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Winter Quarter Calendar
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 All seminars begin at 11:00 AM and are open to the public. See location and security info below.
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January 10
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Monster Seminar JAM -Fresh Water: It's for the fish...and the people! . Freshwater systems are one of the few places where managers have been forced to think about both nature and people for a long time. I will provide three examples of recent work using ecosystem service information in fresh water management decisions to reflect multiple objectives and deal with difficult tradeoffs. First, we have created a multi-objective maximization approach and associated software tool (RIOS) for targeting watershed restoration and management investments for cost-effective returns in freshwater services. This approach is being used in investment decisions in 40 watersheds across Latin America. Testing with simple models (InVEST) suggested that our targeted approach could yield up to 6-fold better erosion control returns than traditional investments. Future applications include retargeting agricultural subsidies in the Mississippi Basin to maximize agricultural yields, water quality and marine ecosystem service production in the Gulf of Mexico. Second, we have expanded traditional mitigation concepts to include impact assessment and mitigation requirements for ecosystem services. With a new concept called servicesheds, we can identify who will lose ecosystem services as a consequence of proposed development, and whether mitigation can return the same services to the same people. This equity-based approach would counter current limitations of mitigation programs such as those under the US Clean Water Act. Applications to date include coal mine permit assessment in Colombia and a proposed road through the Peruvian Amazon. In the future we plan to include freshwater services such as temperature regulation and fisheries and marine services such as coastal protection and nursery habitat. Finally, in these contexts and many others, monitoring is essential for policy assessment and understanding of system dynamics. I will present a new framework for monitoring ecosystem services and highlight its application for a global biodiversity observation network, GEO BON. Major limitations exist for observing marine ecosystem services and I will highlight opportunities for collaboration and expansion of this work
Heather Tallis
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January 17
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Monster Seminar JAM - Local adaptation and thermal tolerance in adult migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon populations. Every year, millions of sockeye salmon return to the Fraser River (BC, Canada) to perform their once-in-a-lifetime upriver spawning migration. There are over 100 geographically and genetically distinct populations within the Fraser River watershed, each of which experiences unique upriver migration conditions varying in migration distance (100-1,100 km), elevation gain (10-1,200 m), river temperature (9-22°C) and river flow (2,000-10,000 m3 s-1). Climate change-induced increases in summer river temperature have been associated with exceptionally high mortality in migrating salmon, raising conservation concerns. This research examined thermal tolerance and local adaptation across sockeye salmon populations over several levels of biological organization, from whole animal swimming and cardiorespiratory performance, organ performance, gross organ morphology, ultrastructure and receptors. Fraser River sockeye salmon populations appear to have physiologically adapted to their local upriver migration environment. In addition, some populations may be more susceptible to continued river warming, which has clear conservation concerns for biodiversity.
Erika Eliason
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January 24
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Monster Seminar JAM - A genes-to-ecosystems approach to ecolog.
Greg Cutsinger
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January 31
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Monster Seminar JAM - Oyster diets and ecosystem connectivity in Puget Sound.
Tish Conway Cranos
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February 7
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Monster Seminar JAM - Coupled human-ocean ecosystems: navigating toward ecological and social resilience.
Anne Salomon
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February 14
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Monster Seminar JAM - Relationships between growth, the cost of tissue synthesis, and standard metabolic rate: implications for habitat use and life-history adaptation in salmonids.
Jordan Rosenfeld
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February 21
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Monster Seminar JAM - Not impossible: integrating ecological considerations and cultural values into decision-making. kaichan@ires.ubc.ca
Kai Chan
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February 28
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Monster Seminar JAM - Tracking climate change in the northern California Current pelagic ecosystem: response of zooplankton in the Oregon upwelling zone to large-scale climate forcing with thoughts on the looming problems of hypoxia and ocean acidifi. bill.peterson@noaa.gov
Bill Peterson
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March 7
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Monster Seminar JAM - Small pelagic fish and climate. dcheckley@ucsd.edu
Dave Checkley
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March 14
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Monster Seminar JAM - From Ridge Tops to Wave Tops; Exploring the life history of Central California Steelhead in stream, estuarine and ocean habitats. sean.hayes@noaa.gov
Sean Hayes
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