[Info] December 2009 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
December 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, December 2009:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

December 7-11, 2009 (Off-site in Davis, CA)
Title: Potential interactions between urban runoff and decline of 
pelagic fishes
Leader(s): Daniel Schlenk
Email(s): daniel.schlenk at ucr.edu
Participants: John Melack, John Oram, Nathaniel Scholz, James Sickman, 
Frank Spurlock, Inge Werner, Don Weston, Qingfu Xiao, Thomas Young, 
Minghua Zhang

December 8-10, 2009
Title: Supporting decision making in the Coral Triangle Initiative: 
prioritizing socially and economically viable projects and places for 
biodiversity conservation
Leader(s): Hugh Possingham, Carissa Klein
Email(s): h.possingham at uq.edu.au, c.klein at uq.edu.au
Participants: Maria Berger, Joshua Cinner, Eddie Game, Hedley Grantham, 
Abdul Halim, Benjamin Halpern, Christina Hicks, Leah Karrer, Richard 
Leck, Fiorenza Micheli, Elizabeth Selig, Kimberly Selkoe, Mark Spalding, 
Annabelle Trinidad

December 8-11, 2009
Title: Developing an integrated botanical information network to 
investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant 
biodiversity
Leader(s): Brian Enquist, Richard Condit, Robert Peet, Brad Boyle, 
Steven Dolins
Email(s): benquist at email.arizona.edu, conditr at gmail.com, peet at unc.edu, 
bboyle at email.arizona.edu, sdolins at bradley.edu
Participants: Sandy Andelman, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Doug Daly, Karla 
Gendler, Naia Holme, Peter Jorgensen, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Yadvinder 
Malhi, Brian McGill, Oliver Phillips, Mark Schildhauer, Lindsey Sloat, 
Jens Svenning, Nathan Swenson, Barbara Thiers, Cyrille Voille, Corine 
Vriesendorp, Susan Wiser, Hans ter Steege

December 11-12, 2009
Title: NCEAS/COMPASS EBM Science Communications and Policy Workshop 
(sponsored by the Ecosystem Based Management Program)
Leader(s): Carrie Kappel, Stephanie Hampton, Ben Halpern
Email(s): kappel at nceas.ucsb.edu, hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu, 
halpern at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Jennifer Balch, Nancy Baron, Patrick Christie, Margaret 
Connors, Chad English, Elise Granek, Sally Hacker, Christopher Joyce, 
Christopher Kennedy, Sarah Klain, Carissa Klein, Emily Knight, Evamaria 
Koch, Jordan Levine, Elizabeth Neeley, Mary O'Connor, Richard Pollnac, 
Hugh Possingham, Jai Ranganathan, Jameal Samhouri, Kimberly Selkoe, 
Janna Shackeroff, Eric Stokstad, Heather Tallis, M. Timothy Tinker, 
Michael Todd, Allison Winter

December 15-17, 2009
Title: Human impacts of water infrastructure on watershed ecosystems and 
the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the coterminous US
Leader(s): John Sabo, Laura Bowling, Gerrit Schoups
Email(s): sabo at nceas.ucsb.edu, bowling at purdue.edu, gerrit.schoups at gmail.com
Participants: Thomas Dunne, William Graf, Tushar Sinha, Ellen Wohl


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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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Santa Barbara, Ca 93101-3351
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