Monday, August 3, 2009

7:00 AM-8:00 AM SEEDS Breakfast 7:00 AM-9:00 AM EcoEd Digital Library Editorial Committee Business Meeting ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting 8:00 AM-10:00 AM ESA Plenary 2: Opening Scientific Plenary and Awards Ceremony: Disturbance and Landscape Dynamics in a Changing... 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 11:30 AM-1:15 PM WK 16 - Exploring the Places We Live: Citizen Scientists Business Meeting on New Carbon Cycle Science Plan  for US Funding Agencies ESA Awards Committee Meeting ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon (Invitation Only) ESA Mexico Chapter Business Meeting ESA Past Presidents' Forum Luncheon ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter Business Meeting ESA SEEDS Brown Bag Luncheon ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Business Meeting and Mixer 11:30 AM-6:30 PM ESA Opening of Exhibits 11:45 AM-12:15 PM ESA Presider/AV Training 1:30 PM-5:00 PM SYMP 1 - How Can Soil Microbial Ecology Contribute to the Sustainability of Agricultural Systems? SYMP 2 - Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense Against Insects: Novel Approaches to Classic Questions SYMP 3 - Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities, Locally and Globally OOS 1 - Ecological Contributions to the International Polar Year (IPY): High Latitude Ecosystem Ecology in an Era of Global Change OOS 2 - Developing Ecological Knowledge for Sustainability Science: Representing Adaptive Behavior in Ecological Management Models OOS 3 - Missing Links in the Root-Soil Organic Matter Continuum OOS 4 - Plant Regulation of Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity at Multiple Scales: Recent Advances, Future Directions and Ecological Implications OOS 5 - Forest Canopy Ecology and the Sustainability of Forest Resources OOS 6 - Climate Change Science in Conservation Planning OOS 7 - Pulse of the Planet: Ecologists' Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendations for Global Sustainability - Public Policy Implications COS 1 - Arid and Semi-Arid Systems COS 2 - Biodiversity: Landscape Structure and Environmental Gradients COS 3 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms in Biogeochem Cycling COS 4 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Metacommunities and Competition COS 5 - Education: Community- and Technology-Based Education COS 6 - Functional Ecology and Species-Area Relationships COS 7 - Herbivory COS 8 - Invasion COS 9 - Invasion: Community Effects COS 10 - Landscape Ecology COS 11 - Marine Systems: Intertidal and Reefs COS 12 - Niche Relationships and Theory COS 13 - Paleoecology COS 14 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions COS 15 - Sustainability COS 16 - Urban Ecosystems 5:00 PM-5:45 PM ESA Award Recipients' Reception (Invitation Only) 5:00 PM-6:30 PM PS 1 - NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) PS 2 - Biodiversity PS 3 - Climate Change PS 4 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles PS 5 - Climate Change: Communities PS 6 - Climate Change: Plants PS 7 - Ecosystem Function PS 8 - Education PS 9 - Education: Community-Based Learning PS 10 - Education: Pedagogy PS 11 - Education: Research and Assessment PS 12 - Functional Ecology PS 13 - Global Change Biology PS 14 - Microbial Ecology PS 15 - Modeling PS 16 - Mycorrhizae and Ecosystem Function PS 17 - Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions PS 18 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats PS 19 - Seed Production, Dispersal, and Predation PS 20 - Soil PS 21 - Sustainability 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Musicians Central 6:30 PM-8:00 PM Christian Ecologist Social ESA Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer ESA Biogeosciences Section Mixer ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting ESA Student Section Mixer ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Meeting ESA Vegetation Section and IAVS-NA Business Meeting and Mixer Utah State University Ecologists Mixer 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" WK 17 - Google Earth Software: Applications for Ecological Research WK 18 - Careers in Ecology: Advice from Professionals in the Field