kraft, James Stegan, Nathan 
Swenson, Mark Vellend


November 16-17, 2009
Title: Postdoctoral training in stats modeling (conducted by David Anderson)
**For information about the stats training, please contact coordinator 
Sadie Ryan at sjryan at nceas.ucsb.edu
Leader: Stephanie Hampton
Email: hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Jennifer Balch, Amber Budden, Leah Gerber, Ben Halpern, 
Stephanie Hampton, Darren Johnson, Carrie Kappel, Lesley Lancaster, 
Duncan Menge, Michelle Mack, Amelia Nuding, Mary O'Connor, Jai 
Ranganathan, Jim Regetz, Sadie Ryan, Kim Selkoe, Oliver Soong, Jennifer 
Williams, Elizabeth Wolkovich

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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