NCEAS EcoLunch Seminar Series

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 Jai Ranganathan.

Fall 2008

August 28


Jacob Weiner, NCEAS & University of Copenhagen
Allocation, plasticity and allometry in plants

September 4 Daniel Schlenk, University of California, Riverside
Impacts of estrogenic activity in fish from the Southern California Bight
September 11Elizabeth Borer, Oregon State University
Fertilization, consumers, and competition: community context determines grassland viral prevalence
September 18
Francisco Madrinan, NCEAS
Investigating responses of riverine habitats and Pacific salmon to climate change
September 25Patrick Christie, University of Washington
Feasibility of marine protected area networks and marine ecosystem based management in the Philippines 

October 2    

Lauren Buckley, NCEAS
The broad-scale ecology of ectothermy
October 9
Anne Magurran, University of St. Andrews
Diversity and time
October 16

Howard Cornell, University of California, Davis
Can unsaturation be reconciled with strong interspecific competition in local species assemblages?

October 23

Sophie Parker, University of California, Santa Barbara
The impacts of invasive species in California grasslands: potential mechanisms of persistence

October 28 
*Tuesday*		Ben Gilbert, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dominance and diversity: Linking species abundances to their effects on community membership
October 30
Rich Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Forest responses to rising atmospheric CO2
November 6
Christine Peterson, NCEAS
Seasonal constraints on rockfish larval dispersal along the central California coast
November 13

Stephanie Hampton, NCEAS
Long-term warming in the world's largest lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia

November 20
 

Larry Crowder, Duke University   
Steps toward implementation of marine ecosystem-based management

November 27

Thanksgiving

December 4Jennifer Balch, NCEAS
Amazon transitional forests: sensitive or resistant to frontier fire?

December 9 
*Tuesday*

Vlastimil Krivan, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The evolutionary stability of the ideal free distribution
December 11

Kerry Woods, NCEAS & Bennington College
Why we don't know much about late-successional forests: working with long-term studies in slow systems controlled by rare events

Previous Schedules

2007


Winter/Spring 2008 

January 17

Jeanine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits and environmental gradients 

January 23 **Wednesday**Sam Luoma, USGS
Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California
January 31Carlos Melian, NCEAS
Unifying neutral theories of molecular, community and network evolution
February 7
Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota
Valuing ecosystem services:  the good, the bad and the ugly
February 14Christopher Lortie, York University
A net interction based approach to understanding plant community dynamics.

February 21     

David Atkinson, University of Liverpool & NCEAS
Temperature- and size-dependency of biological rates, and their ecological consequences
February 28
John Swaddle, The College of William and Mary & NCEAS
Urbanization, mate preference, and public health: the effects of development on avian and human societies
March 6

Chris Wilcox, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
An integrated approach to managing fisheries bycatch

March 13

Raphael Sagarin, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Darwinian Security: findings from an NCEAS working group on evolution and security

March 20
Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & NCEAS
TBA
March 27
Beth Witherell, Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
An introduction to Henry David Thoreau’s phenological data, collected in Concord, Massachusetts, between 1851 and 1861
April 3

Jai Ranganathan, NCEAS
Tiger, tiger, burning bright: hope for tiger conservation in the wilA

April 10
 

Andy Sih, University of California, Davis
Behavioral syndromes: evolutionary and ecological issues and implications

April 17

Nancy Baron, NCEAS & SeaWeb/COMPASS
Communicating Science: Bridging the Worlds between Scientists and Journalists

April 24Rowan Lockwood, The College of William and Mary & NCEAS
Is rarity linked to extinction in the fossil record? A case study using Cenozoic mollusks from the U.S. Coastal Plain
May 1 

Stefano Allesina, NCEAS
The spider and the web: inference in ecological networks

May 8

Mark Bradford, University of Georgia
Are soil microbial communities functionally equivalent?

May 15
Kim Schultz, SUNY & NCEAS
When "all you can eat" may not be enough: why ecologists should be as concerned with quality as quantity in the aquatic food web buffet
May 22Annette Ostling, University of Michigan
Do tradeoffs lead to neutral communities? 
May 29
Lonnie Aarssen, Queen's University
Death without sex - or how the meek plants have inherited the earth because of evolution 
June 3 David Bowman, University of Tasmania
Pyrogeography: integrating across the temporal, spatial and cultural dimensions of fire
June 5
Tristan Long, UCSB
Evolutionary consequences of sexual conflict
June 12
Lynn Maguire, Duke University
Endangered? threatened? not warranted?: criteria for ESA listing decisions