AWARDS

• Award to Dr. Laurent Crespin (CASEB Program 2) of Collaborative Research Grant CNRS/CONICYT "Comparative demographic analysis of a community of small mammals by Capture-Mark-Recapture methods" to collaborate with Dr. J.-D. Lebreton (Montpellier, France). 07 January 2003.

• Travel Award to Dr. Brendan Kelaher (CASEB Program 6) to participate in DIALOC V Conference, Bermuda. March 2003.

• Award to Dr. Alvaro Palma (CASEB Program 5) of FA/UDEC/WHOI Faculty Fellowship, to collaborate with Dr. Jesus Pineda (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole). 08 May 2003.

• Award to Dr. Luis Ebensperger (CASEB Program 1) of National Geographic Research Grant No. 7347-02 toward "Geographic variation in the behavioral ecology of Chilean coruros" to collaborate with PI Dr. Eileen A. Lacey (University of California, Berkeley, USA) June 2003.

• Award to Drs. J. C Castilla (PI), J. Correa, P. Marquet, S. Navarrete & M. Fernandez of Collaborative Research Project ECOS/CONICYT CO3-BO4, to conduct research with scientific staff of the Station Biologique de Roscoff (a CNRS Center in France) on "Analysis of marine biogeography discontinuities and transition zones along the Chilean coast: phylogeographic approach". December 2003.

• Award to Dr. Mauricio Lima (CASEB Program 2) of Collaborative Research Grant AGCI 10/00068 "Modeling the demographic and population dynamics of small mammals in semiarid regions of South America and Africa" to collaborate with Dr. Herwig Leirs (University of Antwerp, Belgium). 07 January 2004.

• Award to Dr. Laurent Crespin (CASEB Program 2) of Collaborative Research Grant CNRS/CONICYT "Estimacion de la tasa de cambio polacional de una comunidad de pequenos roedores con datos de Captura-Marcaje-Recaptura" to exchange visits to France and to Chile with Dr. J.-D. Lebreton (Montpellier, France). 05 March 2004.

• Award to Drs. Fabian Jaksic and Pablo Marquet of Grant Nº 7172-CH, Programa Bicentenario de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Chile, to convene the international workshop "Ecological complexity and theories of biodiversity: Neutral, Metabolic and Functional" (Valparaiso and Iquique). October 2005.
  

• Travel Award to Dr. Fabio Labra (CASEB Program 4) to participate in the "Gordon Research Conference: Metabolic Basis of Ecology and Evolution", Bates College, Maine, USA, 9-14 July 2006.
  

• Award to Dr. Pablo Marquet (CASEB Program 4) Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Project. Key problems in macroecology. September 2006.

• Award to Dr. Myriam Valero (general PI), CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France, and to Drs. Sylvain Faugeron (PI), J. Correa, J.C. Castilla, S. Navarrete, S. Gelcich and P. Marquet (All from CASEB) of Project "ECOKELP, Dynamics of kelp forest biodiversity in northern and southern hemispheres: ecological, social and economic aspects", for the period 2007-2010. Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), France. November 2006. 

• Award to Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla (CASEB Program 6) "Premio Fundacion BBVA en Ecologia y Biologia de la Conservacion". April 2007. More ...

• Award to Dr. Juan Correa (CASEB Program 7) and co-authors. Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft. "Publikation des Monats" to article: Weinberger F., Beltran J., Correa J.A., Lion U., Pohnert G., Kumar N., Steinberg P., Kloareg B. & Potin P. (2007): Spore release in Acrochaetium sp. (Rhodophyta) is bacterially controlled. Journal of Phycology 43: 235-241. April 2007. More ...

• Award to Dr. Ernesto Gianoli, Associate Researcher (CASEB Program 1). Prize “Sociedad de Biologia de Chile-BIOS Chile ING. S.A. 2007”. November, 2007. BioNoticias

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was appointed International Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. 2002. Links: Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Prof. Pablo Marquet at SFI.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was appointed member of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 2003. Links: NCEAS SAB-NCEAS

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic was appointed member of the Panel DIVERSITAS-Core Project 3 (Biosustainability, http://www.diversitas-international.org). He attended the first meeting of this Core Project, Paris, January 2003.

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic was appointed member of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS-Core Project 2 (Ecoservices), October 2003.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet participated and co-organized the Workshop "Scaling Biodiversity", Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic. October 2004. Document

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic participated in the meeting of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS-Core Project 3 (Biosustainability), Paris, February 2005.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was the Organizer of the "First field workshop on Ecological Complexity. Ecological Complexity: Approaches, challenges and opportunities for integration". Chile, 3-15 October, 2005. Document.

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic participated in the meeting of the Scientific Committee DIVERSITAS-Core Project 3 (Biosustainability), Stockholm, February 2006.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was Chairman of the "Gordon Research Conference: Metabolic Basis of Ecology and Evolution", Bates College, Maine, USA, 9-14 July 2006. Document.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was appointed Center Fellow of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Santa Barbara, CA, USA., for the period September 2006 to April 2007. August 2006.

• Dr. Pablo Marquet was appointed member of the Science Board of the Instituto SARAS (South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies), Uruguay. July 2007.

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2002. Program

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo-Uruguay, Agosto 2004.

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, CENPAT, CONICET, Puerto Madryn-Chubut, Argentina. November 2004.

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto-Cordoba, Argentina. April 2005.

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo-Uruguay, September-October 2005

• Dr. Patricio Camus was Lecturer of the course “Principios de dinamica poblacional”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica Orienta lde lUruguay, Montevideo-Uruguay, October 2005.

• Dr. Fabio Labra was Lecturer at the IV Escuela de Verano en Sistemas Complejos. Informatica teorica, Ecologia & Ciencias Cognitivas. "Fluctuaciones: escalamiento y universalidad en sistemas complejos". Instituto de Sistemas Complejos. Valparaiso, Chile. January 2006.

• Dr. Mauricio Lima was Professor In Charge of the course “Fluctuaciones poblacionales y clima: Teoria y aplicaciones para entender y predecir los efectos del cambio climatico en las poblaciones naturales". Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina, April 2006. Program

• Dr. Francisco Bozinovic was Professor in Charge of the graduate course "Fisiologia ecologica & Evolutiva. Perspectivas desde la energetica animal". Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. 27-31. March 2006.

• Dr. Patricio Camus is directing a practical training period (September 2006-January 2007) of Ms. Anne-Cecile Dragon, student of Master of Ecology, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, Paris, France. Theme: “Effects of thermal anomalies on the structure and organisation of coastal marine communities in northern Chile”. September 2006.

• Drs. Stefan Gelcich and Juan Carlos Castilla are developing an international post-graduate course named “Joining Ecological and Socio-economic Research: Marine Coastal Conservation and Sustainable Management”. The course will integrate different university faculties of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica (i.e. psychology, sociology, ecology) and faculties (i.e. School of environmental studies, anthropology) from the University of Wales Bangor and University of Kent in order to begin discussing on the importance to treat marine conservation in a multidisciplinary manner. December 2006.

• Dr. Francisco Bozinovic was Professor in Charge of the graduate course "Fisiologia ecologica & evolutiva". Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. 16-20 April 2007.

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic was invited to visit the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu), Santa Barbara, California, USA, June 2002.

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic was invited to visit the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (http://www.ecostudies.org), Millbrook, NY, USA, March 2003.

• International Planning Visit funded by NSF International Programs to Drs. Clive Jones, Holly Ewing, Kathleen Weathers (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook); Todd Dawson (University of California, Berkeley); Juan Armesto and Pablo Marquet (CASEB Programs 3 & 4) to address the issue of "Fog, trees, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity of relict temperate rain forest patches in Fray Jorge National Park, Chile." The planning workshop took place in La Serena. 26 to 30 May 2003

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic and Dr. Francisco Bozinovic, participated in the workshop "Croatia and Chile: Scientific Contact Days", delivering four lectures on: The Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity: a novel initiative in Chile; Interplay between physiological and behavioral ecology: dynamic energy and time budgets; Ecological effects of El Nino in terrestrial ecosystems of western South America; and The Chilean Ecological Society and the web of research centers for advanced studies in ecology in Chile. Zagreb, Croatia, 15-17 September 2003. Program

• Visit of Dr. Fabian Jaksic (Director of CASEB) and Dr. Juan Correa (Deputy Director of CASEB) to France, as part of an official delegation led by Dr. Pedro Rosso (President of the Catholic University of Chile) to: (a) Visit Roscoff Marine Station near Brest, where the LIA Roscoff-CASEB is based; (b) To sign up an agreement with CNRS and University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) on double degree for exchange of doctoral students. 31 May to 06 June 2004. Please see also Report on the creation of an Associate International Laboratory.

• Dr. Fabian Jaksic was invited to visit the Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology  (http://academic.sun.ac.za/cib/), Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 2005.

• Dr. Ivona  Marasovic, Director of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Split-Dubrovnik, Croatia, visited CASEB headquarters in Santiago and took a field trip to Las Cruces Marine Station. 20-21 October 2005.

• Visit of Dr. Fabian Jaksic (Director of CASEB), Dr. Francisco Bozinovic (Head, Department of Ecology) to the Republic of South Africa, Dr. Sergio Castro (ex-doctoral student of CASEB), and Gabriel Lobos (current doctoral student of CASEB ) invited by the Center of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB), Stellenbosch: (a) To set up an academic exchange-agreement between CASEB and CIB for scientists, postdocs, and graduate students. (b) To devise collaborative research on biotic homogenization of mediterranean floras. (c) To design joint research on topics related to the invasion of African species in Chile. 27 August to 3 September 2006.

• Memorandum of Agreement and Cooperation between the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, U.S.A., and the Department of Ecology and the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. We dedicate ourselves to a collaborative effort in biodiversity and conservation providing mutual benefit. 26 August 2002.

• Report on the creation of an Associate International Laboratory between scientists from the Station Biologique de Roscoff (France) and from the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity (CASEB Programs 4, 6 & 7). French researchers in population genetics and molecular ecology will be available for graduate teaching and co-supervision of Ph.D. theses of CASEB students. 03 to 05 March 2003.

• Dr. Juan Correa's Laboratory (CASEB Program 7), became a partner of the European Union-funded initiative under Framework VI ("Networks of Excellence"). The NoE in reference is known by the acronym of "Marine Genomics" and its activities will be funded under the Global Change and Ecosystems area of Framework VI. This NoE includes researchers from Denmark, Greece, Italy, Israel, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. 24 June 2003. Marine Genomics (pdf)

• Collaboration Framework Agreement between The Nature Conservancy and Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology & Biodiversity (Document) December 2004

• Cooperation Agreement between Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Chile, and Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity (CASEB), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. 25 June 2008. Document