Events and Field Trips

 
Friday, August 1, 2008

7:00 AM-11:55 PM
FT 1 - Door County Coastal State Natural Areas (OVERNIGHT)  
 
Saturday, August 2, 2008

8:00 AM-5:00 PM
ESA Governing Board  

8:30 AM-10:00 AM
ESA SEEDS Alumni Breakfast  

8:30 AM-4:00 PM
FT 2 - Horicon Marsh: A Wetland of International Importance  

9:00 AM-5:00 PM
FT - 3 Renak-Polak Old Growth Maple-Beech Woods and Chiwaukee Prairie  

10:30 AM-1:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Student Orientation  

1:00 PM-2:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Student Lunch  

4:30 PM-6:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Mentor Orientation  

6:00 PM-8:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Dinner  
 
Sunday, August 3, 2008

7:30 AM-6:00 PM
FT 4 - Cash, Cows, and Conservation: The New Face of America's Dairyland  

7:45 AM-4:15 PM
Ft 5 - Exploring Natural Plant Communities at Lapham Peak State Park and Lulu Lake Preserve  

8:00 AM-12:00 PM
ESA Governing Board Mtg  

8:30 AM-4:00 PM
FT 6 - Ecological Outreach Oppurtunity (EOO)-"BioBlitz" at the Proposed Milwaukee Centeral Pak Riparian Corridor  

8:30 AM-5:00 PM
FT 7 - Cedarburg Bog Natural Area and the UWM Field Station  

8:30 AM-5:30 PM
FT 8 - Linking Research and Education Through Museums: A Field Trip at the Morton Arboretum  

9:00 AM-3:00 PM
FT 9 - Snakes, Canoeing and Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center  

1:00 PM-2:00 PM
ESA Buell Braun Judges Mtg  

2:00 PM-5:00 PM
ESA Council Orientation Mtg and Reception  

3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Presider/AV Training  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PL 1 - ESA Opening Plenary Session - Ecological literacy in a phantasmagorical world Thomas E. Lovejoy  
 
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 Session - Ecological science and tomorrow's world Lord Robert May  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Awards Committee Business Mtg  
ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon  
ESA Rapid Response Luncheon  
ESA Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Business Mtg  
ESA Student Orientation  
Wisconsin Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch  

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

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

5:00 PM-5:45 PM
ESA Award Recipients' Reception (by invitation only)  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
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
Music and Ecology  
Student Ecofilm Festival  
 
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  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
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  

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  
 
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Educator day breakfast: Inquiry approaches to ecological principles in the classroom (by invitation)  

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Meetings Committee  
ESA Publications Committee Business Mtg  

8:00 AM-12:00 PM
FT 12 - Riveredge Nature Center - Lake Sturgeon Restoration in the Milwaukee River - Linking Ecological Research and Education  

8:00 AM-4:00 PM
ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification  

9:00 AM-11:30 AM
ESA Educator day discussion: How can teachers and students develop an ecological voice?  

11:30 AM-12:15 PM
ESA Educator day discussion: Informal table topic discussions  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Environmental Justice Section Business Mtg  
ESA Science Committee Mtg  
Resources for Ecology Education * Fair & Share (REEFS)  

11:45 AM-12:15 PM
Presider/AV Training  

12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Carleton College Alumni & Friends Brown Bag Lunch  

12:00 PM-1:15 PM
ESA Southeastern Chapter Brown Bag Business Mtg  

12:15 PM-1:15 PM
PL 3 - Recent Advances Lecture - Moving beyond ecological to educational research: What are the questions? How do we answer them? What have we learned? Diane Ebert-May  

2:15 PM-5:00 PM
ESA Educator day discussion: Population halved as invasive mussle rule  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Musicians Central  

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Colorado State University Ecologists  
ESA Biogeosciences Section Mixer  
ESA Diversity Mixer  
ESA Educator day discussion: Wrap-up discussion: What did we learn?  
ESA Mexican Chapter Business Mtg  
ESA Plant Population Ecology Section Mixer  
Nutrient Network Business Mtg  
University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology Reception  
USGS Meet and Greet  
Yale University - F&ES Alumni/ae Reception  

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Undergraduate Research Fellowship Mtg  
 
Thursday, August 7, 2008

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Business Mtg  

8:00 AM-1:00 PM
FT 13 - Urban Forestry, Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Justice  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Diversity Luncheon: Women and Minorities in Ecology (WAMIE)  
ESA Professional Certification Brown Bag Lunch and Information Session  
Phenology Brown Bag Lunch  

12:00 PM-1:00 PM
ESA Paleoecology Section Business Mtg  

4:00 PM-5:00 PM
ESA SEEDS Closing  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Musicians Central  

7:00 PM-9:00 PM
ESA Ecofest  
 
Friday, August 8, 2008

8:30 AM-10:30 AM
ESA Governing Board Mtg  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Closing Lunch  
ESA Closing Lunch  

12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Musicians Central  
 
Saturday, August 9, 2008

8:00 AM-2:00 PM
FT 14 - The Miracle of Scuppernong Wet Prairie  

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