Presentations by AB Scientists
Presentations and Lectures
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give three
presentations at the Seminar on Critical Habitat and Population Viability
Analysis for Species at Risk in British Columbia, organized by the B.C.
Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Biodiversity Branch, Terrestrial
Ecosystem Science Section. Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2003.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk at the
International Association of Landscape Ecology - US Regional Association's 18th
Annual Symposium. Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 2003.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a presentation at
Red Lists, Priority Species and National Conservation Action Plans, a
workshop organized by the Turkish Bird Research Society, Ankara, March 2003.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a keynote
presentation at Critical habitat for recovery: deciding how much is
enough, a workshop organized by the Federal Interdepartmental Critical
Habitat Working Group. 9-11 December 2002. Ottawa, Canada.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a keynote
presentation at Quantitative methods for determining critical habitat for
aquatic species-at-risk, a workshop organized by DFO Canada. 3-6 December,
2002. Montréal, Canada.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk on
Incorporating temporal and spatial variability in population models at
the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, October 2002
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a lecture on
Quantitative methods in environmental impact assessment and wildlife
management at Istanbul University, Turkey, October 2002
- Ferson, S., L. Ginzburg, V. Kreinovich and J. Lopez. 2002.
Extending interval arithmetic to distribution means. Validated Computing 2002,
Toronto, Ontario
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk at
Conference on Fire and Wildlife Habitat, organized by the Tropical
Savannas Cooperative Research Centre and Key Centre for Tropical Wildlife
Management, Darwin, Australia, July 2002
- H. Resit Akçakaya gave a talk on Linking landscape
and metapopulation models: sharp-tailed grouse in a dynamic landscape at
the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Canterbury,
UK, July 2002.
- Ferson, S., L. Ginzburg, V. Kreinovich and M. Aviles. 2002.
Exact bounds on variance of interval data. Validated Computing 2002, Toronto,
Ontario
- H. Resit Akçakaya gave a presentation on Least Tern
Metapopulation Dynamics at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation
Biology, in Hilo, HI, in August 2001.
- Karen V. Root gave a presentation on evaluating the viability
and potential recovery options for the Florida Panther at the Annual Meeting
for the Ecological Society of America, Madison, WI, in August
2001.
- Karen V. Root gave a talk on a multispecies approach to
endangered species conservation and management in South Florida at the Annual
Meeting for the Society for Conservation Biology, Hilo, HA, in July
2001.
- Ferson, S., H.M. Regan and D.S. Myers. 2001. Reconstructing
scattergram data from regression statistics. Society for Risk Analysis annual
meeting, Seattle, Washington
- Ferson, S. and D.S. Myers 2001. Distribution-free risk analysis
using only range, mean and variance. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting,
Seattle, Washington
- Ferson, S. 2001. Variability and incertitude have to be treated
separately, and differently. Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
- Karen V. Root was invited to give a presentation on
habitat-based viability analysis using RAMAS GIS at the Annual Meeting for The
Wildlife Society, Nashville, TN, in September 2000.
- Karen V. Root was invited to give a talk on ecological risk
analysis for the Shortnose Sturgeon populations in the Connecticut River at the
Annual Meeting for the American Fisheries Society, St. Louis, MO, in August
2000.
- H. Resit Akçakaya gave a presentation on linking
landscape and metapopulation models at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Conservation Biology, in Missoula, MT, in June 2000.
- Karen V. Root gave a talk on proactive prioritization through
risk classification of abundant species at the Annual Meeting for the Society
for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT, in June 2000.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk at the
Annual Conference on Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Toxicology and Risk
Assessment Approaches in the 21st Century, held in Cincinnati, OH in April
2000.
- Karen V. Root gave a presentation on a multispecies approach
to ecological assessment and conservation at the meeting of Ecological Society
of America, Orlando, FL, in April 2000.
- Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. 2000. Small chances and
fat chances: setting the context for probabilistic analysis of a food-web
model. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Arlington,
Virginia
- Myers, D.S. 2000. Distribution-free methods for bounding
distributional tails without Monte Carlo. Society for Risk Analysis annual
meeting, Arlington, Virginia
- Ferson, S. and D.R.J. Moore 2000. Bounding uncertainty
analysis. Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry annual meeting,
Nashville, Tennessee
- H. Resit Akçakaya organized a symposium titled
Microcomputer Applications in Population Modeling and Viability Analysis, at
the 4th Microcomputer Applications in Fish and Wildlife Conference, held in
Stateline, Nevada in October 1999.
- Karen V. Root gave a presentation on evaluating the effects of
fragmentation and raven predation on a desert tortoise metapopulation at the
Annual Meeting for the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA, in August
1999.
- H. Resit Akçakaya gave a presentation on incorporating
uncertainties in threatened species assessments at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Conservation Biology, in College park, MD in June
1999.
- Karen V. Root gave a talk on a multispecies approach to
ecological valuation and landscape management at the Annual Meeting for the
Society for Conservation Biology, College Park, MD, June 1999.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk on Recent
advances in conservation biology at the Middle East Technical University in
Ankara, Turkey in May 1999.
- H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk at the
International Workshop on Risk Assessment of Threatened Species, held in Tokyo,
Japan in January 1999.
- Ferson, S. 1999. Probabilistic screening assessment of
ecological risks. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia
- Butcher, M., T. Barry and S. Ferson 1999. Can we know the
iceberg from its tip? Censored distributions in risk assessment. Society for
Risk Analysis annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
- Myers, D.S., S. Ferson 1999. How to satisfy multiple
constraints on cleanup goals in a probabilistic assessment. Society for Risk
Analysis annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
- Butcher, M. and S. Ferson 1999. What to do with model
uncertainty. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia
- Ferson, S., D.S. Myers, M. Butcher. 1999. Cleanup goals in a
probabilistic assessment. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a talk at the
symposium Setting conservation priorities: decisions with uncertain
data, organized by Mark Burgman for the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society
for Conservation Biology. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in July
1998.
- A workshop on Tools for Population Viability Analysis is
organized by Resit Akçakaya at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society
for Conservation Biology. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in July
1998.
- Resit Akçakaya was invited to give a keynote address at
a workshop on Landscape Management of Pacific Northwest Forests: Exploring
Practical Tools for Managers, organized by the Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tyee Hotel,
Olympia, Washington in February 1998.
- Ferson, S. and L.R. Ginzburg. 1998. Why humans are so bad at
interpreting probabilities. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Phoenix,
Arizona
- Ferson, S. 1998. Uncertainty analysis via Monte Carlo: does it
deliver what it promises? Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Phoenix,
Arizona
- Cooper, J.A, S. Ferson, D.K. Cooper. 1998. Constrained
mathematics and the repeated variable problem. Society for Risk Analysis annual
meeting, Phoenix, Arizona
- Ferson, S. Beyond Point
Estimates: Risk assessment using interval, fuzzy and probabilistic
arithmetic. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Capital Hilton,
Washington, DC, in December 1997.
- Resit Akçakaya was invited by the Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency to participate in a workshop on The Use of Population
Viability Analyses in Conservation Planning. He gave two talks, on
"Population Viability Analysis and Risk Assessment", and "Use of age-based and
stage-based demographic models".
City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden in December 1997. - Ferson, S. 1997. Reliable computation of probabilities at the
High Consequence Operations Safety Symposium, Sandia National Laboratory,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Ferson, S. 1997. Why Laplace was wrong: using copulas to bound
convolutions when marginals are known. Institute for Operations research and
the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Dallas, Texas
- Ferson, S. 1997. Total exposure does not equal average daily
exposure times days exposed. Society for Environmental Chemistry and
Toxicology, San Francisco
- Spencer, M. and S. Ferson. 1997. Combining toxicant kinetics,
population dynamics and trophic interactions. Society for Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry, San Francisco, California
- Ferson, S. 1997. Reliable probabilities when sample sizes are
small and the model is uncertain. Society for Risk Analysis, Washington,
DC
- Ferson, S. and D.R.J. Moore. 1997. Six methods to use when
information is limited (as it always is) at the Society for Risk Analysis,
Washington, DC
- Donald, S. and S. Ferson. 1997. Quality assurance for an
environmental risk assessment. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC
