[Info] April 2010 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for April 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: Ruth Gates, Leah Gerber, Michelle Mack, John Sabo, 
Ted Schuur

Center Associates: Sandy Andelman, 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, April 2010:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

April 6-8, 2010
Title: Ecosystem analysis of pelagic organism declines in the Upper San 
Francisco Estuary
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): efleishman at conbio.org, fleishman at bren.ic.ucsb.edu
Participants: Marissa Bauer, William Bennett, Larry Brown, Wim Kimmerer, 
Ralph Mac Nally, Ken Newman, Jim Thomson, Howard Townsend

April 9-13, 2010
Title: Monarch butterflies as a model for understanding the 
spatiotemporal dynamics of migratory species and their response to 
environmental change
Leader(s): Sonia Altizer, Karen Oberhauser, Leslie Ries
Email(s): saltizer at uga.edu, oberh001 at umn.edu, lries at umd.edu
Participants: Becky Bartel, Rebecca Batalden, James Battin, Lincoln 
Brower, Andrew Davis, Erica Fleishman, Dennis Frey, Elizabeth Howard, 
Nathan Nibbelink, A. Townsend Peterson, Eduardo Rendon, Orley Taylor, 
Elise Zipkin

April 12-16, 2010
Title: Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology
Leader(s): Aaron King, Pej Rohani
Email(s): kingaa at umich.edu, rohani at uga.edu
Participants: Stephen Ellner, Matthew Ferrari, Giles Hooker, Edward 
Ionides, Bruce Kendall, Ken Newman, Daniel Reuman

April 16, 2010
Title: Stats training workshop
Leader(s): Jim Regetz
Email(s): regetz at nceas.ucsb.edu

April 18-22, 2010
Title: Towards understanding marine biological impacts of climate change
Leader(s): Anthony Richardson, Elvira Poloczanska
Email(s): anthony.richardson at csiro.au, elvira.poloczanska at csiro.au
Participants: Keith Brander, Chris Brown, John Bruno, Lauren Buckley, 
Mike Burrows, Carlos Duarte, Mark Gibbons, Benjamin Halpern, Carrie 
Kappel, Pippa Moore, Mary O'Connor, John Pandolfi, Camille Parmesan, 
Maria Sanchez-Camacho, David Schoeman, William Sydeman

April 19-23, 2010
Title: Pyrogeography - fire's place in earth system science
Leader(s): David Bowman, Jennifer Balch
Email(s): david.bowman at utas.edu.au, balch at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Paulo Artaxo, Michael Bird, William Bond, Jean Carlson, 
Mark Cochrane, Carla D'Antonio, Ruth DeFries, John Doyle, Sandy 
Harrison, Fay Johnston, Jon Keeley, Meg Krawchuk, Christian Kull, John 
Marston, Max Moritz, I. Colin Prentice, Stephen Pyne, Christopher Roos, 
Andrew Scott, Navjot Sodhi, Thomas Swetnam, Guido van der Werf

April 23-25, 2010
Title: A graduate seminar network to facilitate synthetic research on 
context-dependency in the mycorrhizal symbiosis
Leader(s): Jason Hoeksema, James Bever
Email(s): hoeksema at olemiss.edu, jbever at bio.indiana.edu
Participants: Bala Chaudhary, Catherine Gehring, Miranda Hart, Nancy 
Johnson, John Klironomos, Roger Koide, Brook Milligan, Bridget Piculell, 
James Umbanhowar, Gail Wilson, Catherine Zabinski

April 24-28, 2010
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 Stegen, Nathan 
Swenson, Mark Vellend

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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