[Info] December 2012 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
December 2012

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows:  Ben Adams, Mark Browne, Mariah Carbone, Derek 
Gray, Katie Longo, Benoit Parmentier, Stephanie Pau, Stacy Rebich 
Hespanha, Josephine Rodriguez

Center Associates:  Nancy Baron, Amber Budden, Steven Courtney, Ben 
Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Jai Ranganathan, Kim Selkoe
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, December 2012:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

December 9-12, 2012
Title: Synthesizing theory and databases to advance a general framework 
for how warming affects trophic interactions
Leaders: Mary O'Connor, Hamish Greig
Emails: oconnor at zoology.ubc.ca, hamish.greig at canterbury.ac.nz
Participants: John DeLong, Benjamin Gilbert, Kevin McCann, Van Savage, 
Tyler Tunney, David Vasseur

December 10-15, 2012
Title: When is a mutualist a cheater? A synthesis of conceptual and 
data-based perspectives on the causes and consequences of variation in 
mutualist quality
Leaders: Emily Jones, Maren Friesen
Emails: eijones at wsu.edu, maren.l.friesen at gmail.com
Participants: Michelle Afkhami, Erol Akcay, Judith Bronstein, Redouan 
Bshary, Kevin Foster, Megan Frederickson, Katy Heath, Jason Hoeksema, 
Josh Ness, Sabrina Pankey, Stephanie Porter, Joel Sachs, Klara 
Scharnagl, John Stachowicz, Dylan Weese, Jimmy Woodward

December 11-15, 2012
Title: Forecasting phenology: Integrating ecology, climatology, and 
phylogeny to understand plant responses to climate change
Leaders: Benjamin Cook, Elizabeth Wolkovich
Emails: bc9z at ldeo.columbia.edu, wolkovich at biodiversity.ubc.ca
Participants: Kjell Bolmgren, Elsa Cleland, T. Jonathan Davies, Heather 
Kharouba, Nathan Kraft, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Nicolas Salamin, 
Steve Traver

December 15-20, 2012
Title: Establishing an open-source animal-tracking analysis platform for 
archival geolocators
Leaders: Eli Bridge, David Winkler, Eldar Rakhimberdiev, Nathaniel Seavy
Emails: ebridge at ou.edu, dww4 at cornell.edu, Eldar.Rakhimberdiev at nioz.nl, 
nseavy at prbo.org
Participants: Simeon Lisovski, Jim Regetz, Michael Sumner

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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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