[Bgsa] George Sugihara Biosketch

[Gabriel E.A. Gartner]

Here is a biosketch of today's speaker.

Cheers,
Gabe

George Sugihara, University of California at San Diego
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 20th century.  Both of  
these studies (supported by NOAA’s Fisheries and The Environment  
program), appeared in Nature Magazine, 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.  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.
Web: http://sio.ucsd.edu/rab/act_detail.cfm?state=%26%2B%5E%2B.T%3C3Y%0A
Email: gsugihara at ucsd.edu

Gabriel Gartner
Dept. of Biology
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University of California
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