Different ways to get ecological transients — including "ghost attractors" & "crawl-bys" — and why they aren't always obvious, or why you might have to keep kicking the system to maintain balance. SFI External Prof Alan Hastings (UC Davis), streaming now: youtube.com/watch?v=HEuxrt…

🪸🎣 Implications for wildlife/ecosystem management. SFI External Prof Alan Hastings (@UCDavis), streaming now: youtube.com/watch?v=HEuxrt… #Salmon #Fishing #GreatBarrierReef #Ecology

"The way stochasticity is often modeled is not a good approach for ecological systems." Alan Hastings: youtube.com/watch?v=HEuxrt… "A typology of time-scale mismatches and behavioral interventions to diagnose and solve conservation problems" in Conservation Biology: pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70…

Small but good group for a lab alumni dinner at CSEE-ESA.

Thoughts (advice) about short talks at scientific meetings. 1 - less is more - do not put in as much as possible. 2 - Getting your enthusiasm across is really important 3 - Convince all that your question is really good, and provide an answer! That’s all.

Congratulations to soon to be Dr. Evan Johnson - he has turned in his signed thesis! Great piece of work that has already produced papers in top journals!

Coming back to US from ESA- immigration officer at next booth: did you say Davis? Are you an Aggie? Me:yes. Officer: my uncle was dean of engineering. I did know his uncle. Yes, immigration officers can be people too. Made my day.

I was really impressed at CSEE-ESA 2022 how well everyone was wearing a properly fitting N95 mask. Made me much more comfortable.

The prolonged & intense heatwave across CA/NV that is already starting to build will peak over Labor Day weekend. Numerous daily record high temperatures (and some monthly Sep records) are likely; if ECMWF ensemble is right, even a few all-time records could fall (!). #CAwx

Interdisciplinary scientific theory is crucial for addressing the world’s most complex problems—but has fallen out of fashion. Saran Twombly, Alan Hastings, Tom Miller, Michael Cortez, Karen Abbott, Tanjona Ramiadantsoa, Julie Blackwood, & Olivia Prosper write: issues.org/new-theory-inc…

The scariest part of this article is the plot of average summertime highs which is basically a straight line for roughly the past 10 years showing a 4 degree Fahrenheit increase during that time. Oh, and the really scary forecast for the next week. sacbee.com/news/local/art…

First of a series of great papers by soon to be former lab member Evan Johnson just went online: Towards a heuristic understanding of the storage effect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

My lab is recruiting 2 graduate students (one M.S. and one Ph.D.) for Spring/Fall 2023. We are interested in identifying optimal movement strategies in heterogeneous environments by using the laboratory system of C. elegans and developing new mathematical theory. Pls contact &RT

Alan Hastings as we were just discussing....

How to calculate coexistence mechanisms in modern coexistence theory explained nicely in new paper by just finished student Evan Johnson - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oi…

Paper with two former PhD students Evan Johnson (2022) and Chris Ray (1997) based on data and ideas from both their times as students just appeared in Eco Lett doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… Interesting ideas about population crashes. Never give up on old data and ideas!!

Sometimes simple ecological models are useful bc they force us to confront the assumptions underlying our intuition. Here we do that for the resilience of age-structured populations...Journal of Animal Ecology with Caren Barceló 🇺🇾🇺🇸 Alan Hastings and Loo Botsford

A really nice paper with firmer student Robert Decker on interplay among sea level rise and an ecosystem engineer just appeared - looking at the tension between sea level rise and a costal engineer that accretes sediment - doi.org/10.1007/s12080…