[Info] September 2010 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

  National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
September 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, Liza Comita, Darren Johnson, Lesley Lancaster, Katie Longo, Mary 
O’Connor, Jennifer O’Leary, John Parker, Stephanie Pau, Christine 
Peterson, Simon Queenborough, Josephine Rodriguez, Sadie Ryan, Lindsay 
Scheef, Carly Strasser, Jennifer Williams

Sabbatical Fellows: Ruth Gates, David Marsh, Max Moritz, Joshua Tewksbury

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, September 2010:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

September 1-2, 2010
Title: Science Advisory Board
Leader(s): Taylor Ricketts
Email(s): taylor.ricketts at wwfus.org
Participants: Sonia Altizer, Mary V. Ashley, Ottar N. Bjornstad, Ben 
Bolker, Cheryl J. Briggs, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Lisa Curran, Timothy E. 
Essington, John M. Fryxell, Elizabeth E. Holmes, Andrew M. Liebhold, 
Elena Litchman, Maria Miriti, Craig W. Osenberg, Elise Pendall , John 
Sabo, Felisa A. Smith

September 5-10, 2010
Title: Supporting decision making in the Coral Triangle Initiative: 
Prioritizing socially and economically viable projects and places for 
biodiversity conservation (off-site in Australia)
Leader(s): Hugh Possingham, Carissa Klein
Email(s): h.possingham at uq.edu.au, c.klein at uq.edu.au
Participants: Vera Agostini, Porfirio Alino, Willie Atu, Maria Beger, 
Travis Bover, Joshua Cinner, Darmawan, Leanne Fernandes, Helen Fox, 
Edward Game, Leah Gerber, Hedley Grantham, Alison Green, Abdul Halim, 
Benjamin Halpern, Richard Hamilton, James Hardcastle, Christina Hicks, 
Robecca Jumin, Stacey Jupiter, Richard Leck, Paul Lokani, Azusa Makino, 
Fiorenza Micheli, Candice Mohan, Nor Aieni Hj. Mokhtar, Stephen Oxley, 
Eko Rudianto, Astrid Scholz, Elizabeth Selig, Kimberly Selkoe, Mark 
Spalding, Danika Tager, John Tanzer, Annabelle Trinidad

September 13-17, 2010
Title: Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data 
from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
Leader(s): Richard Norby, Yiqi Luo, Ram Oren, I. Colin Prentice, Paul 
Hanson
Email(s): rjn at ornl.gov, yluo at ou.edu, ramoren at duke.edu, 
colin.prentice at bris.ac.uk, hansonpj at ornl.gov
Participants: Michael Dietze, Thomas Hickler, Atul Jain, Julian Jenkins, 
David Kicklighter, Belinda Medlyn, William Parton, M. Lynn Tharp, Peter 
Thornton, Anthony Walker, Ying-Ping Wang,
Shusen Wang, Yuanhe Yang, Sonke Zaehle

September 14-17, 2010
Title: Ecotoxicology of the gulf oil spill: a holistic framework for 
assessing impacts (off-site in Alabama)
Leader(s): Sean Anderson, Gary Cherr, Charles "Pete" Peterson
Email(s): sean.anderson at csuci.edu, gncherr at ucdavis.edu, 
cpeters at email.unc.edu
Participants: Richard Ambrose, Shelly Anghera, Steve Bay, Robert Condon, 
Thomas Dean, William Graham, Michael Guzy, Stephanie Hampton, Samantha 
Joye, John Lambrinos, Bruce Mate, Doug Meffert, Sean Powers, Christopher 
Reddy, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Robert Spies, Caz Taylor, Ron Tjeerdema, 
Joseph Torres, Kim Trust

September 15-18, 2010
Title: Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): 
Building a community data base and testing the resilience - 
sustainability hypothesis across scales
Leader(s): Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, Sander van der Leeuw
Email(s): robert.costanza at uvm.edu, lisag at cals.arizona.edu, vanderle at asu.edu
Participants: Steve Aulenbach, Stephan Barthel, Simon Brewer, Michael 
Burek, David Cleveland, Sarah Cornell, Carole Crumley, John Dearing, 
Joel Gunn, Scott Heckbert, Kathy Hibbard, Stephen Jackson, Ida 
Kubiszewski, Vernon Scarborough, Paul Sinclair, Sverker Sorlin, Will 
Steffen

September 15-18, 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, Omar Aziz, Christopher Craft, Stephen 
Faulkner, Jason Keller, Shuguang Liu, Sian Mooney, James Morris, Enrique 
Reyes, Lisa Schile, Lisamarie Windham-Myers

September 22-23, 2010
Title: Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change 
(off-site in Washington)
Leader(s): Erica Fleishman
Email(s): fleishman at bren.ucsb.edu
Participants: Timothy Beechie, John Kimball, Richard Lincoln, Nathan 
Mantua, Randall Peterman, Christine Petersen, Tom Reed, Jeffrey Rodgers, 
Mary Ruckelshaus, Daniel Schindler, Jack Stanford, Alisa Wade, Robin 
Waples, Michael Webster

September 28 – October 1, 2010
Title: Red flags and species endangerment: Meta-analytical development 
of criteria for assessing extinction risk
Leader(s): Robin Waples, Jeffrey Hutchings
Email(s): robin.waples at noaa.gov, jeff.hutchings at dal.ca
Participants: H. Resit Akcakaya, Priyanga Amarasekare, Stuart Butchart, 
Jean Cochrane, Daniel Doak, Nick Dulvy, Elizabeth Holmes, Douglas 
Keinath, David Keith, Robert Lacy, Georgina Mace, Marc Mangel, Marta 
Nammack, Michael Schwartz



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Ginger Gillquist
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