[Info] February 2010 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
February 2010

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Carol Adair, Jennifer Balch, Julia Baum, Amber 
Budden, Huiping Cao, Liza Comita, Darren Johnson, Lesley Lancaster, 
Carlos Melián, Duncan Menge, Mary O’Connor, John Parker, Stephanie Pau, 
Christine Petersen, Simon Queenborough, Josephine Rodriguez, Sadie Ryan, 
Lindsay Scheef, 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, Jai Ranganathan, Kim Selkoe, Alisa 
Wade
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, February 2010:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

January 28 - February 1, 2010
Title: Global Expansion of Jellyfish Blooms: Magnitude, Causes and 
Consequences
Leader(s): Robert Condon, William Graham, Carlos Duarte
Email(s): rob.condon at bios.edu, mgraham at disl.org, carlosduarte at ifisc.uib.es
Participants: Lucas Brotz, Craig Carlson, Michael Dawson, Mary Beth 
Decker, Steven Haddock, Cathy Lucas, Alenka Malej, Hermes Mianzan, Kylie 
Pitt, Jennifer Purcell, Kelly Robinson, Kentaro Suzuki, Shin-ichi Uye

February 10 – 12, 2010
Title: Ecosystem services on an urbanizing planet: What 2 billion new 
urbanites means for air and water
Leader(s): Robert McDonald, Peter Marcotullio
Email(s): rob_mcdonald at tnc.org, peter.marcotullio at hunter.cuny.edu
Participants: Jochen Albrecht, Ian Douglas, Balazs Fekete, Nancy Grimm, 
Jenny Gronwall, Rebecca Hale, Valentina Mara, Lilly Parshall, Carmen 
Revenga, Andrea Sarzynski, Niels Schulz

February 16 – 18, 2010
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: Paul Allen, Nick Brand, John Cobb, Roger Dahl, Michael 
Daigle, Jim Green, Jeff Horsburgh, Carl Lagoze, Hilmar Lapp, Giri 
Palanisamy, Robert Sandusky, Ryan Scherle, Mark Servilla, David 
Vieglais, Todd Vision, Robert Waltz, Bruce Wilson

February 22 – 26, 2010
Title: Parasites and food webs - the ultimate missing links
Leader(s): Kevin Lafferty, Andrew Dobson, Mercedes Pascual
Email(s): lafferty at lifesci.ucsb.edu, 
andy at eno.princeton.edu,dobber at princeton.edu, pascual at umich.edu
Participants: Stefano Allesina, Ed Baskerville, Andrew Beckerman, Alice 
Boit, Cheryl J. Briggs, Giulio De Leo, Jennifer Dunne, Thilo Gross, 
Pablo A. Marquet, Neo Martinez, Erin Mordecai, Owen Petchey, Richard J. 
Williams

February 23 – 25, 2010
Title: Cultural ecosystem services from marine and coastal systems: 
Counting the intangibles
Leader(s): Anne Guerry, Kai Chan
Email(s): anne.guerry at noaa.gov, kaichan at ires.ubc.ca
Participants: Vic Adamowicz, Patricia Balvanera, Xavier Basurto, Fikret 
Berkes, Ann Bostrom, Greg Bratman, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Gretchen Daily, 
Rachelle Gould, Benjamin Halpern, Neil Hannahs, Sarah Klain, Jordan 
Levine, Bryan Norton, Mary Ruckelshaus, Roly Russell, Terre Satterfield, 
Debra Satz, Heather Tallis, Ulalia Woodside

February 27 – March 3, 2010
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, William Morris, Gerard Oostermeijer, 
Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Tamara Ticktin, Teresa Valverde, Jennifer Williams

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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