What's New (10-02-05~12-12-05)

12-12-05: Presentation: James Justus, "Selection of Representation Targets for the Design of Conservation Area Networks."

05-12-05: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Emergent Dynamics and Structure of Food-webs Evolving in Fluctuating Enviornments: Diversity Begets Stability, or Vice Versa?"

28-11-05: Reading: Moilanen, A., Franco. A., Early. R., Fox. R., Wintle. B. and Thomas. C. 2005. "Prioritizing Multiple-use Landscapes for Conservation: Methods for Large Multiple-species Planning Problems." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a Biological character, 272, 1885-1891.

14-11-05: Presentation: Michael Ciarleglio and William Cain, "Tabu Search."

07-11-05: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Conservation Assessment and Prioritization of Areas in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot."

31-10-05: Presentation postponed.

24-10-05: Presentation: Trevon Fuller, "Place Prioritization for Biodiversity Conservation in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)."

17-10-05: Reading: Margules, C. R. and Sarkar, S., Systematic Conservation Planning, Chapters 5 -6.

10-10-05: No meeting. National Ecological Observatory Network workshop in San Marcos.

03-10-05: Presentation: Suzanne Pierce, "Integration of Spatially Aggregated Physical Process Models within a Systems Dynamics Framework to Assist Policy Development and Decision Support in Water Resource Management."

01-10-05: V’ctor S‡nchez-Cordero (Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico) will be visiting BBCL from 03-10-05 to 10-10-05.

10-09-05: Patricia Illoldi (Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico) will be visiting BBCL until 19-09-05. She will be working on a conservation plan for Oaxaca.

01-09-05: Sahotra Sarkar spent August at the University of Queensland. Chris Margules and he finished a draft of their book, Systematic Conservation Planning.

12-07-05: Keith Wheeler from IUCN's World Conservation Learning Center visited our lab. yesterday; the event was organized by our Environmental Science Institute. We will help IUCN prepare educational material for use worldwide, and also orient the ConsNet Portal for their use.

10-07-05: Trevon Fuller will present a talk, "Stochastic Programming Methods for the Design of Conservation Area Net Works," at the European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology at Dresden, Germany, on 21 July 2005.

James Justus will present a talk, "How Should Ecological Stability Be Defined?," at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Biennial Meeting at Guelph, Canada, on 14 July 2005.

11-05-05: Chris Margules (CSIRO) is visiting our laboratory for three weeks to work on a book, Systematic Conservation Planning, with Sahotra Sarkar.

22-03-05: A. Townsend Peterson (University of Kansas) will be visiting us at Texas from 22-24 March 2005. He will be giving a talk, "Fine Scale Prediction of the Geography of Diseases," at 2:00 p.m. at MBB 1.210.

Sahotra Sarkar visited the University of Queensland, 13 March 2005-20 March 2005. He gave a talk, "Planning for Biodiversity," at the Spatial Ecology Laboratory (of Hugh Possingham).

Justin Garson won the Cogburn Philosophical Essay Contest Prize awarded by the Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2005.

Trevon Fuller got his paper, "Place Prioritization for Biodiversity Conservation with Uncertain Costs and Surrogate Distributions," accepted for the next Society for Conservation Biology Meeting at Brasilia, Brazil,15-19 July 2005.

14-02-05: Michelle Koo of the California Academy of Sciences is visiting BBCL from 14-02-05 to 17-02-05 to collaborate on our Eastern Himalayas project.

10-02-05: Sahotra Sarkar will be delivering three lectures at the University of Chicago on 22 February ("Planning for Biodiversity"); 23 February ("The Poverty of Design: Evolution and its Discontents"); and 24 February ("The Politics of Anti-Naturalism"). All lectures are from 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E. 57th Street (JRL S-118).