NCEAS EcoLunch Seminar Series

Thursdays, 12:15pm (Brown Bag Lunch)
735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA
Phone: (805) 892-2500

Enjoy an exciting, informal presentation on current research pursuits by NCEAS, UCSB, and visiting scientists.
Sign up to receive EcoLunch announcements. If you are interested in presenting at an EcoLunch, please contact oconnor [at] nceas [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Mary O'Connor) or balch [at] nceas [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Jennifer Balch).

 

Fall 2009
 

 

September  3

                        
 

Sadie Ryan, NCEAS
Zoonotic buffet: a tour of diseases we share with animals
  September 10 John Williams, NOAA
Columbia River salmon: who (or what) will save them?
  September 17

Keith Brander, Technical University of Denmark
Effects of climate change on global fisheries 

  September 24

Bob Costanza, University of Vermont
Understanding the past to create a sustainable and desirable future 

  October 1

Meg Crofoot, Harvard University
The home field advantage: the relative importance of location and group-size in capuchin intergroup competition. 
  October 8

Mark Capelli, NOAA
Southern California Steelhead Recovery Planning under the Endangered Species Act
  October 15

Jarrett Byrnes, UCSB
Causes and consequences of biodiversity in southern California kelp forests
  October 22 Florian Altermatt, UC Davis
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics in Daphnia metapopulations
  October 29

Jérôme Mathieu, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Describing and testing spatial variation in ecological communities: some recent developments and applications

  November 5 Uromi Goodale, UC San Diego
Do pioneer species really like high light? Sri Lankan rain forest pioneer species' response to and recovery from extreme events 
  November 12 Carol Adair, NCEAS
Building a better model: How to best model long-term litter decomposition across diverse climates
  November 19

Michelle Mack, University of Florida
Novel disturbance in arctic tundra: Ecosystem consequences of a large fire on Alaska's North Slope
  November 26  Thanksgiving **No EcoLunch**
  December 3

Steven Courtney, Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
TBA
  December 10 Brian McGill, University of Arizona
Variation in abundance across space and between species - towards a general theory

Previous Schedules: 

2007

2008

2009 Jan - Aug