Monday, August 4, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA SEEDS Breakfast

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Ecology Editorial Board Mtg

8:00 AM-10:00 AM
PL 2 - Opening Scientific Plenary and Awards Ceremony - Ecological science and tomorrow's world--Lord Robert May

10:15 AM-11:30 AM
SS 1 - Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology: Issues, Obstacles, and Paths Forward
SS 2 - Are We Managing Holistic Ecosystems or Parts of Ecosystems?
SS 3 - Student Ecological Research on K-12 School Grounds
SS 4 - Opportunities for Funding in Environmental Biology and Related Areas at NSF
SS 5 - Student Diversity: Trail Blazers in Transforming the Culture of Ecology
SS 6 - Sense of Place

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
WK 20 - Introduction to TIEE (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology): A Peer-Reviewed Electronic Publication Designed to Help Ecology Faculty Teach Better
WK 21 - Book Publishing 102 for Ecologists
WK 22 - The Art of Mentoring: How to Get Out of Your Niche
WK 23 - Exploring the Places We Live: Citizen Scientists
WK 24 - How to Use Your Science to Protect the Environment and Why You Should
ESA Awards Committee Business Mtg
ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon (Invitation Only)
ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon (Invitation Only)
ESA Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Business Mtg
ESA Student Orientation

11:30 AM-6:30 PM
Opening of ESA Exhibits with Refreshments

11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Presider/AV Training

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
SYMP 1 - Why Is Ecology Hard To Learn? K-16 Through Graduate Students
SYMP 2 - The Theory of Ecology
SYMP 3 - Ecology and Economics: A New Literacy for Sharing Approaches to Achieve Synergy
OOS 1 - Investigating Your Own Teaching: Ecology Faculty as Research Practitioners
OOS 2 - Soil, Water, and Plants: Linking Physical Processes in Water-Controlled Ecosystems
OOS 3 - Insect Disturbance Ecology: A Forest's Perspective
OOS 4 - The Landscape-Scale Ecology of Pollinators and Pollination: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Processes
COS 1 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages I
COS 2 - Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes
COS 3 - Carbon Cycling: Soils I
COS 4 - Climate Change: Range and Phenology
COS 5 - Community Ecology: Plants I
COS 6 - Food Webs
COS 7 - Forest Management
COS 8 - GIS, Remote Sensing, and Spatial and Image Analysis
COS 9 - Historical Ecology and Survey Records
COS 10 - Invasion: Detection and Invasibility
COS 11 - Public Outreach of Ecological Concepts
COS 12 - Sampling and Experimental Design and Species-Area Relations
COS 13 - Selection and Adaptation
COS 14 - Soil Ecology
COS 15 - Water Cycling

5:00 PM-5:45 PM
ESA Award Recipients' Reception (Invitation Only)

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 1 - Aquatic Ecology
PS 2 - Climate Change
PS 3 - Cycling: Carbon
PS 4 - Cycling: Nitrogen
PS 5 - Cycling: Nutrient and Water
PS 6 - Disease and Epidemiology
PS 7 - Genetics
PS 8 - Herbivory
PS 9 - Mycorrhizae
PS 10 - Phenotypic Plasticity
PS 11 - Plant-Insect Interactions
PS 12 - Pollination
PS 13 - Population Dynamics
PS 14 - Resource Allocation and Partitioning
PS 15 - Seeds
PS 16 - Spatial Analysis and GIS
Musicians Central

5:30 PM-9:30 PM
FT 10 - Lake Michigan Cruise: A Look Beneath the Waves

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Christian Ecologist Social
ESA Aquatic Section Mixer
ESA Student Mixer
ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer and Business Mtg
ESA Vegetation Section and IAVS-NA Mtg and Mixer
Issues in Ecology Advisory Board Mtg
Utah State University Ecology Center

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 7 - Studying Chicago Wilderness: An Urban Conservation Model as a Regional Interdisciplinary Laboratory
SS 8 - Pedagogical Frameworks for Teaching Inquiry in Middle and High School Classrooms: Lessons from GK-12
SS 9 - Creating Environmental Stewardship Through Discovery: An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of US National Parks
SS 10 - International Polar Year: Research and Educational Opportunities in Antarctica for Minorities (IPY-ROAM)
SS 11 - Wild Rice Roundtable Discussion
SS 12 - Research Grants for Ecologists at Undergraduate Institutions: A Conversation with Funding Agencies
WK 25 - Careers in Ecology: Advice from Professionals in the Field
Music and Ecology
Student Ecofilm Festival