[Info] March 2010 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for March 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, March 2010:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

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, Amanda Stanley, Tamara Ticktin, Teresa 
Valverde, Jennifer Williams

March 3-4, 2010
Title: Science Advisory Board
Leader(s): James D. Bever
Email(s): jbever at bio.indiana.edu
Participants: Mary V. Ashley, Ottar N. Bjornstad, Cheryl J. Briggs, 
Gerardo Ceballos, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Timothy E. Essington, Stephanie 
E. Hampton, Stephanie E. Hampton, Elizabeth E. Holmes, Matthew B. Jones, 
Jennifer Hughes Martiny, Edward McCauley, Maria Miriti, Craig W. 
Osenberg, Elise Pendall, Catherine A. Pfister, Taylor Ricketts, Felisa 
A. Smith, Jennifer Tank, Peter Thrall

March 16-19, 2010
Title: Applying population ecology to strategies for eradicating 
invasive forest insects
Leader(s): Andrew Liebhold, Deborah McCullough
Email(s): aliebhold at gmail.com, mccullo6 at msu.edu
Participants: Ludek Berec, Julie Blackwood, Robert Haight, Alan 
Hastings, Dan Herms, John Kean, Danny Lee, Becky Niell, Max Suckling, 
Patrick Tobin, Takehiko Yamanaka

March 17-19, 2010 (Off-site)
Title: Potential interactions between urban runoff and decline of 
pelagic fishes
Leader(s): Daniel Schlenk
Email(s): daniel.schlenk at ucr.edu
Participants: Larry Brown, John Melack, John Oram, Nathaniel Scholz, 
James Sickman, Frank Spurlock, Inge Werner, Don Weston, Qingfu Xiao, 
Thomas Young, Minghua Zhang

March 18-21, 2010
Title: Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal 
habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
Leader(s): Elise Granek, Evamaria Koch, Edward Barbier, David Stoms, 
Shankar Aswani-Canela
Email(s): graneke at pdx.edu, koch at hpl.umces.edu, ebarbier at uwyo.edu, 
stoms at bren.ucsb.edu, aswani at anth.ucsb.edu
Participants: Sarah Freed, Sally Hacker, Benjamin Halpern, Carrie 
Kappel, Christopher Kennedy, Stephen Polasky

March 22-26, 2010
Title: Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers 
for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance 
of organisms
Leader(s): Brian McGill, Walter Jetz, Robert Guralnick, Jana McPherson
Email(s): mail at brianmcgill.org, walter.jetz at yale.edu, 
robert.guralnick at colorado.edu, jana.mcpherson at dal.ca
Participants: Lauren Buckley, David Conklin, Jane Elith, Simon Ferrier, 
Rodney Forster, Robert Hijmans, John Leathwick, Christy McCain, 
Ramakrishna Nemani, Steven Phillips, Thiago Fernando Rangel, Sassan 
Saatchi, Florencia Sangermano, Woody Turner

March 24-27, 2010
Title: Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model
Leader(s): John Callaway, Steve Crooks, Pat Megonigal, Abe Doherty
Email(s): callaway at usfca.edu, s.crooks at pwa-ltd.com, megonigalp at si.edu, 
adoherty at scc.ca.gov,
Participants: Richard Ambrose, Christopher Craft, Doherty, Stephen 
Faulkner, Jason Keller, Shuguang Liu, James Morris, Enrique Reyes, 
Lisamarie Windham-Myers


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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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