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 Marc Cadotte.
Winter/Spring 2008
January 17 | Jeanine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota |
| January 23 **Wednesday** | Sam Luoma, USGS Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California |
| January 31 | Carlos 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 14 | Christopher 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 |
| March 13 | Raphael Sagarin, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University |
| 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 |
April 10 | Andy Sih, University of California, Davis |
| April 17 | Nancy Baron, NCEAS & SeaWeb/COMPASS |
| April 24 | Rowan 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 |
| May 8 | Mark Bradford, University of Georgia |
| 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 22 | TBA TBA |
| May 29 | Lonnie Aarssen, Queen's University Death without sex - or how the meek plants have inherited the earth because of evolution |
| 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 |
Fall 2007
August 30 | Peter Mumby, University of Exeter |
| September 6 | Jim Bever, Indiana University Ecological dynamics and evolutionary maintenance of the mycorrhizal mutualism |
| September 13 | Andrew Campbell, Triple Helix Consulting Developments Downunder - current trends in science and policy for managing Australian landscapes |
| September 20 | Brian Silliman, University of Florida Climate change, food webs and new paradigms in marine ecology |
| September 27 | Jim Brown, University of New Mexico Productivity and kinetics: the metabolic basis of species diversity |
October 5 **Friday Ecolunch** | Rob Dunn, North Carolina State University Climate and global patterns of ant diversity and invasion |
| October 11 | Marc Cadotte, NCEAS Species diversity and spatially-dependent mechanisms of coexistence |
| October 18 | David Alonso, University of Michigan |
| October 25 | Bill Dennison, University of Maryland |
| November 1 | Nick Shears, University of California - Santa Barbara Context dependent effects of fishing on kelp forest ecosystems |
| November 8 | Louie Yang, University of California - Santa Barbara Resource pulses, periodical cicadas and the ecology of extreme events |
| November 15 | Andrew Allen, NCEAS |
| November 22 | No EcoLunch - Thanksgiving holiday |
November 27 | Astrid Kodric-Brown, University of New Mexico & NCEAS |
| November 29 | Lawrence McCook, Manager, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority & Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation |
| December 6 | Aaron King, University of Michigan New insights into cholera dynamics: asymptomatic infections, rapid loss of immunity, and mode of transmission |
| December 13 | Jacob Weiner, University of Copenhagen & NCEAS Applying plant population ecology - increasing the suppression of weeds by cereal crops |
