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Alberti, Marina. 2008.
Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems.
Springer-Verlag.

Marzluff, J.M.; Shulenberger, E.; Endlicher, W.; Alberti, M.; Bradley, G.; Ryan, C.; ZumBrunnen, C.; Simon, U. (Eds.) 2008.
Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature. Springer-Verlag

• Shandas, V and M. Alberti, 2009. Exploring the role of vegetation fragmentation on aquatic conditions: Linking upland with riparian areas in Puget Sound lowland streams. Landscape and Urban Planning 90: 66-75.
  
  
• Hepinstall, J.A., M. Alberti, J.M., Marzluff. 2008. Predicting land cover change and avian community responses in rapidly urbanizing environments. Landscape Ecology 23:1257-1276.

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Recent UERL Conference Presentations:

• June 2009: Marina Alberti and Lucy Hutyra presented “Detecting Carbon Signatures of Development Patterns across a Gradient of Urbanization: Linking Observations, Models, and Scenarios”at the Urban Research Symposium 2009 on Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda, Marseille, France.
  
  
• June 2009: Lucy Hutyra presented a poster on UERL research at the Workshop on Land Use/Land Cover Change and the Carbon Cycle, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  
  
• April 2009 – Marina Alberti presented Urbanization patterns and carbon fluxes: A coupled human-natural system approach to study process and mechanisms.” at the US-International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) symposium on Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes, Salt Lake City, UT.
  
  
• January 2009: Lucy Hutyra started the new year by traveling to Khon Kaen, Thailand to present "Validation of ecosystem carbon exchange estimates" at a workshop on on monsoon Asia tropical forest dynamics and sustainability.
  
  

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Highlights of 2008

• December 2008: Marina Alberti traveled to Vietnam to bring back her new son and honorary member of the UERL: Matteo Antonio Hoa Binh Alberti.

Matteo brings a new dimension to the lab!

• November 2008: Lucy Hutyra was selected as a DISCCRS Scholar to participate in an intensive iterdisciplinary symposium in the Tonto National Forest outside Phoenix, Arizona during the first week of November. DISCCRS, Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research, brings together graduates across the entire spectrum of natural- and social-science fields relevant to climate change/impacts.
  
  
• October 2008: Michael Strohbach joined the UERL as a visiting scholar for the last half of autumn quarter, arriving October 20 from the Helmoltz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. He completed a pilot carbon-monitoring project during his stay in Seattle, and returned to Leipzig at the end of December.
  


• September 2008: Steven Walters completed his post-doctoral research in the UERL with the Biocomplexity II project, Urban Landscape Patterns: Complex Dynamics and Emergent Properties. He has taken a new position with the University of Washington College of Forest Resources.
  


• July 2008: The pre-proposal for the NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) was approved, and the UERL is moving ahead to prepare a full proposal for a 5-year trans-disciplinary Ph.D. program in "Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptation in Coupled Human-Natural Systems."
  
  
• June 2008: Yan Jiang passed her comprehensive exams and is now a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary PhD program in Urban Design and Planning.
  
  June 2008: Michelle Kondo successfully defended her dissertation and is currently teaching at Seattle University.
  


• June 2008: The UERL received funding for two new projects: (1) a collaboration with King County on an EPA grant: Regulatory effectiveness monitoring for developing rural areas; and (2) a grant from NOAA Fistheries: Human systems modeling and analysis for Puget Sound ecosystem-based management.
  


• May 2008: UERLer Andrew Bjorn was featured in the Seattle Post Intelligencer local front page story on May 1, 2008, No easy access to fresh groceries in many parts of Seattle.
  


• April 2008: After four years of dedicated and brilliant work on the Puget Sound Futures Scenarios Project--where, among her many accomplishments, she created graphics, developed websites, built databases, ran workshops, conducted interviews, and co-produced the draft for the final report--Michal Russo has left us for a a new career in Boston at the landscape architecture firm, Sasaki. We miss her, and congratulate her on her new beginnings.
  


• January 2008: Sue Letsinger joined the lab on January 1, 2008 to help with administrative work in the UERL and to assist the lab director, Marina Alberti, with her various other roles. Sue has been working in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning for the past four years, and just before her current work with the UERL was Assistant to the Chair of Urban Design and Planning.
  
  
• January 2008: The year started out with the January release of two new books published by Springer-Verlag: Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems by Marina Alberti, and Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, edited by J.M. Marzluff, E. Shulenberger, W. Endlicher, M. Alberti, G. Bradley, C. Ryan, C. ZumBrunnen, and U. Simon.
  
  
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