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	Dr. Thomas J. Stohlgren,U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado State University, CO Triage in Conservation: How I’m Trying to Save the World Species Distribution Modeling and Ecological Forecasting
	Dr. James Estes, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Apex predators and the tapestry of nature Sea otters and kelp forests: an ecological history of the North Pacific Ocean
	Joshua Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, January 16-17, 2013 Soil: It controls most everything from the planet's climate to voting maps The biogeochemistry of drought
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	Dr. J. Morgan Grove, USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD, November 14-15, 2012 Building a Long Term Social-Ecological Research Platform and Program: The Baltimore Experience. Dynamic Linkages between Decision Making and Science: Five Cycles in Baltimore from Urban Riparian Function to Social Networks and Marketing.
	Dr. Erle Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 10-11, 2012 Ecology in the Anthropocene: Sustaining the Human Biosphere Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
	Dr. Jon Bakker, University of Washington, Seattle, September 12-13, 2012 Trees, Cows, Grass: Insights from Two Continents Prairies? Near Seattle?? The History and Restoration of a Neglected Ecosystem