Tuesday, August 5, 2008

6:30 AM-10:30 AM FT 11 - Birding around Milwaukee Harbor 7:00 AM-8:00 AM ESA Graduate Student & Post Doc Bagels Roundtable ESA Leadership ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Rocky Mountain Chapter, and Western Chapters' Breakfast Mtg 7:00 AM-9:00 AM Capstone NPER Fellowship Program Breakfast ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Mtg ESA Meetings Committee ESA Professional Certification Board Mtg ESA SEEDS Advisory Board Mtg 8:00 AM-11:30 AM SYMP 4 - Ecology Education and Outreach Programs at North American Field Stations: Natural Resource Islands to Improve Ecological Literacy and Outdoor Learning Experiences for a K-20+ Urbanized Society SYMP 5 - The Ecological and Economic Impacts of Nonnative, Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens SYMP 6 - New Approaches to the Evolution of Social Behavior OOS 5 - Have Microbes Read the Book?: Theoretical Ecology for Microbial Communities OOS 6 - Integrating Modern Instrumentation Into Undergraduate Ecology Education: Case Studies and Strategies OOS 7 - Ecological Exploration of Plant Elemental Defenses 11:30 AM-1:15 PM WK 26 - Conservation in the 21st Century: Saving species and ecosystems from climate change by translocation to new, more climatically suitable regions WK 27 - Writing a 'teaching philosophy' statement: models and suggestions WK 28 - Extending Your Research into Policy and Adult Education: Two for the Price of One WK 29 - How to Write a Scientific Publication Ecosystems Editorial Board Mtg ESA Human Ecology--New Section Business Mtg--Open to all interested attendees ESA Long Term Studies Research Studies Business Mtg ESA Microbial Ecology Section Business Mtg ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon ESA Public Affairs Committee Mtg ESA SEEDS Chapter Program Brown Bag ESA Southwestern Chapter Inaugural Business Mtg ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Mtg ESA Urban Ecology Section GLBT Brown Bag Lunch 12:00 PM-1:30 PM ESA Student Section Pizza Business Mtg 1:30 PM-5:00 PM SYMP 7 - Ecological Processes Across the Salinity Divide: Contrasts and Comparisons in Marine and Great Lakes Ecosystems SYMP 8 - Tracking Ecological Change: Using Large-Scale, Long-Term Datasets SYMP 9 - Linking Scientists With Non-Traditional Public Audiences to Enhance Ecological Thought OOS 8 - Size and Reproduction in Plant Populations OOS 9 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building Upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda OOS 10 - Linkages Between Ecosystem Disturbance and Exotic Species Invasions in Forested Ecosystems OOS 11 - Frontiers in the Ecology of Plant-Fungal Interactions 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Ecology Letters Editorial Board Mtg 5:00 PM-6:30 PM Musicians Central 6:30 PM-7:30 PM Oecologia Editorial Board Social Hour 6:30 PM-8:00 PM Ecology Letters Drinks Reception (Invitation only) ESA Agroecology, Applied Ecology, Long-Term Studies, and Rangeland Section Business Mtg and Mixer ESA Asian Ecology Mixer ESA Canada Chapter Business Mtg and Mixer ESA Donor Reception ESA Education Section Business Mtg/Mixer ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Mtg ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer and Business Mtg ESA Statistical Ecology Section--Mixer/Business Mtg University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alumni & Friends Reception 8:00 PM-10:00 PM SS 13 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda SS 14 - NSF Undergraduate Education Session SS 15 - Projects Linking Science Research and the Community - Examples and Ideas SS 16 - How to Get and Keep a Job at a Small College SS 17 - Linking Research and Education in and beyond Our National Parks WK 30 - Encyclopedia of Earth: A New Publishing Model for Outreach by Ecologists