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NCEAS Roundtable April 3, 2025
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Marty Downs
Mar 27, 2025, 12:00:36 PMMar 27
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Dear NCEAS Community,
Please join us for our April Roundtable
Thursday, April 3, 2025 @ 3: 30 PM PT
In person (1021 Anacapa Street, 3rd Floor) and on Zoom
with a social hour afterwards, on the terrace
Field Stations, Reserves, and Marine Laboratories: Place-based institutions for questions across scale
Conner S. Philson
Executive Director, UCSB Natural Reserve System
Abstract
Place-based research institutions, such as Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs), are hubs of long-term research across the sciences – from ecology and biology to geology and climate science. Decades of incredibly detailed place-based study have revealed immense detail about the natural world. When combining the data generated at FSMLs with modern analytical power, FSMLs offer a unique and largely untapped opportunity to integrate the new age of ecological analysis and synthesis. The UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) is the largest university run network of FMSLs in the world. Making up 42 FSMLs across the geographic and biodiverse California, the NRS and its 2,500 unique research projects and emerging data products serve as a test case for novel FSMLs-synthesis questions across scale.
Bio
Conner Philson is the Executive Director of the UCSB Natural Reserve System (NRS), a network of seven field stations across California. Conner is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist by training, having studied the evolution of social behavior in wild systems across the globe – from marmots to monkeys and the Americas to the South Pacific. Conner has a PhD from UCLA and a MBA certificate from UCSD. He currently sits on the Board for the Organization of Biological Field Stations and hails from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Executive Director, UCSB Natural Reserve System
Abstract
Place-based research institutions, such as Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs), are hubs of long-term research across the sciences – from ecology and biology to geology and climate science. Decades of incredibly detailed place-based study have revealed immense detail about the natural world. When combining the data generated at FSMLs with modern analytical power, FSMLs offer a unique and largely untapped opportunity to integrate the new age of ecological analysis and synthesis. The UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) is the largest university run network of FMSLs in the world. Making up 42 FSMLs across the geographic and biodiverse California, the NRS and its 2,500 unique research projects and emerging data products serve as a test case for novel FSMLs-synthesis questions across scale.
Bio
Conner Philson is the Executive Director of the UCSB Natural Reserve System (NRS), a network of seven field stations across California. Conner is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist by training, having studied the evolution of social behavior in wild systems across the globe – from marmots to monkeys and the Americas to the South Pacific. Conner has a PhD from UCLA and a MBA certificate from UCSD. He currently sits on the Board for the Organization of Biological Field Stations and hails from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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