Events and Field Trips

 
Saturday, August 1, 2009

7:00 AM-5:30 PM
FT 2 - Life in the Twilight Zone: Lava Tube Ecology, El Malpais National Monument, NM, USA  

7:00 AM-7:00 PM
FT 1 - Los Alamos and the Jemez Mountains: Ecology and History  

7:30 AM-11:30 PM
FT 3 - CANCELLED - The Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Journey): A History of Long-Term Research in a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem  

8:00 AM-5:00 PM
FT 4 - Global Change Experiments at the Sevilleta LTER  

8:30 AM-5:00 PM
ESA Governing Board Meeting  
 
Sunday, August 2, 2009

7:00 AM-5:00 PM
FT 5 - Field Trip to Consider Ecological Aspects of the Northern Jornada Del Muerto Grasslands and Ecotones with Mockingbird Mountain and the Oscura Mountains on White Sands Missile Range, Socorro County, New Mexico  

8:00 AM-4:00 PM
FT 8 - Manzanos Raptor Viewing Field Trip with HawkWatch International  

8:00 AM-5:00 PM
FT 7 - CANCELLED - Sevilleta LTER and Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge  
FT 9 - Riparian Restoration Efforts on the Bosque del Apache NWR and along the Rio Grande of Central New Mexico  

8:00 AM-6:00 PM
FT 6 - Ecology in Agriculture of Pueblo and Acequia Communities  

8:30 AM-12:00 PM
ESA Governing Board Meeting  

8:30 AM-4:00 PM
FT 10 - SEEDS Education Outreach Initiative - "BioBlitz" at the Albuquerque Bosque Ecosystem  

8:30 AM-8:00 PM
FT 11 - Forest Restoration, Fire, and Water: Ecology of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico Rental  

9:00 AM-3:00 PM
FT 12 - Field Trip to Jemez Pueblo to Observe Corn Dances  

9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Novel Ecosystems and Climate Change: Developing a Research Agenda (By Invitation Only)  

1:00 PM-2:00 PM
ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting  

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

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

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
ESA Opening Plenary 1: Strategies to Sustain Earth's Freshwater Ecosystems  
 
Monday, August 3, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
SEEDS Breakfast  

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
EcoEd Digital Library Editorial Committee Business Meeting  
ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting  

8:00 AM-10:00 AM
ESA Plenary 2: Opening Scientific Plenary and Awards Ceremony: Disturbance and Landscape Dynamics in a Changing...  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
Business Meeting on New Carbon Cycle Science Plan  for US Funding Agencies  
ESA Awards Committee Meeting  
ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon (Invitation Only)  
ESA Mexico Chapter Business Meeting  
ESA Past Presidents' Forum Luncheon  
ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter Business Meeting  
ESA SEEDS Brown Bag Luncheon  
ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation  
Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Business Meeting and Mixer  

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

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

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

5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Musicians Central  

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Christian Ecologist Social  
ESA Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer  
ESA Biogeosciences Section Mixer  
ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting  
ESA Student Section Mixer  
ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer  
ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Meeting  
ESA Vegetation Section and IAVS-NA Business Meeting and Mixer  
Utah State University Ecologists Mixer  
 
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  

8:30 AM-4:00 PM
FT 13 - Songs Sustaining Seeds: Santo Domingo Pueblo Harvest Dance  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
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  

2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting  

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
ESA Eco-Art Student Choice Awards  
 
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting  

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Development Committee Business Meeting  
ESA Meetings Committee Meeting  
ESA Publications Committee Meeting  

7:00 AM-11:00 AM
FT 14 - Exploring the Urban Gradient of Albuquerque  

8:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Business Meeting  

8:00 AM-2:00 PM
ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification  

8:30 AM-3:30 PM
FT 15 - Sandia Peak Tramway  

11:30 AM-12:00 PM
ESA Presider/AV Training  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Environmental Justice Section Business Meeting  
ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting  
ESA Southeastern Chapter Brown Bag Lunch  

12:15 PM-1:15 PM
ESA Plenary 3: Recent Advances Lecture: Urban Ecosystem Services: Advances and Uncertainties  

5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Musicians Central  

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Colorado State University Ecologists Mixer  
ESA Diversity Mixer  
ESA Microbial Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer  
ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer  
ESA Plant Population Biology Section Mixer  
ESA South American Chapter Inaugural Business Meeting  
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Mixer  
University of California, Davis Mixer  

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SEEDS Fellowship Meeting  
 
Thursday, August 6, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Historic Records Business Meeting  

9:00 AM-1:00 PM
FT 16 - Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP): Long-Term Monitoring of Riparian Sites Above and Below the Albuquerque Drinking Water Project Diversion Dam and Reconstructed Wetlands at a Post-Burn Site  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
The EM Buzz: we feed you; you help us move Ecological Monographs into the Twittering Age  
ESA Agroecology Section Business Meeting  
ESA Diversity Luncheon  
ESA Urban Ecosystems Ecology Brown Bag Lunch  
Issues in Ecology Advisory Board Meeting  

4:00 PM-5:00 PM
SEEDS Closing  

5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Musicians Central  

7:00 PM-9:00 PM
An Evening in Albuquerque  
 
Friday, August 7, 2009

7:00 AM-4:00 PM
FT 17 - Valles Caldera National Preserve -- Science-Based Adaptive Management of Public Lands  

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

11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Braun Student Award Committee Meeting  
Musicians Central  

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Closing Lunch  

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