Final Program Listing

Special Session


Monday, August 3, 2009
10:15 AM-11:30 AM
SS 1 - Improv 101: Get Comfortable with Public Speaking
SS 2 - Warfare Ecology: Agenda for an Emerging Sub-Field
SS 3 - Resources for Ecology Education: Fair & Share (REEFS)
SS 4 - Sense of Place: Honoring the Ecological Knowledge of New Mexico Indigenous Communities
SS 5 - What is Sustainability Science and Can It Make Us Sustainable?
SS 6 - Surf and Turf: Establishing New Paradigms by Integrating Theory and Forging Partnerships between Marine and Terrestrial Ecology
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 7 - Opportunities for Funding in Environmental Biology and Related Areas at NSF
SS 8 - The American Southwest: Opportunities for Research and Education
SS 9 - When Ecosystem Goods and Services Jump and Crash: A Forum on Sustainability and Networking Options
SS 10 - Alternative Ecological Restoration Designs for Mined Landscapes: Strategies that Integrate Natural and Social Communities to Remediate Their Ecosystems
SS 11 - Informing Policy with Ecological Science
SS 12 - Film Screening of "Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War"

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 18 - Public Participation in Research (i.e., Citizen Science) and Ecological Literacy: Future Directions
SS 19 - The Schoolyard Children's Book Series: Ecology Stories for Outreach and Education
SS 20 - Photography for Conservation: Exploring How Visual Tools Improve Ecological Research, Literacy, and Sustainability
SS 21 - Alternate Ecology: An Exploration of Ecological Counterfactuals
SS 22 - Scenario-Based Analysis as a Focus for Sustainable Management of Natural Resources on Federal Lands