[Info] April 2011 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for April 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: David Marsh, 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, April 2011:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

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, 
picketts at caryinstitute.org
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

April 4-8, 2011
Title: Spatial Statistical Models for Stream Networks: Synthesis and New 
Directions
Leader(s): Erin Peterson, Jay Ver Hoef, Daniel Isaak
Email(s): erin.peterson at csiro.au, jay.verhoef at noaa.gov, disaak at fs.fed.us
Participants: Roger Bivand, Noel Cressie, Jason Dunham, Jeffrey Falke, 
Marie-Josee Fortin, Chris Jordan, Kristina McNyset, Pascal Monestiez, 
Aaron Ruesch, Aritra Sengupta, Nicholas Som, Ashley Steel, David 
Theobald, Christian Torgersen, Dale Zimmerman

April 6-8, 2011
Title: DataONE: Observation Network for Earth
Leader(s): Stephanie Hampton
Email(s): hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Archer Batcheller, Amber Budden, Cliff Duke, Wendy Gram, 
Corinna Gries, Heather Henkel, Vivian Hutchison, John Porter, Carly 
Strasser, Joshua Tewksbury, Kristin Vanderbilt, Linda Wayne

April 9-13, 2011
Title: When are matrix models useful for management? An empirical test 
across plant populations
Leader(s): Elizabeth Crone, Eric Menges, Martha Ellis
Email(s): ecrone at fas.harvard.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

April 11-12, 2011
Title: Engaging undergraduate students in ecological investigations 
using large, public datasets: Distributed Graduate Seminar
Leader(s): Teresa Mourad, Wendy Gram, Bruce Grant
Email(s): teresa at esa.org, wgram at neoninc.org, bwgrant at widener.edu
Participants: Barbara Abraham, Tiyi Brewster, Marnie Carroll, Michael 
Colgan, Denny Fernandez del Viso, Stephanie Hampton, Daniel Ingham, Tom 
Langen, Margaret Lowman, Janice Lozada-Delgado, Katherine Resto, Natasha 
Robinson, Josephine Rodriguez, Rachael Rodriguez, Amy Thompson

April 18-20, 2011
Title: INTEROP: A Community-driven scientific observations network to 
achieve interoperability of environmental and ecological data
Leader(s): Mark Schildhauer
Email(s): schild at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Luis Bermudez, Shawn Bowers, Cyndy Chandler, Simon Cox, 
Philip Dibner, Peter Fox, Corinna Gries, Jeff Horsburgh, Matthew B. 
Jones, Steve Kelling, Carl Lagoze, Hilmar Lapp, Joshua S. Madin, Peter 
McCartney, Deborah McGuinness, Chris Mungall, Margaret O'Brien, Mark 
Parsons, David Tarboton, David A. Vieglais, Campbell O. Webb

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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