CURRICULUM VITAE FOR NEO D. MARTINEZ

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• Education
• Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards
• Academic Positions
• Co-authored and Sole-authored Proposals
• Publications
• Invited Talks and Seminars
• Collaborating Scientists and Advisors

 Updated 1/04

Current Positions:

Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Affiliated Faculty at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group

Address:

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab
8000 Gothic Road
P.O. Box 519  Phone: 970-349-5336
Crested Butte, CO 81224    Fax: 970-349-7481

Education:
Biology with a concentration in Ecology B.S. 1984
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Oceanography and Limnology M.S. 1988
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Energy and Resources M.S. 1989 Ph.D. 1991
University of California at Berkeley

Dean's list, Honors Society ,Cornell University
Advanced Opportunity Fellowships, University of Wisconsin
Graduate Minority Fellowships, University of California
Graduate Opportunity Fellowships ,University of California
American Geophysical Union Scholar ,1988
American Geological Institute Minority Scholar, 1988
NSF Minority Graduate Student Travel Award ,1991
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities ,1992
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Minorities , 1993-1995
Interviewed Biodiversity Faculty Candidate. Zoology Dept.  Oxford University, UK 1999
Keynote speaker at the Annual New Zealand Ecological Society meeting 2000
Visiting Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at Cornell University 2002-2003.
Keynote speaker at the Annual Biological Society of Chile meeting 2003
Plenary address for the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems 2004
Plenary address to the Annual Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on the Life Sciences held jointly with the SIAM Annual Meeting 2004

Academic Positions:
Research Assistant (supported by MacArthur Foundation), University of California
International Security and the Global Environment Fall 1985-Spring 1987
Staff Computer Specialist (purchase, design, installation of networks, computers, and software)
University of California, Energy and Resources Group Summer 1987-Fall 1988
Research Assistant (supported by National Science Foundation), University of California
A Critical Re-examination of Food Web Patterns in Real Ecosystems Summer and Fall 1988
Research Assistant (supported by National Institutes of Health) University of California
Toxicity & Transport of Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems Dec. 1989 - Dec. 1991
Instructor Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
Introduction to Construction Technology Spring 1990 - Fall 1991
Senior Research Associate (supported by National Inst. of Health) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Toxicity & Transport of Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems January-March 1992
Visiting Scientist at U.K. Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) Imperial College at Silwood Park
Centre for Population Biology Annual visits 1992-1996, 2001
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow / Postgraduate Researcher V University of California, Davis
Bodega Marine Laboratory May 1992 - December 1992
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Fellow University of California, Davis
Bodega Marine Laboratory January 1993 -1996
Principal Investigator Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Gothic, Colorado Summer 1993 - present
Assistant Professor of Biology San Francisco State University
Romberg Tiburon Center August 1996 - 2002
Affiliated Faculty, Energy and Resources Group
University of California at Berkeley, 1997 - present 
Visiting Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics, Center for Applied Mathematics
Cornell University 2002-2003.
Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab,
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic Colorado.  2003-present

Co-authored and Sole-authored Proposals:

A Critical Re-examination of Food Web Patterns in Real Ecosystems.
This proposal, initiated by Martinez and co-authored with George Sugihara, was based on Martinez' dissertation project. The primary objectives included developing empirical standards for food webs while assembling state-of-the-art data on trophic interactions among a relatively large fraction of biodiversity in Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin. Another primary objective included testing food web theory against these highly speciose and relatively evenly resolved data. Initially received $47,000 and 6 months funding from National Science Foundation (Grant BSR88-07404). Additional 2 years funding and $100,000 received for construction and analysis of the Little Rock Lake food web. PI: George Sugihara.

Toxicity and Transport of Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems.
The food web component of this project was funded by a subproject proposal that was written by Martinez. The primary objectives included analyzing food webs for their potential to bioaccumulate contaminants. A major finding was that food chains are much longer and bioaccumulation potential is much higher than typically appreciated. Project was funded with initial $150,000 annual budget and 6 years funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (PHS Grant P42 ES 0470). Co-Principal Investigators: Susan Anderson and John Harte.

NSF Minority Postdoctoral Travel Award
Funded $3000 for travel to the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in San Antonio, Texas, and travel to the Centre of Population Biology in the U.K. to collaborate with the Centre's Director, J.H. Lawton . NSF Grant No. DIR-9120696

Food Webs and their Relation to Species Diversity and Abundance
The Ford Foundation Fellowship for Minorities supported ($30,000) preliminary analyses of the food webs of Mirror Lake, New Hampshire and the East River in Colorado. This research aims to evaluate the binary food web structure of these systems and to examine how the diversity and abundance of species is distributed among trophic niches defined by the food web. The National Science Foundation granted an additional $105,000 to complete this research over 3 years (NSF Grant No: BIR-9207426). PI: Neo Martinez.

Lake Food Webs: Properties and Artifacts
The proposal for this grant was initiated by Martinez and co-authored with Heath Carney. The research plan is similar to that for Little Rock Lake with the addition of constructing food webs including only biomass dominants and comparing such webs with more diverse versions that include many more rare species. The project was funded $177,666 for construction and analysis of four food webs from Lake Tahoe, Castle Lake, and Clear Lake in California and Mirror Lake in New Hampshire (NSF Grant DEB-92-8122). PI: Charles Goldman

Biomolecular Analyses of Microscopic Trophic Interactions
This Small Grant for Exploratory Research project is funded by the NSF Grant No. DEB-9421427 (10/1/94-9/30/95) for developing quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) based techniques to estimate population sizes of Escherichia coli strains in the gut of a micrometazoan bactivorous nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. This project is ongoing with the hopes of using current Perkin-Elmer QPCR that quantitates PCR-products based on electrochemiluminescent tags as opposed to radioactive tags. We anticipate that successful development will pave the way to highly automated DNA-based population and biomass estimates of any species in an environment where DNA can be extracted from. Budget: $45,000. Co-Principal Investigators: Neo Martinez and Mike Banks.

Null and Natural Food Webs:  A Critical Investigation of Biological and Methodological Explanations for Food-web Structure.
Food-web theory is undergoing a paradigmatic shift from scale-invariant patterns in food webs to constant connectance and scale-dependent patterns.  This project will clarify the currently undetermined biological significance of the shift by rigorously and systematically comparing empirically observed food web patterns with patterns generated by null and mechanistic models.  NSF Grant 693787  PI: Martinez.  Funded at $35k.

Instructional Environmental Science Computer Lab.
Our project procures equipment and supports personnel to create and use new curricula in an up-to-date Instructional Environmental Science Computer Lab.   New curricula being implemented includes specific leaning modules integrating MatLab and Web3D.  Combined with current RTC equipment, this support provides RTC with a modern computer lab with 9 computers plus essential peripherals.  $60,000 from NSF with $72,630 match from SFSU.  Total:  $132,630 NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Grant 9950461  PI: Martinez.  Co-PI's: Patricia Foschi and Toby Garfield

Effects of biodiversity loss on complex communities:  A web-based combinatorial approach.  2-year NSF Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Research Grant for Jennifer Dunne based in Martinez’ lab. Includes residence at the Santa Fe Institute and collaboration with Shahid Naeem and the University of Washington.  NSF Grant DEB/DBI-0074521 10/1/00-9/20/02).  Authors: Dunne, Martinez, and Rich Williams.  PI:  Jennifer Dunne.  Funded at $100k.

Scaling of Network Complexity with Diversity in Food Webs. 2-year NSF Biocomplexity Incubation Grant Number DEB-0083929 (9-15-00 to 8-31-02).  PI: Martinez.  Co-PI:  Laszlo Barabasi.  Funded at $100k.

Trophic and Community Dynamics in the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem. The Trophic Dynamics Prospectus and the Community Dynamics Prospectus for the Sierra Nevada Monitoring Team.  The prospectuses are part of the Ecosystem Process Conceptual Model that was developed for the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management strategy.   $8k funded by the Sierra Nevada Monitoring Team of the US Forest Service.  PI: Martinez.  Co-PI: Eric L. Berlow

Webs on the Web:  Internet Database, Analysis, and Visualization of Ecological Networks.  Supported by the Packard Foundation ($3k) and Intel ($8k) via the Santa Fe Institute’s  “Robustness” and “Network Dynamics” programs, respectively.  April 18-20, 2002 Santa Fe Institute workshop was funded that brought experts in ecological, physical, metabolic, and social networks to plan a full project recently funded by NSF. PI: Martinez.  Co-PI’s Dunne and Williams.

BDI: Webs on the Web: Internet Database, Analysis and Visualization of Ecological Networks. 3 year grant from NSF’s Biological Databases and Informatics program.  Funded $1,520k (including $76k match from San Francisco State University) from 2-1-03 to 1-31-06.   This project will establish an Internet database of food webs, which describe the trophic structure and function of ecological networks, combined with analytical tools that will increase the ability of scientists and students to exchange and analyze information about ecological networks. PI: Martinez (Rocky Mountain Biological Lab), Co-PI’s: Jennifer Dunne (Santa Fe Institute), Matt Jones (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis), Rich Williams (Rocky Mountain Biological Lab) and Ilmi Yoon (San Francisco State University).

Science on the Semantic Web: Prototypes in Bioinformatics.  5-year NSF grant from the Information Technology Research program.  Funded $2,350k from 9-1-03 to 8-31-08 to develop a framework for conducting science research and education on the semantic web, and will implement and evaluate prototype tools and applications for use in the biocomplexity and biodiversity domains. PI: Tim Finin (U. of MD, Baltimore).  Co-PI’s: Jim Hendler (University of Maryland at College Park), Neo Martinez (Rocky Mountain Biological Lab), Jim Quinn (University of California at Davis), John Schnase (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). 

Publications and Theses:

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1991

Martinez, N.D. 1991. Effects of Scale on Food Web Structure. Dissertation. Energy and Resources Group.  University of California at Berkeley.

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1993

Martinez, N.D. 1993. Effect of scale on food web structure . Science 260:242-243.

Martinez, N.D. 1993. Effect of scale on food web structure. (retraction of editorial error) Science 260:1412.

Martinez, N.D. 1993. Effects of resolution on food web structure (Large 4MB File) Oikos 66:403-412.

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Martinez, N.D. and J.H. Lawton. 1995. Scale and food-web structure--from local to global. Oikos 73:148-154.

1996

Martinez, N.D. 1996. Defining and measuring functional aspects of biodiversity . (Very Large 13MB File) Pages 114-148 In Biodiversity: A Science of Numbers and Difference. K. J. Gaston, ed. Blackwell Scientific.

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Holt, R. D., J. H. Lawton, G. A. Polis and N. D. Martinez.  1999.  Trophic rank and the species-area relation.   Ecology 80:1495-1504.

    2000

Memmott, J., N. D. Martinez and J. E. Cohen.  2000. Predators, parasites and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality, and body sizes in a natural food web . Journal of Animal Ecology 69:1-15.

Willliams, R. J. and N. D. Martinez . 2000.  Simple rules yield complex food webs .  Nature 404:180-183.

    2001

Williams, R. J., N. D. Martinez, E. L. Berlow, J. A. Dunne, and A-L Barabási. 2001. Two degrees of separation in complex food webs . Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 01-07-036. 

Williams, R. J. and N. D. Martinez. 2001 Stabilization of chaotic and non-permanent food web dynamics . Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 01-07-37. 

    2002

Dunne, J.A, R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez .  2002. Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance .  Ecology Letters 5:558-567.  Also, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-03-013. 

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez .  2002.  Food-web structure and network theory: the role of connectance and size .  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 99:12917-12922.  Also, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-03-010

Williams, R. J., E. L. Berlow, J. A. Dunne, A-L Barabási. and N. D. Martinez, 2002. Two degrees of separation in complex food webs . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12913-12916.

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez. 2002. Trophic levels in complex food webs: Theory and data .  Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-10-056.

    2003

Brose, U., N.D. Martinez, and R.J. Williams. 2003.  Estimating species richness: Sensitivity to sample coverage and insensitivity to spatial patterns.  Ecology. 84:2364-2377.

Brose, U., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2003. Comment on "Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability.   (Originally accepted titled: The Niche model recovers the negative complexity-stability relationship effect in adaptive food webs.) Science 301:(918b-918c).

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2003. Network structure and robustness of marine food webs. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 03-04-024.

    2004

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez. 2004. Limits to trophic levels and omnivory in complex food webs: theory and data.  American Naturalist.  163:458-468.  Also  Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-10-056

Brose, U., and N.D. Martinez.  2004.  Estimating the richness of species with variable mobility. Oikos. 105:292-300.

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Invited Talks and Seminars:

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Martinez, N.D.  Food webs: Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity.  Faculty candidate presentation.  Zoology Department, Oxford University, UK.
Martinez, N.D.  Food webs: Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity.  Fisheries and Wildlife Departmental Seminnar.  Texas A&M, College Station TX.
Martinez, N.D. Grant Writing in the Sciences.  Panel Presentation.  Ford Fellows Conference National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
Piechnik*, D. A., and N. D. Martinez.  Increase of Specialists with Time in a Classic Biogeographic Study.  Contributed Talk.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Martinez, N. D. and R. J. Williams. Simplicity within Complexity:  a simple model successfully predicts food-web complexity. Published Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.

        2000

Martinez, N. D. and R. J. Williams. Simplicity within Complexity: a simple model successfully predicts food-web complexity. Poster and Abstract, Joint meeting of the British Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of America.  Orlando, FL.
Martinez, N. D. Food webs: Integrating Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity.  March 3, 2000 SFSU Biology Department Seminar in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Martinez, N. D.  Simplicity amongst Complexity:  Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  Seminar within the Summer Seminar Series of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Martinez, N. D. Simplicity amongst Complexity: Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  Seminar within the Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series of the University of California at Davis to be given October 26, 2000.
Martinez, N. D. Studying and managing complex food webs: advances in research and plans for application.  Invited Keynote address to the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of New Zealand given November 20, 2000.
Martinez, N. D. Simplicity amongst Complexity:  Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  Invited Seminar at the Landcare Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand given November 23, 2000.

        2001

Martinez, N. D.  Complex Food Webs: From Scale-Invariant Statistics To Scale-Dependent Mechanisms. Santa Fe Institute Colloquium Talk February 12. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Martinez, N. D. Complex Food Webs: From Scale-Invariant Statistics To Scale-Dependent Mechanisms. University of New Mexico Bio. Dept. seminar February 14.  Albuquerque.
Martinez, N. D.  Complexity and simplicity in large, diverse food webs.  March 7, 2001 Romberg Tiburon Center Seminar, San Francisco State University.
Martinez, N. D.  Invited Presenter to the “Networking the ‘Invisible Colleges’: Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity.” An NSF-Sponsored Biocomplexity Workshop Hosted by: Jeff Johnson, Joe Luczkovich, Bob Christian, East Carolina University and Steve Borgatti, Boston College. March 21-24, 2001, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC.
Martinez, N. D. Invited to the Cary Conference IX Understanding Ecosystems: The Role of Quantitative Models in Observation, Synthesis & Prediction.  May 1-3, 2001 at the Cary Arboretum in Milbrook, New York.
Martinez, N. D. Simplicity amongst Complexity: Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  May 23, 2001 Seminar at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution at Université Montpellier, France.
Martinez, N. D. Simplicity amongst Complexity: Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  May 31, 2001 Zoology Departmental Seminar, Oxford University, UK.
Martinez, N. D. Simplicity amongst Complexity: Models and Mechanisms underlying complex food webs.  June 1, 2001 Seminar, Centre for Population Biology, Silwood Park, Imperial College, UK.
Martinez, N. D.  Natural Interaction Networks: Large Complex Food Webs.  Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in Phoenix, Arizona September 28, 2001.
Martinez, N. D. Construction and methodology of food webs: Measurement and Meaning of Trophic Interactions.  Smithsonian Paleobiology Departmental Seminar presented Oct 15, 2001.
Martinez, N. D., Jennifer A. Dunne, Albert-Lazlo Barabasi, Richard J. Williams, and Eric L. Berlow.  Scaling of Complexity with Diversity. Poster presented at that the National Science Foundation Biocomplexity PI Meeting (All NSF Biocomplexity Awardees invited) Oct 16, 2001 at NSF Headquarters Ballston, Virginia.

        2002

Invited Biology Department Seminar at the University of Arizona at Tuscon Feb. 11. “Structure and Dynamics of Ecological Networks: New Connections in Food-web Research” Neo Martinez (presenter) and R.J. Williams.
Invited presentation to Undergraduate Conservation Biology Interns meeting.  Opportunities and Dangers of Scientifically Informed Policy.  March Feb 11. Neo Martinez.
Invited Departmental Seminar March 6 at UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution "New Directions in Ecological Complexity: Structure and Dynamics of Food-web Networks"  Neo Martinez (presenter) and R.J. Williams.
Invited presentation to UCLA Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) students March 7. Exploring Ecological Complexity. Neo Martinez.
Invited talk at the International Workshop on ‘Trophic Interactions in a Changing World’ Netherlands to be held April 3-7, 2002.
Two presentations at Distribution, Diversity, and Evolutionary Dynamics meeting June 13-16 at University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
1.  Martinez, N. D. (presented invited talk), R. J. Williams, J. A. Dunne.  Network structure and robustness of complex food webs.
2.  Williams, R. J. (presented contributed talk) and N. D. Martinez.  Non-linear network dynamics and stability of complex food webs.
Three Presentations at Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting August in Tucson, AZ.
1.  Martinez Neo D. (presented talk) and Richard J. Williams. Biological mechanisms responsible for the network structure of food webs.
2.  Dunne, Jennifer A. (presented talk), Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez. Network topology and species loss in food webs: Robustness increases with connectance.
3. Vaccaro*, Erin C., Cedric O. Puleston* (presented poster), Neo D. Martinez, and Richard J. Williams. Sensitivity and success of the Niche Model at predicting the network structure of extremely large food webs.
Martinez, Neo D., Richard J. Williams and Jennifer A. Dunne. Exploring Ecological Networks:  Interdependency, Robustness and the Complexity of Nature. UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Colloquium.  September 25.
SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) Annual Meeting September 26-29 in Anaheim, CA. "Community:  A Catalyst for Science"  Martinez mentored in the "Conversations with Scientists" session.
Annual Ford Fellows Conference (Oct 3-5) in Albuquerque, NM "Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Scholarship in a Global Society."   Neo Martinez presented at a Special Interest Session on Grantsmanship.  Moderator: J.V. Martinez,  Participants: Neo Martinez, Claire Cornell.
 Annual NSF Minority Fellows and Mentors Meeting, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA  22230 October 17-18, 2002.  Neo Martinez presented "Ecological Networks and Beyond."
Science on the Semantic Web: Building the Next Generation of Environmental Information Systems.  Rutgers University, October 24-25. Neo Martinez presented “Webs of the Web: Internet Database, Analysis, and Visualization of Ecological Networks” by Neo Martinez, Rich J. Williams and Ilmi Yoon.

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UC Berkeley Ecolunch Feb. 3.  “Webs of the Web: Internet Database, Analysis, and Visualization of Ecological Networks” by Neo Martinez, Rich J. Williams and Ilmi Yoon.
Invited symposium talk for Annual Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.  Food-web Theory Applies to Marine Ecosystems.  J. A. Dunne (presenter), N.D. Martinez and R.J. Williams.  Feb 10 Macroecology in Marine Ecosystems Symposium.
Presentation on the Structure and Dynamics of Ecological  Networks, Advanced Network Seminar.  Cornell University February 14.
Invited talk for the Jugatae Seminar Series of the Cornell University Department of Entomology. Feb 17.  “Exploring the trophic complexity of aquatic and other insects.”  Neo Martinez.
Presentation on the Structure and Dynamics of Ecological  Networks, Biology Departmental Seminar, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Feb 25..
Invited symposium talk for the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (Austin, Texas).  Simple Rules Yield Complex Food Webs.  N. D. Martinez (presenter), R. J. Williams and J. A. Dunne.  March 5 in Statistical Physics of Food Webs Symposium.
How does nature keep it all together? Integrating Structure and Nonlinear Dynamics in Large Complex Food Webs.  Host: Kevin McCann.  Biology Department Seminar. McGill University, Motreal Canada. March 13.
Presentation on the Structure and Dynamics of Ecological  Networks, Ellner Lab mtg.  Cornell University April 3
Structure and Dynamics of Ecological  Networks, "Bill Sear's Talk" Center for Applied Mathematics.  Cornell University April 21.
Presentation on Construction and Analysis of  Food Webs at the Paleofoodweb Workshop, Santa Fe Institute  April 24.
Structure of Ecological Networks, Tropical Biology Deparmental Seminar.  James Cook University. Townsville, Australia.  May 20
Dynamics of Ecological Networks, Tropical Biology Deparmental Seminar.  James Cook University. Townsville, Australia.  May 27
Structure and Dynamics of Ecological  Networks,  Key Centre Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.  May 30.
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado Summer Seminar Series.  July 8. "Webs in Space: The structure and dynamics of spatially explicit food webs" Martinez, N.D. (presenter), U. Brose, A. Ostling*, L. Buckley*, E. Gracia*, D. Ignace*, E.L. Mudrak*.
The structure and nonlinear robustness of complex food webs InterACT workshop "Community viability analysis: Identifying fragile systems and keystone species”  Linkopin, Sweden. August 14
Complex Ecological Networks.  presentation at Coevolution and self-organization in Dynamical Netoworks Midterm Conference on Growing Networks and Graphs in Statistical Physics, Finance, Biology and Social Systems.  University of Rome, Rome Italy.  September 4. 
Conversations with Scientists Participant.  Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.  Albuquerque, New Mexico.  October 2.
Lecture Series on the Structure and Nonlinear Dynamics of Ecological Networks in the graduate course "Complex Nonlinear Systems" Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 678.  Cornell University. Ithaca, NY October 15, 20,.22, and 27.
What's new in food webs? Network structure, nonlinear dynamics and the robustness of ecological networks.  Departamento de Ecologia Seminar.   Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.  Santiago Chile. November 6.
The structure and nonlinear robustness of complex food webs.  Plenary Address.  Annual meeting of the Biological Society of Chile.  Puyehue, Chile .  November 12.
The structure and nonlinear robustness of complex food webs.  European International Food-web Symposium.  Giessen Germany.  November 15.

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Collaborating Scientists and Advisors:

Postdoctoral Fellowship Sponsors (University of California, Davis) Donald R. Strong
(Imperial College Centre for Population Biology) John H. Lawton
Ph.D. Committee Members (University of California, Berkeley):
John Harte (Chair), Mary E. Power, Richard B. Norgaard,* Thomas W. Schoener.
M.S. Committee Members (University of Wisconsin, Madison):
John J. Magnuson (Chair), Timothy F.H. Allen.
Other Collaborating Scientists and Advisors Not Among Coauthors: Eric Berlow, Dieter Ebert, C.R. Goldman, Dieter Ebert B.L. Peckarsky, D.L. Strayer.
Postdoctoral Researchers:  Rich Williams, Jennifer Dunne , Ulrich Brose
Graduate Student Advisees:  Brian Feifarek, Dan Landy, Tanya Fairclough, Lelena Avila, Paola Bouley, Denise Piechnik, Kateri Harrison (MS 2003), Brett Harvey, Ulises Ricoy, Cedric Puleston (MS 2003), Erin O'Leary (MS 2003), 

Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals for:
Narure, Science, Ecological Monographs, American Naturalist, Ecology, Oikos, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, etc., various books, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada.

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