Monday, August 6, 2007

6:45 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Education and Human Resources Business Meeting

7:00 AM-7:30 AM
AV Training Session 2

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Development Meeting
ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting
SEEDS Breakfast

7:00 AM-10:00 PM
Student Lounge

8:00 AM-10:30 AM
Opening Plenary, Awards Ceremony, and MacArthur Lecture

9:00 AM-1:30 PM
FT 14 - Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

10:00 AM-11:30 AM
SS 1 - International connections: Advantages, opportunities, and challenges to international research in ecology
SS 2 - Decadal science planning for the ecological sciences
SS 3 - What is NEON becoming?
SS 4 - Informational session: Opportunities for funding in environmental biology and related areas at NSF
SS 5 - ESA Vice President's Summit on Ecological Literacy
SS 6 - Environmental justice, ecology, and restoration: Advancing the agenda
SS 7 - How ESA scientists obtain funding from NSF programs in the Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR)
SS 8 - Improv 101

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
WK 17 - Book publishing 101 for ecologists
WK 18 - Teaching using conceptual ecological modeling
Federal Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch
ESA Awards Committee Meeting
ESA Brown-Bag Lunch: SEEDS chapter highlights
ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation
ESA VIP Editor's Lunch

11:45 AM-12:15 PM
AV Training Session 3
Presider Training Session 2

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
SYMP 1 - Ecological constraints to the restoration of California grasslands
SYMP 2 - Tipping points in the biosphere: Agriculture, water, and resilience
SYMP 3 - Key concepts and research questions in restoration ecology
OOS 1 - Host-associated differentiation in multi-trophic interactions: Host plants as ecological and evolutionary islands
OOS 2 - Forest restoration at the scale of the landscape
OOS 3 - Restoration of western riparian ecosystems: Challenges and solutions
OOS 4 - Diagnostic assessment: Uncovering and responding to how our students are thinking
OOS 5 - Alternative futures for Great Basin ecosystems
OOS 6 - Ancient extinctions and modern experiments: The ecological effects of adding and removing megaherbivores from the landscape
COS 1 - Biodiversity patterns: Gradients and biogeography
COS 2 - Climate change and carbon cycling I
COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models
COS 4 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Planning and policy
COS 5 - Ecology education
COS 6 - Ecology of boreal and temperate forest habitats
COS 7 - Ecosystem and community stability and resilience
COS 8 - Evolution and life history theory: Animals
COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability
COS 10 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation I
COS 11 - Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences
COS 12 - Invasion: Population process and theory
COS 13 - Mycorrhizae: Plant-fungus relationships and ecosystem function
COS 14 - Niche relationship and theory I
COS 15 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in aquatic systems
COS 16 - Population modeling I: General and theory
COS 17 - Restoration ecology: Wildlife restoration, wildlife response
COS 18 - Species interactions
COS 19 - Statistical theory and methods

4:30 PM-9:00 PM
FT 15 - Cultivating Agroecological Research: Dinner and Discussion at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 1 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages
PS 2 - Aquatic ecology
PS 3 - Arid and semi-arid systems
PS 4 - Biodiversity
PS 5 - Coastal
PS 6 - Community disturbance, recovery
PS 7 - Community pattern and dynamics
PS 8 - Estuary
PS 9 - Forest canopy
PS 10 - Forest habitats
PS 11 - Grasslands
PS 12 - Habitat
PS 13 - Landscape ecology
PS 14 - Marine systems
PS 15 - Rhizophere
PS 16 - Riparian
PS 17 - Species-area relationship
PS 18 - Shrublands
PS 19 - Urban ecology
PS 20 - Wetland habitats
Musicians Central

5:00 PM-8:00 PM
SER Membership Meeting

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Christian Ecologists Mixer
Oikos Drinks Reception
ESA Aquatic Ecology Meeting
ESA Student Mixer
ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Meeting
ESA Vegetation Section & NA-IAVS MIxer
Utah State University Ecologists

6:30 PM-10:00 PM
SS 16 - What editors want: Advice for submitting your manuscript

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 10 - Increasing diversity in the ecological workforce
SS 11 - Knowing, valuing, and protecting intensively used urban and coastal ecosystems and landscapes
SS 13 - What Restorationists Need to Know About Invasive Plants
SS 14 - Ecology education in the Ecological Society of America
SS 15 - Sense of place
SS 17 - Sustainable water resource use: Proposed indicators and research priorities
SS 31 - An evening with music and ecology