[Info] September 2013 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
September 2013

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

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows:  Ben Adams, Mark Browne, Mary Hunsicker, Katie 
Longo, Benoit Parmentier, Stacy Rebich Hespanha

Center Associates:  Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Amber Budden, Ben 
Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Jai Ranganathan, Kim Selkoe
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, September 2013:

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

September 6-8, 2013
Title: Dance with neighbors: What have we learned about species 
coexistence in tree communities from the global stem-mapped forest plots
Leaders: Fangliang He, Stephen Hubbell, Richard Condit, Thorsten Wiegand
Emails: fhe at ualberta.ca, shubbell at eeb.ucla.edu, conditr at gmail.com, 
thorsten.wiegand at ufz.de
Participants: Lei Chen, Chenjing Chu, Liza Comita, Matteo Detto, Andreas 
Huth, Stephen Murphy, Guochun Shen, I-Fang Sun, Junfeng Tang, Maria 
Uriarte, Igor Volkov, Jian Zhang

September 9-11, 2013
Title: Developing comprehensive management models for marine mammals
Leader: Leah Gerber
Email: leah.gerber at asu.edu
Participants: Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez, Eric Johnson, Carrie Kappel, 
Sarah Mesnick, Jeffrey Moore, Lindsey Peavey, Robert Wildermuth, Rob 
Williams

September 9-13, 2013
Title: Venture: Understanding how land-use change impacts the dynamics 
of vector-borne and water borne infectious disease of humans and 
domestic livestock
Leaders: Andrew Dobson, Nita Bharti, Matthew Bonds
Emails: dobber at princeton.edu, nita at psu.edu, mhbonds at gmail.com
Participants: Marcella Alsan, Andres Baeza, Christina Faust, Thomas 
Gillespie, Nicole Gottdenker, Petra Klepac, Eric Lambin, Michael Levy, 
Hamish McCallum, Calistus Ngonghala, Mercedes Pascual, Raina Plowright, 
Andy Tatem

September 10-11, 2013
Title: Conceptualizing an Institute for Sustainable Earth and 
Environmental Software (off site)
Leaders: Matthew Jones, Mark Schildhauer
Emails: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu, schild at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Daniel Ames, Betsy Aoki, Jennifer Arrigo, Karl Benedict, 
Carl Boettiger, Amber Budden, Bruce Caron, Scott Collins, Patricia 
Cruse, Cecelia DeLuca, Peter Fox, Jim Frew, David Fulker, Louis Gross, 
Stephanie Hampton, Edmund Hart, Rebecca Hernandez, Elizabeth Holmes, 
Lucas Joppa, Puneet Kishor, Tamara Ledley, Chris Mattmann, Tess Mayall, 
Carol Meyer, William Michener, George Oates, Jonathan Pollak, Amina 
Pollard, Mohan Ramamurthy, Jacob Redding, Mark Scheuerell, Rachel Smith, 
Thornton Staples, Carly Strasser, Michael Twidale, Maria José Viñas 
Garcia, Leah Wasser, Nicholas Weber, Brian Wee

September 12, 2013
Title: Steering Committee Meeting: Conceptualizing an Institute for 
Sustainable Earth and Environmental Software (off site)
Leaders: Matthew Jones, Mark Schildhauer
Emails: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu, schild at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Bruce Caron, Scott Collins, Patricia Cruse, Peter Fox, 
Stephanie Hampton, Chris Mattmann, Carol Meyer, William Michener

September 12-15, 2013
Title: Fungal pathogens and disease-induced extinction: Are fungal 
diseases different?
Leaders: Jamie Voyles, Cheryl Briggs, Auston Kilpatrick
Emails: jvoyles at nmt.edu, briggs at lifesci.ucsb.edu, akilpatr at ucsc.edu
Participants: David Blehert, Benjamin Bolker, Tina Cheng, James Collins, 
Matthew Fisher, Winifred Frick, Kate Langwig, Daniel Lindner, Hamish 
McCallum, Robert Puschendorf, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Craig Willis

September 24-26, 2013
Title: DataONE: Observation Network for Earth
Leaders: Matthew Jones, Stephanie Hampton
Emails: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu, hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Chris Brumgard, Roger Dahl, Ranjeet Devarakonda, 
Christopher Jones, John Kunze, Ben Leinfelder, Skye Roseboom, Robert 
Sandusky, Ryan Scherle, David Vieglais, Robert Waltz, Bruce Wilson

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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