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Agenda
Monday, February 27
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Welcome Address
Katherine McCarter, Ecological Society of America
Steward Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
8:15 AM – 8:45 AM Introduction
Conservation and global change: Setting the stage for a new paradigm
Bernd Blossey, Cornell University
Dov Sax, Brown University
Laura Martin, Cornell University
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM Symposium I
Protected Areas: Fostering Museums, Way Stations, and Endpoints
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM Break
8:45 AM Intervention, protection and restoration:
Are we guardians or gardeners?
Richard Hobbs, University of Western Australia
9:15 AM Is history “just history”? Uses of the ecological past
for global-change risk assessment
Stephen Jackson, University of Wyoming
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Symposium I continued
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
10:15 AM Landscape corridors for a changing world
Nick Haddad, North Carolina State University
10:45 AM Marine reserve networks: Are they pre-adapted
for a changing climate?
Steve Gaines, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:15 AM Discussion
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Symposium II
Preventing Extinctions: Balancing Tradeoffs
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Break
1:00 PM Government adaptation planning for wildlife
Mark Shaffer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1:30 PM Structured decision making and the management
of endangered species
Michael Runge, U.S. Geological Survey
2:00 PM Finding hope for conservation and endangered species
because we must
Ronald Swaisgood, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
10 Developing Ecologically-Based Conservation Targets Under Global Change