Session: Hot Topics in Ecology and Evolution: Climate Change, Conservation Biology, and How to Manage the Oceans of Data that Explain Them (2011 SACNAS National Conference)

Friday, October 28, 2011: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room A3 (San Jose Convention Center)

Chair:

Jory Weintraub, PhD, Assistant Director, Education and Outreach, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Description: This symposium explores how global climate change affects plants and animals, from both an evolutionary, and ecological/ecosystem perspective. It also highlights the emerging field of ecoinformatics, which allows scientists to manage and interpret the huge amounts of data that inform our thinking on climate change, conservation biology and related fields.

10:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:35 AM

How Climate Change and Environmental Uncertainty Explain Animal Appearance, Diet, and Behavior
Carlos Botero, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

11:00 AM

Beating the Heat to Compete: Using Mathematical Models to Predict the Winners and Losers as Biological Communities Fight to Survive Climate Change
Sharon Bewick, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee-Knoxville

11:25 AM

Clams, Submarines, Whales, and Data: How Marine Biology led me to Ecology 2.0
Carly Strasser, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara

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