[Info] March 2011 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for March 2011

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Carol Adair, Jennifer Balch, Julia Baum, Jarrett 
Byrnes, Mariah Carbone, Liza Comita, Darren Johnson, Lesley Lancaster, 
Katie Longo, Jennifer O’Leary, John Parker, Stephanie Pau, Simon 
Queenborough, Josephine Rodriguez, Sadie Ryan, Lindsay Scheef, Carly 
Strasser, Jennifer Williams

Sabbatical Fellows: Kay Gross, David Marsh, Gary Mittelbach, Max Moritz, 
Joshua Tewksbury

Center Associates: Sandy Andelman, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Amber 
Budden, Steven Courtney, Ben Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Jai Ranganathan, 
Kim Selkoe, Alisa Wade
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, March 2011:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

March 7-9, 2011
Title: Ocean Health Index (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader(s): Benjamin Halpern
Email(s): halpern at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: James Boyd, Roger Cooke, Baruch Fischhoff, Steven Gaines, 
Katherine Longo, Karen McLeod, Andrew Rosenberg, Mary Ruckelshaus, Ussif 
Rashid Sumaila

March 16-18, 2011
Title: Development and application of scientific knowledge to 
ecosystem-based management of coastal marine systems
Leader(s): Benjamin Halpern
Email(s): halpern at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Sean Anderson, Nancy Baron, Julia Baum, Chris Brown, Gary 
Cherr, Chad English, David Festa, Ruth Gates, Stephanie Hampton, Carrie 
Kappel, Dane Klinger, Katherine Longo, Amber Mace, David Malakoff, 
Edward McCauley, Toni Mizerek, Chris Mooney, Max Moritz, Elizabeth 
Neeley, Mary O'Connor, Jennifer O'Leary, Lance Orozco, Charles Peterson, 
Elvira Poloczanska, Lindsay Scheef, Kimberly Selkoe, Sarah Simpson, 
Carly Strasser, Michael Todd, Mary Turnipseed

March 21-24, 2011
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, Ben Collen, Daniel Doak, Nick Dulvy, Elizabeth Holmes, 
Douglas Keinath, David Keith, Robert Lacy, Marta Nammack, Michael 
Schwartz, Andrew Shelton

March 21-25, 2011
Title: Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: translating 
results from model experiments into functional reality
Leader(s): Bradley Cardinale, Emmett Duffy, Dave Hooper
Email(s): bradcard at umich.edu, jeduffy at vims.edu, hooper at biol.wwu.edu
Participants: Carol Adair, Patricia Balvanera, Jarrett Byrnes, Laura 
Dee, Lars Gamfeldt, Andrew Gonzalez, Andrew Hector, Bruce Hungate, 
Jonathan Lefcheck, Kristin Matulich, Mary O'Connor

March 28-April 1, 2011
Title: Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas
Leader(s): Christopher Boone, Mary Cadenasso, J. Morgan Grove, Steward 
Pickett
Email(s): cgboone at asu.edu, mlcadenasso at ucdavis.edu, mgrove at fs.fed.us
Participants: Geoff Buckley, Daniel Childers, Michail Fragkias, Nancy 
Grimm, Melissa McHale, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Laura Ogden, Diane Pataki, 
Stephanie Pincetl, Kirsten Schwarz, Ali Whitmer, Weiqi Zhou


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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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