Tuesday, August 5, 2008

6:30 AM-10:30 AM
FT 11 - Birding Around Milwaukee Harbor

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Graduate Student & Post Doc Bagels Roundtable ESA Leadership
ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Rocky Mountain Chapter, and Western Chapters' Breakfast Mtg

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
Capstone NPER Fellowship Program Breakfast
ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Mtg
ESA Meetings Committee
ESA Professional Certification Board Mtg
ESA SEEDS Advisory Board Mtg

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
SYMP 4 - Ecology Education and Outreach Programs at North American Field Stations: Natural Resource Islands to Improve Ecological Literacy and Outdoor Learning Experiences for a K-20+ Urbanized Society
SYMP 5 - The Ecological and Economic Impacts of Non-native, Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens
SYMP 6 - New Approaches to the Evolution of Social Behavior
OOS 5 - Have Microbes Read the Book? Theoretical Ecology for Microbial Communities
OOS 6 - Integrating Modern Instrumentation Into Undergraduate Ecology Education: Case Studies and Strategies
OOS 7 - Ecological Exploration of Plant Elemental Defenses
COS 16 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages II
COS 17 - Carbon Cycling: Soils II
COS 18 - Climate Change and Plants I
COS 19 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory
COS 20 - Conservation Planning, Policy, and Theory
COS 21 - Ecosystem Management and Assessment
COS 22 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience
COS 23 - Forest Canopy and Tropical Forests
COS 24 - Grasslands and Steppe
COS 25 - In The Classroom: Kindergarten through Graduate I
COS 26 - Invasion: Community Effects I
COS 27 - Modeling I
COS 28 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions
COS 29 - Plant Respiration and Transpiration
COS 30 - Pollination
COS 31 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
WK 26 - Conservation in the 21st Century: Saving Species and Ecosystems from Climate Change by Translocation to New, More Climatically Suitable Regions
WK 27 - Writing a "Teaching Philosophy" Statement: Models and Suggestions
WK 28 - Extending Your Research into Policy and Adult Education: Two for the Price of One
WK 29 - How to Write a Scientific Publication
Ecosystems Editorial Board Mtg
ESA Human Ecology-New Section Business Mtg (Open to All Interested Attendees)
ESA Long Term Research Studies Business Mtg
ESA Microbial Ecology Section Business Mtg
ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon
ESA Public Affairs Committee Mtg
ESA SEEDS Chapter Program Brown Bag
ESA Southwestern Chapter Inaugural Business Mtg
ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Mtg
ESA Urban Ecology Section
Forest Service Emerging Issues/Long Term Research and Experimental Forests
GLBT Brown Bag Lunch
Resources for Ecology Education * Fair & Share (REEFS)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ecology Brown Bag Lunch

12:00 PM-1:30 PM
ESA Student Section Pizza Business Mtg

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
SYMP 7 - Ecological Processes Across the Salinity Divide: Contrasts and Comparisons in Marine and Great Lakes Ecosystems
SYMP 8 - Tracking Ecological Change: Using Large-Scale, Long-Term Datasets
SYMP 9 - Linking Scientists With Non-Traditional Public Audiences to Enhance Ecological Thought
OOS 8 - Size and Reproduction in Plant Populations
OOS 9 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building Upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda
OOS 10 - Linkages Between Ecosystem Disturbance and Exotic Species Invasions in Forested Ecosystems
OOS 11 - Frontiers in the Ecology of Plant-Fungal Interactions
COS 32 - Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic, and Boreal Systems
COS 33 - Behavior: Migration and Movement
COS 34 - Biogeochemistry of Aquatic Systems and Nutrient Cycling I
COS 35 - Climate Change and Carbon I
COS 36 - Community Ecology: Experiments and Disturbance
COS 37 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity
COS 38 - In The Classroom: Kindergarten through Graduate II
COS 39 - Interspecific Competition
COS 40 - Invasion: Community Effects II
COS 41 - Life History Theory and Evolution
COS 42 - Modeling II
COS 43 - Niche Relationships and Theory
COS 44 - Soil Processes and Development
COS 45 - Species Interactions
COS 46 - Wetlands

2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Ecology Letters Editorial Board Mtg

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 17 - Biological Control
PS 18 - Community Pattern and Dynamics
PS 19 - Evolution
PS 20 - Evolution: Life History Theory
PS 21 - Forest Management
PS 22 - Invasion
PS 23 - Invasion: Community Effects
PS 24 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes
PS 25 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes
PS 26 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity
PS 27 - Invasion: Prevention and Management
PS 28 - Microbial Ecology
PS 29 - Modeling and Statistics
PS 30 - Physiological Ecology
PS 31 - Soil Ecology
PS 32 - Spatial Scale and Scaling
PS 33 - Species Interactions
Musicians Central

6:30 PM-7:30 PM
Oecologia Editorial Board Social Hour

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Ecology Letters Drinks Reception (Invitation only)
ESA Agroecology, Applied Ecology, Long-Term Studies, and Rangeland Section Business Mtg and Mixer
ESA Asian Ecology Mixer
ESA Canada Chapter Business Mtg and Mixer
ESA Donor Reception
ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting
ESA Education Section Business Mtg/Mixer
ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer and Business Mtg
ESA Statistical Ecology Section--Mixer/Business Mtg
New Reception: LTER Student Mixer
University of Michigan SNRE and EEEB Alumni and Friends Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 13 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda
SS 14 - NSF Undergraduate Education Session - CANCELLED
SS 15 - Projects Linking Science Research and the Community: Examples and Ideas
SS 16 - How to Get and Keep a Job at a Small College
SS 17 - Linking Research and Education In and Beyond Our National Parks
WK 30 - Encyclopedia of Earth: A New Publishing Model for Outreach by Ecologists