NCEAS provides a stimulating "neutral territory" for interdisciplinary groups to collaborate on novel research in ecology and allied disciplines. Working Groups each include 10 to 15 researchers who visit NCEAS for 1 to 2 weeks at a time to focus intensely on the analysis and synthesis of existing information in their fields. The Center supports researchers' travel and provides the infrastructure necessary for deep analysis and collaboration in a hospitable environment. Proposals for new Working Groups are reviewed twice yearly and also may be solicited and reviewed irregularly in response to specific needs in the Conservation and Resource Management Program or the Ecoinformatics Program. The success of the NCEAS approach is evident from the impact that synthetic work has had on ecology and conservation. While the names of many NCEAS Working Group investigators are well known in the ecology and conservation communities, NCEAS is proud that 75% of participants are typically first-time visitors. NCEAS strongly encourages proposal submission by investigators who are new to NCEAS.
Working Group Projects November and December 2008
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader directly.
November 3-7, 2008
Title: Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics
Leaders: Lauren Buckley, Michael Angilletta, Robert Holt, Joshua Tewksbury
Emails: buckley@nceas.ucsb.edu, mangilletta@indstate.edu, rdholt@zoo.ufl.edu, tewksjj@u.washington.edu
Participants: Amy Angert, Brandon Cooper, Lisa Crozier, George Gilchrist, Sarah Gilman, Timothy Keitt, Joel Kingsolver, Warren Porter, Leslie Rissler, Michael Sears, Mark Urban
November 6-7, 2008
Title: Valuation of marine ecosystem services
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman@nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Christine Blackburn, Drew Bohan, Roelof Boumans, Kevin Boyle, Steve Colt, Meghan Ellis, Gillian Kerr, Gunnar Knapp, Ricardo Lopez, Tim O'Higgins, Hans Radtke, Nejem Raheem, Murray Rudd, David Stoms, Paula Swedeen, John Talberth, Chuck Willer
November 10-13, 2008
Title: Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): Building a community data base and testing the resilience - sustainability hypothesis across scales
Leaders: Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, Sander van der Leeuw
Emails: robert.costanza@uvm.edu, lisag@cals.arizona.edu, vanderle@asu.edu
Participants: Steve Aulenbach, Michael Burek, Sarah Cornell, Carole Crumley, John Dearing, Catherine Downy, Carl Folke, Michelle Hegmon, Kathy Hibbard, Stephen Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Rik Leemans, Charles Redman, Paul Sinclair, Sverker Sorlin, Will Steffen
November 10-14, 2008
Title: Evaluation of declines of pelagic organisms in the upper San Francisco Estuary
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman@nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Randy Baxter, Rich Breuer, Larry Brown, Mike Chotkowski, Fred Feyrer, Bruce Herbold, Peter Hrodey, Brenda Johnson, Karen Larsen, Sam Luoma, Anke Mueller-Solger, Matthew Nobriga, Daniel Schlenk, Ted Sommer, Kelly Souza
November 15-19, 2008
Title: Making decisions on complex environmental problems
Leaders: Helen Regan, Sahotra Sarkar
Emails: helen.regan@ucr.edu, sarkar@mail.utexas.edu
Participants: Mark Burgman, Mark Colyvan, Martin Drechsler, James Dyer, James Justus, Lynn Maguire, Christopher Margules, Tara Martin, Kristina Rothley
November 19-21, 2008
Title: Exploring compensatory mitigation and markets as mechanisms for resolving fisheries bycatch: Biodiversity conservation conflicts
Leaders: Chris Wilcox, C. Josh Donlan
Emails: chris.wilcox@csiro.au, cjd34@cornell.edu
Participants: Vanessa Adams, Peter Baxter, Larry Crowder, Richard Cudney, Kristen Fletcher, Jennifer Lavers, James Mandel, Sean Pascoe, Hoyt Peckham, Oliver Pergams, Drew Tulchin, Mary Turnipseed, Dana Wingfield
December 8 – 12, 2008
Title: Evaluation of declines of pelagic organisms in the upper San Francisco Estuary
Leader: Erica Fleishman
Email: fleishman@nceas.ucsb.edu
Participants: Larry Brown, James Cloern, Kathy Heib, Paul Hershberger, Ricardo Lopez, Jay Lund, Wendy Meiring, Nadav Nur, Bill Peterson, Thomas Powell, Ted Sommer, Mark Stacey, William Sydeman, Jan Thompson, Monika Winder
December 8 - 12, 2008
Title: Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
Leader(s): Brian Enquist, Richard Condit, Robert Peet, Brad Boyle, Steven Dolins
Email(s): benquist@email.arizona.edu, condit@stri.org, conditr@gmail.com, peet@unc.edu, bboyle@email.arizona.edu, sdolins@bumail.bradley.edu
Participants: Sandy Andelman, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Doug Daly, Naia Holme, Peter Jorgensen, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Yadvinder Malhi, Brian McGill, Oliver Phillips, Mark Schildhauer, Jens Svenning, Nathan Swenson, Barbara Thiers, Corine Vriesendorp, Susan Wiser, Hans ter Steege
December 10 – 14, 2008
Title: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
Leaders: Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn
Emails: bworm@dal.ca, rayh@u.washington.edu
Participants: Julia Baum, Trevor Branch, Felicia Coleman, Jeremy Collie, Christopher Costello, Michael Fogarty, Beth Fulton, Jeffrey Hutchings, Simon Jennings, Olaf Jensen, Heike Lotze, Pamela Mace, Tim McClanahan, Coilin Minto, Stephen Palumbi, Ana Parma, Daniel Ricard, Reg Watson, Dirk Zeller
