<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here is a biosketch of today's speaker.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Gabe</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>George Sugihara, University of California at San Diego</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">George Sugihara is a Professor for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. His research interests include complexity theory, catastrophic change in nonlinear systems, time series forecasting, food-web structure, species abundance patterns, conservation biology, landscape ecology, fisheries management and empirical climate modeling. In 1996 George Sugihara took a 5 year leave of absence from academe to become a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, where he was Head of Global Quantitative Proprietary Trading. Recently, Sugihara lead an international team of ecologists, including Lord Robert May of Oxford University and Sir John Beddington of Imperial College to resolve a 30-year controversy showing that fishing increases the boom and bust behavior of fished stocks, thereby putting fisheries at greater risk of collapse due to environmental change than anyone thought. The potential for catastrophic change in marine ecosystems was demonstrated quantitatively for the first time by Sugihara and his students a year earlier in their analysis of physical and biological data for the North Pacific basin over the 20<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT> century.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both of these studies (supported by NOAA’s Fisheries and The Environment program), appeared in <I>Nature Magazine</I><SPAN style="">, and have been cited by Adm. Lautenbacher (Undersecretary of Commerce and Head of NOAA) as timely in view of current efforts to reauthorize the Magnusson-Stevens Act for fisheries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sugihara is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Mathematical Sciences and its Applications, and is involved in an Academy report to the Federal Reserve System on “systemic risk in the financial sector” which among other things addresses the problem of market crashes (rapid transitions or regime shifts) as a generic property of complex systems. </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Web: <A href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/rab/act_detail.cfm?state=%26%2B%5E%2B.T%3C3Y%0A">http://sio.ucsd.edu/rab/act_detail.cfm?state=%26%2B%5E%2B.T%3C3Y%0A</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Email:<A href="mailto:gsugihara@ucsd.edu"> gsugihara@ucsd.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gabriel Gartner</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dept. of Biology</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1208 Spieth Hall</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of California</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Riverside, CA 92521</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:ggart001@ucr.edu">ggart001@ucr.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cell: 786-457-3282</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/Gartner.html">http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/Gartner.html</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>