[Info] May 2010 Working Groups at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for May 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, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Steven 
Courtney, Ben Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Jai Ranganathan, Kim Selkoe, Alisa 
Wade
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, May 2010:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

May 5 - 10, 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, Michael Dawson, Mary Beth Decker, Steven 
Haddock, Lei Hu, Cathy Lucas, Hermes Mianzan, Claudia Mills, Kylie Pitt, 
Jennifer Purcell, Kelly Rakow Sutherland, Kelly Robinson, Shin-ichi Uye

May 7 - 8, 2010
Title: Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change 
(off-site in Seattle, WA)
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): efleishman at conbio.org, fleishman at bren.ic.ucsb.edu
Participants: Nancy Baron, Timothy Beechie, Samantha Chilcote, Forrest 
Cole, Cornelia Dean, Erin Euloth, Richard Harris, Ray Hilborn, Chris 
Jordan, John Kimball, Emily Knight, Rich Lincoln, Nathan Mantua, Robert 
McClure, Elizabeth Neeley, Randall Peterman, Christine Petersen, Tom 
Reed, Brian Riddell, Mary Ruckelshaus, Daniel Schindler, Dave Secord, 
Jack Stanford, Erik Stokstad, David Stoms, Eric Volk, Alisa Wade, Robin 
Waples, Michael Webster

May 24 - 28, 2010
Title: Developing best practices for testing landscape effects on gene 
flow: Distributed Graduate Seminar
Leader(s): Helene Wagner, Lisette Waits
Email(s): helene.wagner at utoronto.ca, lwaits at uidaho.edu
Participants: Niko Balkenhol, Sam Cushman, Rodney Dyer, Rolf 
Holderegger, Erin Landguth, Stephanie Manel, Jennifer Moore, Melanie 
Murphy, Yessica Rico, David Tallmon

May 24 – 28, 2010
Title: Forecasting phenology: Integrating ecology, climatology, and 
phylogeny to understand plant responses to climate change
Leader(s): Benjamin Cook, Elizabeth Wolkovich
Email(s): bc9z at ldeo.columbia.edu, wolkovich at nceas.ucsb.ed
Participants: Jenica Allen, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Kjell Bolmgren, 
Elsa Cleland, T. Jonathan Davies, Theresa Grimmins, Susan Mazer, Gregory 
McCabe, Brian McGill, Abe Miller-Rushing, Camille Parmesan, Nicolas 
Salamin, Mark Schwartz, Steve Travers

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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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