I hope it's OK to use the list for this purpose... I was wondering if
anyone else from Davis was going to this, and if so, would they be
interesting in carpooling? Please email me off-list if so. Thanks!
Roberta
At 8:23 PM -0700 3/14/12, Nathan Rank wrote:
Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting: Saturday, 31 March, 2012
at Fairfield Osborn Preserve, Sonoma State University
Capturing Biological Diversity at Northern California
Nature Preserves
Northern California is a biologically rich environment where
many lineages of organisms from diverse origins have come together
and have rapidly diversified. It is also a populated region with
diverse land uses, an environment-conscious population, and many
invasive species that threaten native ecological communities.
Environmental change models offer differing predictions about future
conditions in the region. Our speakers will describe the coverage
of topographic and biological diversity found in the North Coast
region, especially in nature preserves. They will also describe
current efforts to document long-term changes in the environment.
Program organized by Nathan Rank and Claudia Luke of Sonoma State University.
Speakers:
Claudia Luke, Sonoma State University Nature Preserves- Introduction
to topic and speakers.
Lisa Micheli, Pepperwood Preserve- Ground up development of a
network to quantify biotic and environmental change in the North
Coast region.
Stuart Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Think Big,
Connect More: The Bay Area Conservation Lands Network.
Schedule and venue:
2:00 - Guided tour of Preserve trails. We will explore ponds
and creeks and visit an overlook with chapparal vegetation. We will
also observe invertebrate and amphibian diversity in Preserve
wetland habitats.
5:30 - Pizza, salad, and beverages at Fairfield Osborn Preserve
Education Center (6544 Lichau Road, Penngrove CA) cost approx. $12.
6:30 - talks followed by discussion.
Please email RSVP to Nathan Rank, [email protected] by Sunday Mar 25.
Please specify whether you wish to come on the Preserves guided tour
at 2:00 or just to the pizza and talks.
For directions, enter the address above into Google Maps or download
directions at
(http://www.sonoma.edu/preserves/docs/application/osborn_directions.pdf).
Parking is free, carpooling encouraged.
All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the
Biosystematists, a venerable yet exceptionally lively group that
provides the only inter-institutional seminar/discussion forum
addressing evolutionary topics in the Bay Area, visit our website
at: http://www.biosystematists.org/ to sign up for our mailing list.
--
Professor Roberta L. Millstein
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8673
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.RLM.net/
Phone: 530-554-1398
Fax: 530-752-8964
