WERC: Announcements

		Announcements
		Note: Only lead authors of presentations are named; papers and posters may be multi-authored. Presentations made by colleagues at the same events, which do not appear in the above announcements, may have WERC scientists as co-authors. For full citations, visit WERC Products or the respective conference web page. 20-23 February 2004 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Desert Tortoise Council (Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada). See the symposium program for detailed information on presentations. 13 February 2004 -- Panel Presentation in: Fire Ecology--The Role of Fire in Ecosystems by Jon Keeley at 11:10 a.m. at the Spirit of the Land symposium (Montezuma Hall, San Diego State University, San Diego, California). 16 December 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Sage grouse ecology in Mono County, CA by Michael Casazza at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room at 300 Mandich Street (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Bishop, California). 1 December 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Scales of Variability in Monitoring Changes in Channel Morphology by Mary Ann Madej at 11 a.m. in a workshop on water quality monitoring co-sponsored by the University of California and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Holiday Inn, Redding, California). 16-20 November 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology to be held jointly with the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress (Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, Florida). Click for list of specific presentations. 12 November 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Amphibians and Vernal Pools in the County of Orange by T'Shaka Toure' at 7:00 p.m. (Orange County Museum /Acorn Naturalist Center, Tustin, California). 9-13 November 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24th Annual Meeting in North America (Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas). Click for list of specific presentations. 8 November 2003 -- Oral Presentations by WERC scientist at the 2003 12th Annual Desert Tortoise Surveying, Monitoring, and Handling Techniques Workshop (Carriage Inn, Ridgecrest, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 5-9 November 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the 3rd North American Duck Symposium (Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, Sacramento, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 5 November 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Defaunated Food Webs: Large Vertebrates and Nature's Balance by Jim Estes at 4 p.m. at the First Annual Research Advances in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecology Symposium (LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon). 4 November 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Rivers on Rocks: The Influence of Geology on Fluvial Processes and Landforms by Mary Ann Madej at 8:40 a.m. in session 140 at the 2003 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition (Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington). 3-7 November 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems: Linking Science and Management and the 7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (Wyndham Bonaventure Resourt, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). Click for list of specific presentations. 30 October 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Creatures of the Night by Gary M. Fellers at 7 p.m. in Conference room A, building 3 at the USGS Western Region Evening Public Lecture Series (USGS Western Region Center, Menlo Park, California). 21 October 2003 -- Oral Presentation: The Biological Legacy of Mercury Contamination: Implications of Methylmercury Bioaccumulation for Estuarine Birds in San Francisco Bay by Steven Schwarzbach at 1:20 p.m. at the 6th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference (Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, California). 15 October 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the Invasive Species Symposium by The Wildlife Society Western Section (Radisson Hotel Sacramento, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 5 October 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Health Assessments of Tortoises in the Field: an Integral Part of Research, Monitoring, and Mitigation Projects by Kristin Berry in the (morning) workshop on "Gopher Tortoise Health, Assessments and Diagnostic Techniques" at the 25th Anniversary of the Gopher Tortoise Council (Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, Florida). 4 October 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Declining Trends Continue in Desert Tortoise Populations, California, USA by Kristin Berry at the 25th Anniversary of the Gopher Tortoise Council (Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, Florida). 29 September 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Natural and Managed Role of Fire in Shrubland and Grassland Restoration by Jon Keeley at (last speaker of 1:15-4:30 p.m. symposium "Issues in Restoration of Two California Habitats: Coastal Sage Scrub and Grasslands") at the 10th Annual Conference of the California Society for Ecological Restoration (SERCAL) (Asilomar conference grounds, Monterey, California). 27 September 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Parasites of Snails as Indicators of Estuarine Bird Communities by Kevin Lafferty in the "Invertebrate Diversity: Importance of the Rare and Not so Rare" session (morning) at the 2003 Natural Areas Conference (Mona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin). 26 September 2003 -- Award: Natural Areas Association 2003 Resource Stewardship to group (Cristina Sandoval, UC Natural Reserve System; Jennifer Stroh and Kendy Radasky, Santa Barbara Audubon; Kevin Lafferty, USGS) during banquet/awards ceremony at 7-10 p.m. at the 2003 Natural Areas Conference (Mona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin). 24 September 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Giant Garter Snakes: Morphology, Population Characteristics, Habitat Use and Movements by Glenn Wylie at 8:45 a.m. at the Giant Garter Snake Two-Day Workshop of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society (Holiday Inn Express, Elk Grove, California). 10 September 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Habitat Use of Giant Garter Snakes in Restored Wetlands at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge by Glenn Wylie at 11:30 a.m. in "Ecology: Amphibians and Mammals" session at the 10th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (Sheraton Burlington Hotel, Burlington, Vermont). 6 September 2003 -- Oral Presentation: The Continued Declining Trends in Desert Tortoise Populations in California between 1979 and 2002: Multiple Issues by Kristin Berry at 11:15 a.m. at the California Turtle and Tortoise Club's Symposium 2003 on the Current Conservation of Turtles and Tortoises, Public and Private Efforts (Carson Hilton, Carson, California). 28 August 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Human Footprints on the Web of Life by Robert N. Fisher at 7 p.m. in Conference room A, building 3 at the USGS Western Region Evening Public Lecture Series (USGS Western Region Center, Menlo Park, California). 14 August 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Reach-scale Channel Response to Sediment Pulses by Mary Ann Madej at 9 a.m. in room 205C in "Physical Factors Affecting Salmon Spawning and Egg Survival to Emergence: Integrating Science and Remediation Management" symposium at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (Convention Center, Québec City, Québec, Canada). 8 August 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Managing Cowbird Parasitism in Endangered Hosts: Management Success or Co-dependency? by Barbara E. Kus at 1:15 p.m. in "Ecology and Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions and Cowbird Management" symposium at the American Ornithologists Union annual meeting (University of Illinois campus, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois). 5 August 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Trophic Structure and Avian Communities across a Salinity Gradient in Evaporation Ponds of the San Francisco Bay Estuary by John Takekawa at 1:40 p.m. in "Tropic Dynamics" session 7 at the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, Working Group on Aquatic Birds meeting (Crabtree Auditorium, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada). 3-8 August 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (International Trade & Convention Center on Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia). Click for list of specific presentations. 28 June 2003 -- Oral Presentation: The World of Bugs by Krista Pease at 8 p.m. at a public campfire program at Mission Trails Regional Park (San Diego, California). 18 June 2003 -- Oral Presentation: White Pine Blister Rust, Fire and Long-term Demographic Trends of Sugar Pine in the Sierra Nevada: a Sticky Mess? by Phil van Mantgem at 11:15 a.m. at The 4th North American Forest Ecology Workshop: Ecosystems in Transition (CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Oregon State Univerity, Corvallis, Oregon). 5 June 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Sierra Nevada by Jon Keeley at 2:30-3:00 p.m. in the Inter-regional variation in fire regimes and fire history (panel and roundtable) session at the "2003 NCSSF Annual Symposium: Fire, Forest Health and Biodiversity" (Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, Colorado). 30 May-1 June 2003 -- Exhibits by WERC scientists at the USGS Menlo Park Open House 2003: "Safety and Prosperity Through Science" (Menlo Park Science Center, Menlo Park, CA). Click for list of specific exhibits. 22 May 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Following in the Footsteps of the Urban Coyote by Lisa Lyren and Chris Haas at 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the "Dogs: Wolf, Myth, Hero, and Friend" exhibition (San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California). 22 May 2003 -- Oral Presentation by Mary Ann Madej at the "Applying What We Are Learning: Sedimentation in Northern California Watersheds" workshop at the University of California Cooperative Extension (Santa Rosa, California). 14 May 2003 -- Panelist Jon Keeley at the "The Federal Government’s 'Healthy Forests' Initiative: Sound Wildfire Management or License to Log--A Roundtable Discussion" at the UCLA School of Law 1:30-4:50 p.m. (Los Angeles, California). Limited seating. To reserve a seat, please call Jeanne Fontenot at 310-794-5357. 8-10 May 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the Ecology and Identification of Sensitive Amphibians and Reptiles of Southern California (Riverside Marriott, Riverside, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 2-3 May 2003 -- Meet WERC scientists at the at the Las Vegas Integrated Science office open house (160 N. Stephanie St., Henderson, Arizona). 30 April-3 May 2003 -- Presentations given by WERC scientists at the 75th annual meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society (du Bois Conference Center on the Northern Arizona University campus, Flagstaff, Arizona). Click for list of specific presentations. 28 April 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Semi-Arid Shrubland and Grassland Ecosystems by Matt Brooks at 4:05 p.m. in Role of Fire on the Colorado Plateau session at the Integrated Fire and Resource Mangement course for National Park Service (class full) to be held Apr. 28-May 2 (Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, Arizona). 14-17 April 2003 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the joint annual meeting of the Western Division and California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (Hyatt-Islandia Hotel, San Diego, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 14-18 April 2003 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the George Wright Society Biennial Conference and Cultural Resources 2003 (Town and Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, Calif.). Click for list of specific presentations. 7 April 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Mountain Climatic Gradients as Natural Ecological Experiments: Results from the Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program by Nate Stephenson at 5 p.m. in the special session on Integrated Climate Research in Mountain Regions at the 20th annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop (Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California). 5 April 2003 -- Hands-on Workshop : “Shake, Rattle and Roll” by Mary Ann Madej at the 2003 Expanding Your Horizons Conference (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California). 31 March 2003 -- Oral Presentation: A Model for the Late Miocene Expansion of C4 Grasslands by Jon Keeley at 11:45 a.m. in the Poaceae session at the Third Third International Monocot Congress (Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California). 26-30 March 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Development of Mineral Site Counts to Reliably Index the Pacific Coast Breeding Population of the Band-tailed Pigeon by Mike Casazza at the 68th Annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (Adams Marsh Winston Plaza, Winston-Salem, North Carolina). 21 March 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Long-Term Acoustic Monitoring: How Reliable Are Bat Surveys? by Gary Fellers at 11:20 a.m. in the Mammals session at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California). 19 March 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Fecampia Erythrocephala, a parasitoid natural enemy of the European green crab, Carcinus Maenas by Armand Kuris for Kevin Lafferty, at 4:45 p.m. in the Perception, Patterns and Biological Control session at the Third International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (Sumner Hall, Scripps Institute on Oceanography, San Diego, California). 15 March 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Defaunated Food Webs: Vertebrate Consumers and Nature’s Balance by Jim Estes, the Ricketts Memorial Lecturer, at 2:30-3:15 p.m. at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Symposium, Sanctuary Currents 2003 (“Threatened and Thriving Species: Lessons from the Sea”) (California State University, Monterey Bay, University Center, Sixth Street, Seaside). 3-7 March 2003 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the 2003 Arid Southwest Lands Habitat Restoration Conference (Doral Palm Springs Resort in Palm Springs, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 27 February - 1 March 2003 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the 2003 Annual Conference of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society (Marriott Hotel in Irvine, California). Click for list of specific presentations. 21-24 February 2003 -- Presentations given by various WERC scientists at the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Desert Tortoise Council (Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada). Click for list of specific presentations. 21 January 2003 -- Oral Presentation: The Life and Changing Times of the Desert Tortoise by Kristin Berry at a pre-reception public lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Annenberg Theater to celebrate the new exhibition on this threatened species at the Palms Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California. 15 January 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Trends in Populations of Desert Tortoises at Long-term Study Plots in California between 1979 and 2002: Causes of Declines by Kristin Berry at 2:00-2:45 p.m. in the Flamingo Hotel in Laughlin, Nev., at the Society for Range Management's special meeting on the threatened Mojave desert tortoise. Spring 2003 -- Award: "Science, Society, Solutions 2001 Congressional Briefing Series" won a USGS Shoemaker Communications Product Excellence Award. WERC director Jeff Lovich was one of three speakers July 19, 2001, for the 4th briefing, titled "Invasive Species: Threatening Our Economy and Our Biological Heritage"; scientists from USGS and other agencies contributed slide images for his presentation. The Shoemaker awards, announced in December, will be formally made at the annual awards convocation later this spring, held regionally. 15 January 2003 -- Oral Presentation: Field Assessment of Mercury Exposure of Aquatic Birds in the Delta Ecosystem Using the Avian Egg by Steven Schwarzbach at 11:30am in Room 105 of the Sacramento Convention Center, Sacramento, Calif., in concurrent session titled "From Mining to Microbes: Unraveling the Mercury Cycle in the San Francisco Bay Watershed" at the Second Biennial CALFED Science Conference: Advances in Science and Restoration in the Bay, Delta and Watershed, Jan. 14-16, 2003.

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