#ChangingPlanet

Monday September 14, 2015. Open to the public, registration opens on August 4th.
A Special Photo Exhibition Will Be Displayed in the David Brower Entrance Gallery During the Event:
Nepal, Then and Now, by photographer, writer, and conservation activist Kashish Das Shrestha. Over the years Kashish has used his work as a photographer to fund his research on contemporary environment issues and advise on sustainable development policies in Nepal.
Welcome and Overview
8:00-8:10 Anthony Barnosky/Elizabeth Hadly/Jussi Eronen: Welcome and Overview
8:10-8:15 Charles Marshall. Welcome from UCMP & BIGCB
Session 1. The Conservation Landscape
Session Chair: Anthony Barnosky
8:15-8:30 Lynn Stegner. A Capacity for Hope
8:30-8:45 Justin Brashares. Conservation Opportunities
8:45-9:00 Elizabeth A. Hadly. What’s Left to Save?
Keynote speakers
9:00-9:15 KEYNOTE 1: Ken Alex (Director, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research). Better Policy Though Science?
Coffee Break 9:15-9:45
9:45-10:00 KEYNOTE 2: Nils Chr. Stenseth. Where Paleobiology Meets Conservation Biology
Session 2. Responding to Global Change
Session Chair: Katie Solari
10:00-10:15 Steve Jackson. Conserving Nature in a World of Change
10:15-10:30 Patrick Gonzalez. Climate Change in National Parks
10:30-10:45 Kashish Das Shrestha. Science, Conservation, and Policy in the New Nepal
Session 3. The Interplay of Science and Policy (Panel Discussion)
Moderator: Elizabeth Hadly
10:45-11:30 Holly Doremus (Environmental Law)
Eric Biber (Environmental Law)
Ken Alex (California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research)
LUNCH 11:30 - 12:30
Session 4. Defining Conservation Goals: Some Regional Perspectives (Panel Discussion)
Moderator: Emily Lindsey
12:30-1:15 Claire Kremen: Land sparing and sharing
Carsten Nowak: Europe
Zhibin Zhang: China
Gerardo Ceballos: Mexico/Latin America
Session 5. Conservation Paleobiology
Session Chair: Cindy Looy
1:15-1:30 Mikael Fortelius. A Common Metric for Assessing Past and Present Biomes
1:30-1:45 Paul Koch. Ecological Networks
1:45-2:00 Michelle Lawing. Ataxic Indicators of Ecosystem Structure and Function
2:00-2:15 Allison Stegner. Paleoecology for Land Management
Session 6. A Role for Ataxic Metrics in Conservation Planning? (Panel Discussion)
Moderator: Anthony Barnosky
2:15-3:00 Chase Mendenhall. Working Landscapes
P. David Polly / Jason Head. Paleobiology
Thomas Hickler. Biodiversity Dynamics
Alexis Mychajliw. Islands
BREAK 3:00 - 3:30
Session 7. Designing Nature
Session Chair: Edward Davis
3:30-3:45 Jessica Hellmann. Managed Relocation
3:45-4:00 Rodolfo Dirzo. Defaunation
4:00-4:15 Uma Ramakrishnan. Is genetic data relevant to species conservation?
4:15-4:30 Melissa Kemp. Island Systems
Session 8. Ecological Baselines for Decision Making (Panel Discussion)
Moderator: Harry Greene
4:30-5:15 Jessica Blois. Ecology and Paleobiology
David Ackerly. Ecology
Jussi Eronen. Paleobiology
5:15-5:30 Closing Remarks. Harry Greene
CLOSED WORKSHOP AGENDA
September 15-16, 2015. Closed session. Details will be emailed to invited participants.
Workshop Delegates
- David Ackerly (Professor of Integrative Biology, Co-Director Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, UC Berkeley)
- Ken Alex (Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the Director of the Office of Planning and Research)
- Anthony Barnosky (Professor of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology. UC Berkeley)
- Eric Biber (Professsor of Law, specialty in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, UC Berkeley Law School)
- Jessica Blois (Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, UC Merced)
- Justin Brashares (Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley)
- Gerardo Ceballos (Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico)
- Edward Davis (Assistant Professor and Curator, University of Oregon)
- Greg Dietl (Director of Collections, Paleontological Research Institution)
- Rodolfo Dirzo (Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Director of Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University)
- Holly Doremus (James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation; Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment; Director, Environmental Law Program)
- Jussi Eronen (Marie Curie Fellow at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Mikael Fortelius (Professor of Evolutionary Palaeontology and Group Leader, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helskinki, Finland)
- Patrick Gonzalez (Principal Climate Change Scientist, US National Park Service)
- Harry Greene (Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Faculty Curator of Herpetology, Cornell University)
- Elizabeth A. Hadly (Paul S. and Billie Achilles Chair of Environmental Biology and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research, Stanford University)
- Jason Head (Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska)
- Jessica Hellmann (Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN)
- Thomas Hickler (Professor of Biogeography, Goethe-University Frankfurt and Head of Data and Modeling Center & Knowledge Transfer and Social-Ecological Dimensions, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Stephen Jackson (Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Southwest Climate Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey and University of Arizona)
- Melissa Kemp (Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University)
- Paul Koch (Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences, UC Santa Cruz)
- Claire Kremen (Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley)
- Michelle Lawing (Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Texas A & M University).
- Emily Lindsey (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley)
- Cindy Looy (Assistant Professor of Paleobotany, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley)
- Charles Marshall (Director, UC Museum of Paleontology and Co-Director, Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, UC Berkeley)
- Chase Mendenhall (Center for Conservation Biology Manager & Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Stanford University)
- Andreas Mulch (Professor of Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironmental Dynamics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Vice-Director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Alexis Mychajliw (Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University)
- Carsten Nowak (Head of Conservation Genetics, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- P. David Polly (Professor of Geological Sciences and Curator of Paleontology, Indiana University)
- Uma Ramakrishnan (Professor, Conservation Genetics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
- Jan Schnitzler (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Kashish Das Shrestha (Advisor to Nepal Parliament and Policy Analyst, Founder and Director of the City Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal)
- Lynn Stegner (Award-winning creative writer, San Francisco; contributor to the anthology West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West)
- M. Allison Stegner (Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley)
- Nils Chr. Stenseth (Professor of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway, and Head of Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Chief Scientist at Norwegian Institute of Marine Research)
- Marvalee Wake (Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley)
- Zhibin Zhang (Professor of Ecology and Past Director of the Institute of Zoology and Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)