[Info] May 2011 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

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

May 2-6, 2011
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, ewolkovich at ucsd.edu
Participants: Jenica Allen, Elsa Cleland, Theresa Crimmins, T. Jonathan 
Davies, Nathan Kraft, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Nicolas Salamin, Steve 
Travers, S. Joseph Wright

May 10-13, 2011
Title: Supporting decision making in the Coral Triangle Initiative: 
Prioritizing socially and economically viable projects and places for 
biodiversity conservation EBM
Leader(s): Hugh Possingham, Carissa Klein
Email(s): h.possingham at uq.edu.au, c.klein at uq.edu.au
Participants: Vera Agostini, Maria Beger, Michael Bode, Joshua Cinner, 
Zach Ferdana, Helen Fox, Edward Game, Hedley Grantham, Abdul Halim, 
Benjamin Halpern, Robecca Jumin, Stacy Jupiter, Azusa Makino, Elizabeth 
Selig, Kimberly Selkoe, Mark Spalding, Annabelle Trinidad

May 10-14, 2011
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, Benjamin Halpern, Johnna Holding, Carrie 
Kappel, Wolfgang Kiessling, Pippa Moore, Mary O'Connor, John Pandolfi, 
David Schoeman, Franklin Schwing, William Sydeman

May 15-16, 2011
Title: Global climate change and adaptation of conservation priorities
Leader(s): M. Rebecca Shaw
Email(s): rshaw at edf.org
Participants: Frank Davis, Alan Flint, Lorrie Flint, Janet Franklin, 
Alex Hall, Lee Hannah, Maki Ikegami, Max Moritz, Malcolm North, Kelly 
Redmond, Helen Regan, Patrick Roehrdanz, Alexandra Syphard

May 17-20, 2011
Title: Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests
Leader(s): Cory Cleveland, Alan Townsend
Email(s): cory.cleveland at umontana.edu, alan.townsend at colorado.edu
Participants: Silvia Alvarez-Clare, Mercedes Bustamante, Eric Davidson, 
Kyle Harms, Benjamin Houlton, Adrienne Keller, Alison Marklein, Helene 
Muller-Landau, Stephen Porder, Sasha Reed, Whendee Silver, Edmund 
Tanner, Philip Taylor, Peter Thornton, Will Wieder

May 17-22, 2011
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, Andrew 
Davis, Erica Fleishman, Dennis Frey, Elizabeth Howard, Kelly Nail, 
Nathan Nibbelink, Eduardo Rendon, Louie Yang, Elise Zipkin

May 21-25, 2011
Title: Climate change and invasive species: are non-natives poised for 
greater success in future climatic conditions?
Leader(s): Cascade Sorte, Jeffrey Dukes, Joshua Lawler
Email(s): cjsorte at ucdavis.edu, jsdukes at purdue.edu, jlawler at u.washington.edu
Participants: Dana Blumenthal, Bethany Bradley, Carla D'Antonio, Jeffrey 
Diez, Regan Early, Edwin Grosholz, Ines Ibanez, Sierra Jones, Luke 
Miller, Julian Olden, Wilfried Thuiller

May 23-26, 2011
Title: Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and 
population dynamics
Leader(s): Lauren Buckley, Michael Angilletta, Robert Holt, Joshua Tewksbury
Email(s): buckley at bio.unc.edu, michael.angilletta at asu.edu, 
rdholt at zoo.ufl.edu, tewksbury at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Amy Angert, Lisa Crozier, George Gilchrist, Sarah Gilman, 
Leslie Rissler, Michael Sears

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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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