Here is a follow-up of the previous announcement, with more details:
Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting
Tuesday evening, April 12th, 2011
at San Jose State University, One Washington Square, Duncan Hall
'Spring Special'
"Monitoring Biosphere 1:
novel sampling strategies resolving effects
of environmental change"
Featuring a Diverse and Distinguished Panel of Discussants
Followed by vigorous audience discussion
Panel members representing different approaches will give short
informal presentations (10 minutes each), to be followed by active
audience participation
(this following the traditional dinner and beer, of course!)
Confirmed Panel Members:
Josh Mackie (SJSU, moderator)
Scott Shaffer (SJSU) will be presenting a synthesis of widely
collaborative work in a talk titled 'Tracking Apex Marine Predator
Movements in a Dynamic Ocean'
Kristen Kusic Heady (UCSC): 'Biogeographic patterns of the rocky
intertidal along the temperate Pacific Coast of North America'.
Kristen’s work demonstrates an increased precision in resolving
community structure dynamics. This precision in part stems from the
project’s broad origins, as survey work commenced in the Partnership
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) and the
Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Monitoring Network (MARINe) monitoring
programs.
Rebecca Terry (UCSC) will be discussing some broadly applicable
methods: incorporating fossils into ecological analyses to determine
pre-impact baseline data.
Gretchen LeBuhn (SFSU) will conclude the presentations with a talk
titled ‘The art of running a crowd-sourced science project’,
describing the Great Sunflower Project, an initiative that generates
data on flowering timing and pollinator populations, through a great
deal of involvement by the general public community.
The venerable Biosystematists group (http://www.biosystematists.org/),
operating since 1936 (see the history on the website), is the primary
inter-institutional seminar/discussion group on evolution for the Bay
Area, so we encourage everyone to join in.
Schedule and venue:
5:30 pm - Duncan Hall of Science (DH) Rm 549
Meal and Social gathering in the (in)famous "Head Room" (DH
549) with
beverages (beer and soft drinks) and informal Mexican dinner: cost
ca.
$10, to be collected at door
7:00 pm - Panel presentation in DH 250
The Duncan Hall of Science on the San Jose' State University campus is
located
on San Salvador St. between the 7th Street and 4th Street parking
garages.
Public parking permits are available at vending machines in both the
4th and 7th Street Parking garages.
Reservations required for beverages and dinner (but not the talk).
Please email reservations to your host,
Leslee Parr, at: [email protected] by Sunday, April 10th
For directions and a map of the campus, use the link below.
http://www.sjsu.edu/map/directions/
All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the
Biosystematists,
sign up for our mailing list at:
https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/[email protected]
