ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board

- SER Governing Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:55 PM

FT 6 - Big Sur Forests and Grasslands (OVERNIGHT)

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

WK 1 - Ecosystems as templates for sustainable communities

8:30 AM-5:30 PM

FT 2 - A trip through time: Plant-soil relationships of the Santa Cruz marine terraces

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

- SEEDS Alumni Breakfast

9:00 AM-1:30 PM

FT 3 - Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

WK 2 - The California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM): A tool for assessing the condition of wetland restoration projects

10:30 AM-1:00 PM

- SEEDS Student Orientation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

- SEEDS Student Lunch

2:00 PM-11:55 PM

FT 4 - Bats of Pinnacles National Monument

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

- SEEDS Mentor Orientation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

- SEEDS Dinner

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

FT 8 - Big Sur bird banding and condor tracking

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board

WK 4 - Demography and dispersal: The analysis of invasion wave speeds

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

FT 13 - Northern California redwood ecology

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

- SER Governing Board Meeting

FT 12 - Marine mammals and redwoods

WK 5 - A brief introduction to Bayesian and hierarchical Bayesian modeling in ecology

WK 6 - An introduction to the analysis of community and multivariate time series using multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models

WK 7 - Communicating science to the public: The where, why, and how of engaging non-scientists

8:15 AM-2:00 PM

FT 9 - South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

FT 10 - San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

WK 8 - Environmental flows for instream and coastal ecosystems: Sorting through methodologies

WK 9 - Scientific teaching and interactive learning: Strategies to maximize student understanding in the biological sciences

WK 10 - An introduction to structural equation modeling

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

FT 11 - Monterey Bay Aquarium

WK 11 - Spatial modeling of stream network data

9:00 AM-11:45 AM

WK 12 - Academic service learning in ecology

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

- Global Soil Biodiversity Project Meeting

11:00 AM-11:30 AM

- Presider Training Session 1

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

- AV Training Session 1

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

WK 13 - Developing a strategic plan for grad school and beyond

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

- ESA Buell Braun Judges Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 15 - Urban ecosystem education: Concepts and practices

WK 16 - Using digital libraries in undergraduate teaching: A roadmap for faculty

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

- ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

- Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network Open Forum

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- ESA Opening Plenary Session

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

- ESA Welcome Mixer

Monday, August 6, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

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

- ESA Awards Committee Meeting

- ESA Brown-Bag Lunch: SEEDS chapter highlights

- ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation

- ESA VIP Editor's Lunch

- Federal Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

WK 17 - Book publishing 101 for ecologists

WK 18 - Teaching using conceptual ecological modeling

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

- AV Training Session 3

- Presider Training Session 2

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

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

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

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

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

- Musicians Central

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

5:00 PM-8:00 PM

- SER Membership Meeting

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- Christian Ecologists Mixer

- ESA Aquatic Ecology Meeting

- ESA Student Mixer

- ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Meeting

- ESA Vegetation Section & NA-IAVS MIxer

- Oikos Drinks Reception

- 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

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

6:00 AM-10:00 AM

FT 16 - Birding the South San Francisco Bay

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Graduate Student & Post Doc Bagels Roundtable with NEON leadership

- ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting

- ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter and Western Chapter Meeting

- SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Meeting Committee

- ESA Professional Certification Board Meeting

- Frontiers Editoral Board Meeting

- NPER Meeting

7:30 AM-8:30 AM

- ESA MacArthur Award Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 20 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages: Behavior to biogeochemistry

COS 21 - Climate change and carbon cycling II

COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory

COS 23 - Ecology of riparian habitats

COS 24 - Ecology of tropical and subtropical forest habitats

COS 25 - Ecosystem function: Carbon, energy, and NPP

COS 26 - Evolution and life history theory: Plants

COS 27 - Herbivory: Community and ecosystem patterns and effects

COS 28 - Interspecific competition

COS 29 - Invasion: Community invasibility and controls on invasion

COS 30 - Invasion: Population regulation and interactions

COS 31 - Niche relations and theory II

COS 32 - Pollination: Ecology and evolution

COS 33 - Population dynamics and regulation: Plants

COS 34 - Population modeling II: Animals, including humans

COS 35 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Concepts and case studies

COS 36 - Restoration ecology in grassland habitats

COS 37 - Soil ecology

COS 38 - Species-area relationships and abundance and rarity

OOS 7 - Trophic structure across systems: Case studies and synthesis

OOS 8 - Restoring physical and ecological connections in roaded landscapes

OOS 9 - Human roles in ecosystems through deep time: The North Pacific as a case study

OOS 10 - What is the right size ecological model? Views on model complexity and parsimony from different statistical paradigms

OOS 11 - Illuminating the black box: Examining the mycorrhizal symbiosis and its effect on plant and fungal community dynamics

OOS 12 - Reducing uncertainty: Adaptive management in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

OOS 13 - Agricultural landscapes: Critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration

SYMP 4 - Flexible foragers in food webs

SYMP 5 - No child left indoors: Ecologists linking young people with nature

SYMP 6 - Ecological foundations of sustainability in a constantly changing world

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative: Citizen Stewardship for the Conservation of the Sagebrush Biome and Sage Grouse

- ESA Agroecology Section Brown Bag Meeting

- ESA Long-term Studies Business Meeting

- ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon

- ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting

- ESA Student Section Pizza Lunch and Business Meeting

- ESA Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Meeting

- Ecosystem Editorial Board Meeting

- No Child Left Indoors Discussion

- SER Chapter Caucus Meeting

WK 19 - How to write a scientific publication

WK 20 - Introduction to TIEE (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology): A peer-reviewed electronic publication designed to help ecology faculty teach better

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 39 - Carbon cycling

COS 40 - Climate change: Effects on ecosystem function and biogeochemistry

COS 41 - Climate change: Phenology and population responses

COS 42 - Community dynamics and diversity

COS 43 - Community ecology: Modeling and applications

COS 44 - Conservation biology, ecosystem management, and sustainability

COS 45 - Disease and epidemiology

COS 46 - Ecology education: Extended audiences

COS 47 - Ecology of created and restored wetlands

COS 48 - Evolution: Population genetics and population differentiation

COS 49 - Food webs II: Analytic methods, applications

COS 50 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation II: Case studies

COS 51 - Invasion: Genetics and evolutionary processes

COS 52 - Invasion: Interactions with ecosystem properties

COS 53 - Matrix models: Methods and applications

COS 54 - Mycorrhizae: Community-level relationships

COS 55 - Pollination: Ecology and management

COS 56 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Methods and approaches

COS 57 - Restoration ecology in western grassland and arid habitats

COS 58 - Statistical ecology: Applications

OOS 14 - Biogeochemical variation within and between tropical ecosystems

OOS 15 - Long-term restoration and conservation in "wilderness-development frontiers": The value of integrating ecology and ethics

OOS 16 - Root herbivores as agents of change: Micro- and macro-herbivores across natural and managed systems

OOS 17 - E-learning in ecology education

OOS 18 - The link between propagule pressure and non-native invasion success and impacts

OOS 19 - Science policy participants and their perspectives

OOS 20 - Ecoagriculture: Restoring wild biodiversity, livelihoods, and ecosystem processes in agricultural landscapes

SYMP 7 - Environmental change, extinction risk, and the maintenance of biodiversity through time

SYMP 8 - Plant functional traits as tools for ecological restoration

SYMP 9 - Ecological analysis in the 21st century: Advances in space-based observations for local to global ecological studies

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

- Ecology Letters Editorial Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

- Musicians Central

PS 21 - Behavior

PS 22 - Community assembly

PS 23 - Competition

PS 24 - Decompostition

PS 25 - Disease

PS 26 - Dispersal

PS 27 - Distribution

PS 28 - Fire ecology

PS 29 - Herbivory

PS 30 - Invasion

PS 31 - Life history

PS 32 - Mutualism

PS 33 - Niche

PS 34 - Parasitism

PS 35 - Plant/insect interactions

PS 36 - Pollination

PS 37 - Predation

PS 38 - Seeds

PS 39 - Species interactions

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- ESA Education Section Meeting

- ESA Physiological Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Soil Ecology Mixer

- ESA Statistical Ecology Section Meeting

- ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Meeting

- Ecology Letters Drinks Reception (by invitation only)

- Organization for Tropical Studies Reception

- The ESA Donor Reception (by invitation)

- USGS Staff Reception

- University of Georgia Ecology Reception

- University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alumni and Friends Mixer

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

- Oecologia Editorial Board Dinner Meeting

- SER Awards Reception and Banquet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 18 - How to land and keep a job at a small liberal arts college

SS 19 - Integrating research in invasion biology and restoration ecology into protected area management

SS 20 - How to succeed in ecology: Advice from professionals

SS 21 - Ecology education and outreach programs at North American field stations: An important resource for an urbanized society and possible remedy for a generation with nature deficit disorder

SS 22 - Real management issues in secondary tropical forests

SS 23 - Bridging western science and indigenous traditional ecological knowledge ethically: What works and what doesn’t

SS 24 - Journalists are from Venus, scientists are from Mars: Bridging the worlds of science and journalism

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

5:30 AM-7:30 AM

- ESA Sunrise 5K Fun Run/Fun Walk

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Meetings Committee

- ESA Publications Committee Meeting

7:00 AM-1:30 PM

FT 17 - Santa Clara Valley riparian habitat restoration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 59 - Amphibian ecology and decline

COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I

COS 61 - Carbon cycling: Soil processes

COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics

COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation

COS 64 - Disease ecology: Plant pathogens and vectors

COS 65 - Ecology of fresh-water wetlands

COS 66 - Ecology of grassland habitats

COS 67 - Food webs III: Aquatic and marine systems

COS 68 - Forest communities: Pattern and dynamics

COS 69 - Herbivory: Patterns and population responses

COS 70 - Invasion: Diversity relationships

COS 71 - Invasion: Trophic relationships

COS 72 - Modeling ecosystem dynamics and climate change

COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions

COS 74 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods: I

COS 75 - Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions

COS 76 - Sampling theory, methods, and assessment

COS 77 - Seed ecology: Production, predation, and dispersal

COS 78 - Spatial analysis and geostatistics

OOS 21 - Not-such-strange-bedfellows: Partnerships between scientists and artists enhance ecological research, art, and ecological restoration

OOS 22 - Stepping back in time: The application of historical and fossil records to recovering ecological baselines

OOS 23 - Tropical agroforestry as model systems for ecology

OOS 24 - Soil biota alteration of aboveground plant interactions

OOS 25 - Ecosystem responses to experimental warming and other global climate change factors

OOS 26 - Restoration of ecological processes: Comparing the role of plant-insect interactions in tropical and temperate systems

OOS 27 - Matrix population models: Theory and applications

SYMP 10 - The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks: Restoration and conservation at multiple trophic levels

SYMP 11 - Linking physiological ecology, evolutionary biology, and functional genomics for understanding biotic responses to a changing environment

SYMP 12 - Linking ecology and restoration to societal outcomes: Living the legacy of George Brown

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Microbial Ecology Section Meeting

- ESA Paleoecology Section Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Rapid Response Team Lunch

- ESA Science Committe Meeting

- ESA Southeastern Chapter Meeting

- Ecologists from Undergraduate Institutions Brown Bag Lunch

- Gay and Lesbian Brown Bag Lunch

- Putting your scientific skills to use for the public interest and environmental protection

WK 21 - Bridging the worlds of science and journalism: An interactive workshop

WK 22 - Integrating educational outreach into academic research

WK 23 - Writing a "teaching philosophy" statement: Models and suggestions

WK 24 - You can count on us: Decision support tools for forest carbon management and reporting

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

- Presider Training Session 3

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 79 - Behavioral ecology: Foraging and diet

COS 80 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function II

COS 81 - Climate change: community response

COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern

COS 83 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Case studies I

COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism

COS 85 - Ecology of the freshwater habitats I

COS 86 - Fire ecology I

COS 87 - Food webs IV: Terrestrial systems

COS 88 - Forest canopy ecology

COS 89 - Life history theory, resource allocation, and sex allocation

COS 90 - Nitrogen cycling

COS 91 - Paleoecology, historical ecology, and restoration baselines

COS 92 - Parasites, pathogens, and hosts

COS 93 - Plant physiological ecology: Water relations

COS 94 - Plant-insect interactions

COS 95 - Population modeling III

COS 96 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods II

COS 97 - Restoration ecology in wetlands I: Coastal and created

COS 98 - Spatial patterns: Description and analysis

OOS 28 - Inferring environmental conditions from biological observations: Tools for environmental management

OOS 29 - Agroecological restoration: Synergy of science and community in the local and global marketplace

OOS 30 - Synthesizing ecological studies in a changing world using meta-analysis

OOS 31 - Grassland restoration: Ecosystem recovery across space and time

OOS 32 - Disease emergence and amphibian declines: Using ecology to understand patterns and promote restoration

OOS 33 - Ecological restoration for poverty reduction

OOS 34 - Ecological consequences of size-structured interactions

SYMP 13 - Setting goals and targets for restoration and management of large-scale ecosystems

SYMP 14 - Microbial communities along environmental gradients: Linking microbial ecology and the ecosystem

SYMP 15 - Beyond Single Mechanisms: The Relative and Interactive Importance of Bottom-up and Top-down Processes in Plant Invasion

4:00 PM-8:45 PM

FT 18 - Checkerspot butterfly and grassland restoration and work party at Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

- University of California Press Authors Reception

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- Musicians Central

PS 40 - Cycling - carbon

PS 41 - Cycling - nitrogen

PS 42 - Cycling - nutrients, water

PS 43 - Climate change

PS 44 - Ecosystem function

PS 45 - Ecosystem stability

PS 46 - Environment gradient

PS 47 - Modeling

PS 48 - Mycorrhizae

PS 49 - Phenotypic plasticity

PS 50 - Physiological ecology

PS 51 - Population dynamics

PS 52 - Resource allocation

PS 53 - Soil ecology

PS 54 - Succession

PS 55 - Trophic dynamics

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- British Ecological Society Drinks Reception (by invitation only)

- Brown University Environmental Change Initiative Mixer

- Colorado State Univeristy Ecologists Mixer

- ESA Agroecology, Applied Ecology, Long-Term Studies, and Rangeland Sections Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Biogeosciences Mixer

- ESA Canada Chapter Mixer

- ESA Diversity Mixer - SEEDS Dispersal

- ESA Mexican Chapter Meeting

- ESA Plant Population Biology Mixer

- Restoration Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

- UC Davis Ecology Mixer

- Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Alumni/ae Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

- Recent Advances Lecture: Multiple feedbacks link changes in climate and ecosystems

SS 25 - Everglades restoration efforts: Using landscape features, chemistry, and biology as indices of success

SS 26 - Bridging the gap: Establishing outreach activities at ESA meetings

SS 27 - ESA Southeast Knowledge Partnership Pilot Project

SS 28 - Restoration to sustainable landscapes: Building a partnership between scientific, traditional, and local ecological knowledge

SS 29 - Do scientists sound like a flock of dodos? Science communication without jargon

SS 30 - Biodiversity standards for agricultural lands in Canada

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Historic Record Committe Meeting

7:30 AM-11:30 AM

- ESA Vegetation Classification Panel BM

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 99 - Agricultural ecology I: Biogeochemistry management

COS 100 - Behavioral ecology: Movement and social interaction

COS 101 - Biodiversity patterns and processes

COS 102 - Climate change: Range change

COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease

COS 104 - Distributions and range limits

COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems

COS 106 - Ecology of freshwater habitats II

COS 107 - Environmental philosophy, socioeconomic connections, and traditional ecological knowledge

COS 108 - Fire ecology II

COS 109 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies I

COS 110 - Mycorrhizae III

COS 111 - Nitrogen cycling across systems

COS 112 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in forest ecosystems

COS 113 - Parasitism: theory, evolution, and ecology

COS 114 - Plant physiological ecology: light and water relations

COS 115 - Plant-insect interactions: Chemical defenses and induction

COS 116 - Population biology: Metapopulations

COS 117 - Remote sensing and image analysis

COS 118 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Assessment

COS 119 - Restoration ecology in wetlands II: Freshwater

OOS 35 - The multi-faceted challenge of restoring Lake Tahoe Basin's ecosystems

OOS 36 - Conservation and restoration of tropical dry forest: From islands to continents

OOS 37 - Climate change and disease ecology: Challenges to the restoration and maintenance of suitable pestilence

OOS 38 - A community assembly approach to restoration ecology

OOS 39 - Restoring neotropical forests in a hot, hot world

SYMP 16 - The success of succession: The development of a fundamental ecological theory and its application in a changing world

SYMP 17 - Ecological and economic theory in analyzing risk in biological invasions

SYMP 18 - Yin and yang: The combined influences of positive and negative interactions in ecological communities

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

FT 19 - Guadalupe River: Advancing ecological function in managed ecosystems

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

- Issues in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Brown-Bag Lunch: A guided tour of EcoEd.net ESA'S digital library

- ESA Diversity Luncheon: Women in power-networking, negotiating, and nurturing ecology careers

- Wisconsin Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

WK 25 - Climate change mitigation with an emphasis on the development of the forestry clean development mechanism (presented in Spanish)

WK 26 - Show me the money: How to write successful grant proposals

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

- SEEDS Undergraduate Research Fellowship Meeting

1:00 PM-6:00 PM

FT 20 - Santa Cruz Sandhills

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 120 - Agricultural ecology II: Agricultural systems as habitat, diversity

COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession

COS 122 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management case studies: II

COS 123 - Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I

COS 124 - Ecology of marine ecosystems and reefs

COS 125 - Fire ecology III

COS 126 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies II

COS 127 - Invasion: Competitive dynamics

COS 128 - Invasion: Management approaches and assessment

COS 129 - Invasion: Population processes and invasiveness

COS 130 - Microbial ecology I

COS 131 - Migration, dispersal, and colonization

COS 132 - Nitrogen cycling and enrichment in forests

COS 133 - North American vegetation classification

COS 134 - Phenotypic plasticity: Animals and protists

COS 135 - Plant physiological ecology: Respiration and transpiration

COS 136 - Plant-insection interactions: Defenses against herbivory

COS 137 - Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial

COS 138 - Restoration ecology: Methods

COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection

COS 140 - Urban ecology

OOS 40 - Biofuels from rangelands: Boon or bane?

OOS 41 - Commercial trade of plants and wildlife in a changing world: Research to inform policy

OOS 42 - Climate-induced forest dieback as an emergent global phenomenon: Patterns, mechanisms, and projections

OOS 43 - Biodiversity in the litter layer: Mechanisms and applications

OOS 44 - Elwha River restoration: Dam removal, ecological framework, and baseline studies

OOS 45 - The Gap Analysis Program: Addressing the future needs of ecological research, conservation, and restoration

SYMP 19 - Ecosystem services in decision-making: Stepping into reality

SYMP 20 - Advancing ecological function in managed ecosystems: Restoring, revealing, and re-inventing the landscape

SYMP 21 - Epidemics, ecological immunology, and environmental change: Insights from theory and field systems

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

- SEEDS Student Closing

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- Musicians Central

PS 56 - Agriculture

PS 57 - Conservation

PS 58 - Ecology education

PS 59 - Ecological management

PS 60 - Forest management

PS 61 - Evolutionary ecology

PS 62 - Genetics

PS 63 - Land use

PS 64 - Paleoecology

PS 65 - Rapid assessments

PS 66 - Remote sensing

PS 67 - Restoration ecology

PS 68 - Restoration methods

PS 69 - Spatial analysis and GIS

PS 70 - Sustainable management

PS 71 - Waste management

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

- ESA/SER Fiesta Fling

Friday, August 10, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

7:30 AM-12:00 PM

- ESA Vegetation Classification Panel BM

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 141 - Agroforestry and agricultural policy and conservation

COS 142 - Climate change: Physiological and population response

COS 143 - Community disturbance and response

COS 144 - Detritus and decomposition

COS 145 - Disease ecology: Lyme disease and other mammalain diseases

COS 146 - Dispersal and colonization

COS 147 - Ecology of arid and semi-arid habitats: II

COS 148 - Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and intertidal systems

COS 149 - Forest management

COS 150 - Invasion: Models of process and management

COS 151 - Invasion: Population processes and interactions

COS 152 - Microbial ecology II

COS 153 - Nutrient cycling: Limiting resources, interactions, and ecosystem restoration

COS 154 - Phenotypic plasticity: Plants

COS 155 - Plant physiological ecology: Temperature effects, growth relations

COS 156 - Pollution, waste management, rehabilitation

COS 157 - Population and meta-population dynamics: Aquatic and marine

COS 158 - Restoration and conservation: Planning, policy, and theory

COS 159 - Restoration ecology: Urban ecosystems

COS 160 - Scaling and allometry: From body size to ecosystem function

COS 161 - Selection and adaptation II: Animals and interacting populations

COS 162 - Stable isotope and tracer applications

COS 163 - Urban ecosystems: Design, management, and evaluation

OOS 46 - Information technology tools and programs link scientific research to conservation management and restoration: Answers from those "out standing in the field"

OOS 47 - The California Channel Islands: Conservation and restoration in dynamic ecosystems

OOS 48 - The role of animal behavior in invasions: From mechanism to synthesis

OOS 49 - Controls over nitrogen fixation: A global perspective

OOS 50 - The longleaf pine ecosystem: Ecology, management, and restoration

OOS 51 - Mechanistic underpinnings of ecological processes: Scaling from genes to ecosystems

SYMP 22 - Movement ecology

SYMP 23 - Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration in a changing world

SYMP 24 - Effects of human choice on ecosystem properties

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

PS 72 - Latebreaking and newsworthy posters

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA/SER Closing Plenary Brunch: Reflections by distinguished ecologists

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

- Musicians Central

12:00 PM-2:30 PM

- ESA Braun Student Award Committee Meeting

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | top

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

FT 21 - Lettuce, landscape and labor: A one-day exploration of the agriculture and environment interface on the California Central Coast

Copyright ©

. All rights reserved.
Banner photo by Flickr user greg westfall.