Tuesday, August 4, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM ESA Graduate Students and Post-Doc Roundtable with ESA Leadership 7:00 AM-9:00 AM ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Meeting ESA Meetings Committee Meeting ESA Professional Certification Board Meeting SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting 8:00 AM-11:30 AM SYMP 4 - "Declaring Interdependence": Concerned Ecological Thinkers of the Past SYMP 5 - Global Sustainability in the Face of Uncertainty: How to More Effectively Translate Ecological Knowledge to Policy Makers, Managers, and the Public SYMP 6 - Mutualistic Networks OOS 8 - Ecological Condition, Ecosystem Services and Human Well Being OOS 9 - Indicators of Regime Shifts in Ecological Systems OOS 10 - Ecological Research on Defense and Other Federal Lands OOS 11 - Physical-Ecological Linkages and Habitat Dynamics in Abandoned River Channels: Implications for River Corridor Management and Conservation OOS 12 - What's New Under the Sun? Photodegradation and Novel Drivers of Decompostion in Dryland Ecosystems OOS 13 - The Public Trust Doctrine: Where Ecology Meets Natural Resources Management OOS 14 - Species Interactions and Communities in the Context of Relatedness (1 of 2) COS 17 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet COS 18 - Biodiversity: Traits and Interactions COS 19 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions COS 20 - Chihuahuan Desert COS 21 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles COS 22 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Spatial Patterns COS 23 - Conservation Ecology COS 24 - Detritus and Decomposition COS 25 - Distributions and Range Limits COS 26 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation and Phenotypic Plasticity COS 27 - Forest Management COS 28 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity I COS 29 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses I COS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes COS 31 - Plant-Insect Interactions COS 32 - Wetlands 8:30 AM-4:00 PM FT 13 - Songs Sustaining Seeds: Santo Domingo Pueblo Harvest Dance 11:30 AM-1:15 PM WK 19 - Federal Extramural Funding Opportunities in the Ecological Sciences WK 20 - Models of Effective Research at Undergraduate Institutions WK 21 - Writing a "Teaching Philosophy" Statement: Models and Suggestions WK 22 - Environmental Justice in Ecology Curricula and Community Engagement WK 23 - 100 Views of Climate Change: How to Build a Cross-Campus Conversation Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting ESA Human Ecology Brown Bag Lunch ESA Long-Term Studies Section Business Meeting ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon ESA Science Committee Business Meeting ESA Southwest Chapter Brown Bag Lunch ESA Student Section Business Meeting GLBT Brown Bag Lunch Phenology Brown Bag Lunch 12:00 PM-1:00 PM ESA Paleoecology Section Business Meeting 1:30 PM-5:00 PM SYMP 7 - Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Should Ecologists Care? SYMP 8 - Human Macroecology: Understanding Human-Environment Interactions Across Scales SYMP 9 - From Genes to Watersheds: Developing a Post-Contemporary Agriculture (1888-2058) OOS 15 - Special Series on Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (1 of 3): Response of CBCs to Experimental Manipulations from the Plot- to Whole Ecosystem Scale OOS 16 - Linking data and theory in dendritic ecological networks: From ecological processes to rapid understanding OOS 17 - US National Vegetation Classification as a Tool for Sustainable Environmental Management and Conservation OOS 18 - Sustaining Freshwater Ecosystem Services: Adaptive Ecological and Social Responses to Climatic Changes OOS 19 - Analytical Methods in Phenology: Causes and Consequences of Phenological Variation Across Scales OOS 20 - Species Interactions and Communities in the Context of Relatedness (2 of 2) OOS 21 - Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Urban Regions for Advancing Ecology, Conservation and Education COS 33 - Abundance, Rarity, and Population Estimation COS 34 - Agroecology, Agroforestry, and Biofuels I COS 35 - Behavior: Migration and Movement I COS 36 - Biodiversity: Effects of Global Change COS 37 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects COS 38 - Climate Change: Plants I COS 39 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Forests COS 40 - Education: Research and Assessment COS 41 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation - Interactions COS 42 - Grasslands/Steppe COS 43 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity II COS 44 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses II COS 45 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes COS 46 - Land-Use and Land-Use History COS 47 - Physiology: Plant Respiration and Transpiration I COS 48 - Theoretical Ecology 2:00 PM-4:00 PM Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting 5:00 PM-6:30 PM PS 22 - Aquatic Ecology PS 23 - Biological Control PS 24 - Birds PS 25 - Environmental Gradients PS 26 - Fire PS 27 - Grasslands/Steppe PS 28 - Invasion PS 29 - Invasion: Community Effects PS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes PS 31 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes PS 32 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity PS 33 - Invasion: Models PS 34 - Invasion: Prevention and Management PS 35 - Invasion: Species Interactions PS 36 - Plant-Insect Interactions PS 37 - Pollination PS 38 - Remote Sensing and Image Analysis PS 39 - Rhizophere and Root Function PS 40 - Spatial Analysis and GIS PS 41 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Musicians Central 6:30 PM-8:00 PM Ecology Letters Drinks Reception ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting ESA Applied Ecology, Rangeland Ecology, Agroecology, and Long-Term Studies Section Mixer ESA Asian Ecology Section Mixer ESA Canada Chapter Business Meeting and Mixer ESA Donor Reception (Invitation Only) ESA Education Section Business Meeting ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer ESA Statistical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer Michigan Ecology Mixer hosted by University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and School of Natural Resources and Environment Oecologia Editorial Board Annual Meeting OTS Tropical Biology Mixer USGS Meet and Greet Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Alumni 8:00 PM-10:00 PM SS 13 - Islands of Sorrow, Islands of Hope: Resilience and Sustainability in Island Social-Ecological Systems SS 14 - Meet the Press: Talking Ecology with the Media SS 15 - Big Models in Ecology: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Are All Possible Outcomes SS 16 - Application of National Vegetation Classification for Management and Conservation SS 17 - Natural Resources and Climate Change: Effects and Adaptation WK 24 - Los Angeles' Rivers System: Ecological Desert or Vast Research Laboratory? WK 25 - Learn How to Publish in EcoEd DL, ESA's Digital Teaching Library WK 26 - Death Wish or Golden Parachute: A Discussion of Interdisciplinary Research in Ecology and Education and Making it Work for your Dissertation ESA Eco-Art Student Choice Awards