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