[Local-info] September Events @ NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for 
September 2005

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

Current NCEAS Residents:
Postdoctoral Fellows: Peter Adler, Drew Allen, Pete Buston, Elsa 
Cleland, John Drake, Sergio Floeter, Nico Franz, Allen Hurlbert, Kate 
Lyons, Josh Madin, Christy McCain, Carlos Melian, John Orrock, Piet Verburg

Sabbatical Fellows: Margaret Kinnaird, Vlastimil Krivan, Bill Murdoch, 
Timothy O’Brien, Dianna Padilla, Mark Ritchie

NCEAS/Packard Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Research: Ben Halpern, 
Shaun Walbridge

Center Associates: John Alroy, Nancy Baron

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Upcoming Working Group Projects for September 2005
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

September 7-8, 2005
Science Advisory Board
Leader: Mary Ruckelshaus
Email: mary.ruckelshaus at noaa.gov
Participants: Jill Baron, Walter Carson, Deborah A. Clark, Lisa J. 
Graumlich, Bryan Grenfell, Alan Hastings, Michael Hochberg, Pablo A. 
Marquet, Bruce A. Menge, Fiorenza Micheli, William F. Morris, Jason 
Neff, Roger M. Nisbet, Alexander Pfaff, Catherine Pringle, Beverly 
Rathcke, Mary Ruckelshaus, M. Rebecca Shaw, Mary Voytek

September 9-11, 2005
Paleobiology Database: Vertebrate Paleontology (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: John Alory
Email: alroy at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Anna K. Behrensmeyer , Matthew Carrano, William C. Clyde, 
Emmanuel Fara, Mikael Fortelius, Jason Head, John P. Hunter, Mark D. 
Uhen, Xiaoming Wang

September 9-12, 2005
Global change and infectious disease
Leader: Mark L. Wilson
Email: wilsonml at umich.edu
Participants: Jorge Ahumada, Menno J. Bouma, Andrew P. Dobson, Sunetra 
Gupta, William Hawley, Simon Hay, Ellis McKenzie, Mercedes Pascual, 
Leslie A. Real, Xavier Rodo, David L. Smith, Katherine F. Smith,

September 21-25, 2005
Gradients in biodiversity and speciation
Leader: Gary Mittelbach, Howard V. Cornell, Douglas W. Schemske
Email: mittelbach at kbs.msu.edu, hvcornell at ucdavis.edu, schem at msu.edu
Participants: Drew Allen, Timothy G. Barraclough, Mark Bush, Howard V. 
Cornell, Allen Hurlbert, David Jablonski, Nancy Knowlton, Harilaos A. 
Lessios, Amy R. McCune, Lucinda A. McDade, Mark A. McPeek, Thomas J. 
Near, Sean Nee, Allen Orr, Trevor Price, Robert E. Ricklefs, Kaustuv 
Roy, Douglas W. Schemske, Dolph Schluter, Jay Sobel, Michael Turelli

September 22-24, 2005
Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities
Leader: John C. Moore
Email: john.moore at unco.edu
Participants: Eric Berlow, Quan Dong, Alan Hastings, Kevin S. McCann, 
Kim Melville, Peter J. Morin, Amy Rosemond, , Kate Scow, Michael J. 
Vanni, Peter C. de Ruiter

September 26-29, 2005
Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem 
services too?
Leader: Peter Kareiva, Taylor Ricketts, Gretchen Daily, Stephen Polasky
Email: pkareiva at tnc.org, taylor.ricketts at wwfus.org, 
gdaily at leland.stanford.edu, spolasky at dept.agecon.umn.edu
Participants: Paul R. Armsworth, Andrew Balmford, Kai Chan, Tom Dillon, 
Qun Qun Du, William F. Fagan, Kathleen Farley, Jixi Gao, Michael Heiner, 
Bernhard Lehner, Li Lifeng, Jack Liu, Robin Naidoo, Ye Qi, James N. 
Sanchirico, M. Rebecca Shaw, Paul West

September 26-30, 2005
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: Matthew B. Jones
Email: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Shawn Bowers, David R. Chalcraft, Christopher Clark, Elsa 
Cleland, Stephen B. Cox, Manu Juyal, Bertram Ludaescher, Peter 
McCartney, Deana D. Pennington, Mark P. Schildhauer, Katharine N. 
Suding, Ferdinando Villa, Evan Weiher

September 30-October 2, 2005
Paleobiology Database: Taphonomy sub-group (Hosted by NCEAS)
Leader: John Alory
Email: alroy at nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Anna K. Behrensmeyer , Franz T. Fursich, Robert A. 
Gastaldo, Susan Kidwell, Matthew Kosnik, Michal Kowalewski, Roy E. 
Plotnick, Raymond R. Rogers


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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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