94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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7:00 AM-5:30 PM

FT 2 - Life in the Twilight Zone: Lava Tube Ecology, El Malpais National Monument, NM, USA

7:00 AM-7:00 PM

FT 1 - Los Alamos and the Jemez Mountains: Ecology and History

7:30 AM-11:30 PM

FT 3 - CANCELLED - The Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Journey): A History of Long-Term Research in a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

FT 4 - Global Change Experiments at the Sevilleta LTER

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 1 - Ecological Risk Assessment Methods for Arid Environments

WK 2 - The New National Vegetation Classification Standard: An Introduction to the System with Field Applications and Training (2 day workshop with day 2 being a field trip)

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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7:00 AM-5:00 PM

FT 5 - Field Trip to Consider Ecological Aspects of the Northern Jornada Del Muerto Grasslands and Ecotones with Mockingbird Mountain and the Oscura Mountains on White Sands Missile Range, Socorro County, New Mexico

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

FT 8 - Manzanos Raptor Viewing Field Trip with HawkWatch International

WK 3 - An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling

8:00 AM-4:30 PM

WK 4 - Restoring and Sustaining Western Landscapes: Interaction with Climate Change

WK 5 - Using Continental Scale Data to Teach Undergraduate Ecology

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

FT 7 - CANCELLED - Sevilleta LTER and Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

FT 9 - Riparian Restoration Efforts on the Bosque del Apache NWR and along the Rio Grande of Central New Mexico

WK 6 - A Brief Introduction to Bayesian and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Ecology

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

FT 6 - Ecology in Agriculture of Pueblo and Acequia Communities

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

WK 7 - A New Approach to Population Models: Sensitivity Analysis via Matrix Calculus

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

FT 10 - SEEDS Education Outreach Initiative - "BioBlitz" at the Albuquerque Bosque Ecosystem

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

WK 8 - Innovative Teaching and Assessment: Adapting Resources for Your Classroom

WK 9 - CANCELLED - AD Model Builder: A Free Tool for Parameter Estimation of Complex Nonlinear Statistical Models

8:30 AM-8:00 PM

FT 11 - Forest Restoration, Fire, and Water: Ecology of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico Rental

9:00 AM-1:00 PM

WK 10 - The Self-Identity of Ecological and Social-Ecological Systems: A Tool to Assess Resilience, System Functioning, and Other Sustainability Goals

9:00 AM-3:00 PM

FT 12 - Field Trip to Jemez Pueblo to Observe Corn Dances

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

- Novel Ecosystems and Climate Change: Developing a Research Agenda (By Invitation Only)

WK 11 - A Beginner's Course in Typesetting Scientific Manuscripts with Lateχ

WK 12 - INVITED PARTICIPANTS ONLY: Using Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQCs) to Improve Introductory Ecology and Biology Teaching

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

- ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

WK 13 - Mentoring for Success

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 14 - Estimating Uncertainty in Ecosystem Budgets

1:00 PM-6:00 PM

WK 15 - Are Invasive Species Different?

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

- ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

- ESA Presider/AV Training

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- ESA Opening Plenary 1: Strategies to Sustain Earth's Freshwater Ecosystems

Monday, August 3, 2009

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- SEEDS Breakfast

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

- EcoEd Digital Library Editorial Committee Business 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

- 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

WK 16 - Exploring the Places We Live: Citizen Scientists

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Graduate Students and Post-Doc Roundtable with ESA Leadership

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Meeting

- ESA Professional Certification Board Meeting

- SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 17 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet

COS 18 - Biodiversity: Traits and Interactions

COS 19 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions

COS 20 - Chihuahuan Desert

COS 21 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles

COS 22 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Spatial Patterns

COS 23 - Conservation Ecology

COS 24 - Detritus and Decomposition

COS 25 - Distributions and Range Limits

COS 26 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation and Phenotypic Plasticity

COS 27 - Forest Management

COS 28 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity I

COS 29 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses I

COS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes

COS 31 - Plant-Insect Interactions

COS 32 - Wetlands

OOS 8 - Ecological Condition, Ecosystem Services and Human Well Being

OOS 9 - Indicators of Regime Shifts in Ecological Systems

OOS 10 - Ecological Research on Defense and Other Federal Lands

OOS 11 - Physical-Ecological Linkages and Habitat Dynamics in Abandoned River Channels: Implications for River Corridor Management and Conservation

OOS 12 - What's New Under the Sun? Photodegradation and Novel Drivers of Decompostion in Dryland Ecosystems

OOS 13 - The Public Trust Doctrine: Where Ecology Meets Natural Resources Management

OOS 14 - Species Interactions and Communities in the Context of Relatedness (1 of 2)

SYMP 4 - "Declaring Interdependence": Concerned Ecological Thinkers of the Past

SYMP 5 - Global Sustainability in the Face of Uncertainty: How to More Effectively Translate Ecological Knowledge to Policy Makers, Managers, and the Public

SYMP 6 - Mutualistic Networks

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

FT 13 - Songs Sustaining Seeds: Santo Domingo Pueblo Harvest Dance

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Human Ecology Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Long-Term Studies Section Business Meeting

- ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon

- ESA Science Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Southwest Chapter Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Student Section Business Meeting

- Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting

- GLBT Brown Bag Lunch

- Phenology Brown Bag Lunch

WK 19 - Federal Extramural Funding Opportunities in the Ecological Sciences

WK 20 - Models of Effective Research at Undergraduate Institutions

WK 21 - Writing a "Teaching Philosophy" Statement: Models and Suggestions

WK 22 - Environmental Justice in Ecology Curricula and Community Engagement

WK 23 - 100 Views of Climate Change: How to Build a Cross-Campus Conversation

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

- ESA Paleoecology Section Business Meeting

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 33 - Abundance, Rarity, and Population Estimation

COS 34 - Agroecology, Agroforestry, and Biofuels I

COS 35 - Behavior: Migration and Movement I

COS 36 - Biodiversity: Effects of Global Change

COS 37 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

COS 38 - Climate Change: Plants I

COS 39 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Forests

COS 40 - Education: Research and Assessment

COS 41 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation - Interactions

COS 42 - Grasslands/Steppe

COS 43 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity II

COS 44 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses II

COS 45 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

COS 46 - Land-Use and Land-Use History

COS 47 - Physiology: Plant Respiration and Transpiration I

COS 48 - Theoretical Ecology

OOS 15 - Special Series on Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (1 of 3): Response of CBCs to Experimental Manipulations from the Plot- to Whole Ecosystem Scale

OOS 16 - Linking data and theory in dendritic ecological networks: From ecological processes to rapid understanding

OOS 17 - US National Vegetation Classification as a Tool for Sustainable Environmental Management and Conservation

OOS 18 - Sustaining Freshwater Ecosystem Services: Adaptive Ecological and Social Responses to Climatic Changes

OOS 19 - Analytical Methods in Phenology: Causes and Consequences of Phenological Variation Across Scales

OOS 20 - Species Interactions and Communities in the Context of Relatedness (2 of 2)

OOS 21 - Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Urban Regions for Advancing Ecology, Conservation and Education

SYMP 7 - Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Should Ecologists Care?

SYMP 8 - Human Macroecology: Understanding Human-Environment Interactions Across Scales

SYMP 9 - From Genes to Watersheds: Developing a Post-Contemporary Agriculture (1888-2058)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

- Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 22 - Aquatic Ecology

PS 23 - Biological Control

PS 24 - Birds

PS 25 - Environmental Gradients

PS 26 - Fire

PS 27 - Grasslands/Steppe

PS 28 - Invasion

PS 29 - Invasion: Community Effects

PS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes

PS 31 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

PS 32 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity

PS 33 - Invasion: Models

PS 34 - Invasion: Prevention and Management

PS 35 - Invasion: Species Interactions

PS 36 - Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 37 - Pollination

PS 38 - Remote Sensing and Image Analysis

PS 39 - Rhizophere and Root Function

PS 40 - Spatial Analysis and GIS

PS 41 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

- Musicians Central

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- ESA Applied Ecology, Rangeland Ecology, Agroecology, and Long-Term Studies Section Mixer

- ESA Asian Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Canada Chapter Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Donor Reception (Invitation Only)

- ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Education Section Business Meeting

- ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Statistical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- Ecology Letters Drinks Reception

- Michigan Ecology Mixer hosted by University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and School of Natural Resources and Environment

- OTS Tropical Biology Mixer

- Oecologia Editorial Board Annual Meeting

- USGS Meet and Greet

- Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Alumni

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

- ESA Eco-Art Student Choice Awards

SS 13 - Islands of Sorrow, Islands of Hope: Resilience and Sustainability in Island Social-Ecological Systems

SS 14 - Meet the Press: Talking Ecology with the Media

SS 15 - Big Models in Ecology: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Are All Possible Outcomes

SS 16 - Application of National Vegetation Classification for Management and Conservation

SS 17 - Natural Resources and Climate Change: Effects and Adaptation

WK 24 - Los Angeles' Rivers System: Ecological Desert or Vast Research Laboratory?

WK 25 - Learn How to Publish in EcoEd DL, ESA's Digital Teaching Library

WK 26 - Death Wish or Golden Parachute: A Discussion of Interdisciplinary Research in Ecology and Education and Making it Work for your Dissertation

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Development Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Meeting

- ESA Publications Committee Meeting

7:00 AM-11:00 AM

FT 14 - Exploring the Urban Gradient of Albuquerque

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Business Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 49 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes and Ponds

COS 50 - Behavior: Migration and Movement II

COS 51 - Biodiversity: Patterns

COS 52 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients I

COS 53 - Climate Change: Plants II

COS 54 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory I

COS 55 - Competition: Interspecific

COS 56 - Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment

COS 57 - Evolutionary Ecology

COS 58 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity

COS 59 - Modeling: Case Studies

COS 60 - Mutualism and Facilitation

COS 61 - Physiology: Plant Respiration and Transpiration II

COS 62 - Population Biology

COS 63 - Population Dynamics: Metapopulations

COS 64 - Restoration Ecology I

COS 65 - Species Interactions I

OOS 22 - Providing Ecological Knowledge to High Schools and Professional Organizations

OOS 23 - Your Big Backyard Ecosystem: Lawns and Gardens as Foci for Understanding Urban Ecology and Sustainability

OOS 24 - Integrating Science and Policy for Watershed Sustainability: Balancing Hydrological Services, Quality of Life, and Economic Vitality

OOS 25 - Ecological Knowledge to Enhance Stewardship and Restoration of Sagebrush Steppe Communities

OOS 26 - Special Series on Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (2 of 3): Interactions Between CBC and Large-Scale Variations in Climate

SYMP 10 - The Rainforest Within: Biodiversity of the Human Body and its Relationship to Health and Disease

SYMP 11 - The Interplay of Ecology and Evolution at 'Micro' and 'Macro' Scales: Empirically-Motivated Theory

SYMP 12 - Managed Relocation (aka Assisted Migration): An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of a Newly Proposed Conservation Strategy

8:00 AM-2:00 PM

- ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification

8:30 AM-3:30 PM

FT 15 - Sandia Peak Tramway

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

- ESA Presider/AV Training

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Environmental Justice Section Business Meeting

- ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting

- ESA Southeastern Chapter Brown Bag Lunch

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

- ESA Plenary 3: Recent Advances Lecture: Urban Ecosystem Services: Advances and Uncertainties

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 66 - Amphibian Decline and Chytridiomycosis

COS 67 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients II

COS 68 - Biogeography and Macroecology

COS 69 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory II

COS 70 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

COS 71 - Fire Management

COS 72 - Fisheries Management and Models

COS 73 - Invasion: Prevention and Management

COS 74 - Life History Theory and Evolution

COS 75 - Modeling: General Concepts

COS 76 - Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions

COS 77 - Population Dynamics and Regulation

COS 78 - Restoration Ecology II

COS 79 - Rhizophere and Root Function

COS 80 - Species Interactions II

COS 81 - Woodland/Savanna

OOS 27 - Application of Molecular Knowledge of Microbes to Studies of Ecological Processes: Why the Integration is so Challenging

OOS 28 - Projection Matrix Models: Investigating General Patterns in Plant Demography

OOS 29 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Current Trends and Future Directions

OOS 30 - Forest Sustainability Lessons and Future Directions: Twenty Years of Ecology in the Sierra Nevada

OOS 31 - Evolutionary Ecology of Invertebrate Host-Parasite Interactions

OOS 32 - Special Series on Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (3 of 3): CBCs Over Time and Ecosystem Boundaries

OOS 33 - Natural History: The Basis for Ecological Understanding and a Global Sustainable Society

SYMP 13 - What Should Ecology Education Look Like in the Year 2020?

SYMP 14 - Phenology, the Interdisciplinary Canary: Linkages between Ecology and Sustainable Decision Making in a Dynamic Environment

SYMP 15 - Sustainable Urban Design: What Do Ecologists Have to Offer?

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 1 - NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)

PS 42 - Agricultural Landscapes

PS 43 - Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic systems

PS 44 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

PS 45 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change

PS 46 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure and Ecosystem Function

PS 47 - Coastal, Estuarine, and Marine Habitats

PS 48 - Conservation

PS 49 - Ecoinformatics

PS 50 - Evolution: Genetic Isolation and Differentiation

PS 51 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation

PS 52 - Forest Habitats: Temperate

PS 53 - Forest Habitats: Tropical and Seasonal Tropical

PS 54 - Herbivory

PS 55 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

PS 56 - Paleoecology

PS 57 - Population Dynamics and Regulation

PS 58 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions

PS 59 - Sampling

PS 60 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

- Musicians Central

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- Colorado State University Ecologists Mixer

- ESA Diversity Mixer

- ESA Microbial Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Plant Population Biology Section Mixer

- ESA South American Chapter Inaugural Business Meeting

- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Mixer

- University of California, Davis Mixer

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

- SEEDS Fellowship Meeting

SS 18 - Public Participation in Research (i.e., Citizen Science) and Ecological Literacy: Future Directions

SS 19 - The Schoolyard Children's Book Series: Ecology Stories for Outreach and Education

SS 20 - Photography for Conservation: Exploring How Visual Tools Improve Ecological Research, Literacy, and Sustainability

SS 21 - Alternate Ecology: An Exploration of Ecological Counterfactuals

SS 22 - Scenario-Based Analysis as a Focus for Sustainable Management of Natural Resources on Federal Lands

WK 27 - Special Series on Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles: Panel Discussion and Group Forum

WK 28 - Next Steps Toward a Natural History Renaissance

WK 29 - CANCELLED - Toward an Integrated Understanding of Ecosystem Processes in Urban Grasslands

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Historic Records Business Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 82 - Agroecology, Agroforestry, and Biofuels II

COS 83 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams and Rivers

COS 84 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change I

COS 85 - Climate Change: Ranges and Phenology

COS 86 - Community Disturbance and Recovery I

COS 87 - Conservation Management

COS 88 - Disease and Epidemiology: Interactions

COS 89 - Dispersal and Colonization: Behavior and Disturbance

COS 90 - Education and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

COS 91 - Fire

COS 92 - Food Webs

COS 93 - Invasion: Species Interactions I

COS 94 - Physiological Ecology

COS 95 - Plant-Insect Interactions: Foraging, Diet, and Herbivory

COS 96 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

COS 97 - Seed Production, Dispersal, and Predation

OOS 34 - Disturbance Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Resilience: Three Decades of Inquiry

OOS 35 - Roles of Ecological Science in Combating Global Change and Natural Disasters and Working Toward Sustainability of a Global Society: Lessons from China

OOS 36 - Lidar Measures of Ecosystem Structure: Implications for Biodiversity and Wildlife Habitat Modeling

OOS 37 - Using Citizen Science to Rebuild Ecological Knowledge in Human Communities

OOS 38 - Multifunctionality of Biodiversity

OOS 39 - Integration of Science with Economic Valuation of Semi-Arid Riparian Ecosystems

SYMP 16 - The Ecology of Place: Charting a Course for Understanding the Planet

SYMP 17 - How Does Having a Vector Matter? Perspectives on Vector Biology and Disease Ecology for Prediction and Control of Emerging Infections

SYMP 18 - Paleoecosystem Ecology: Reconstructing Material and Energy Flows of the Past

9:00 AM-1:00 PM

FT 16 - Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP): Long-Term Monitoring of Riparian Sites Above and Below the Albuquerque Drinking Water Project Diversion Dam and Reconstructed Wetlands at a Post-Burn Site

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Agroecology Section Business Meeting

- ESA Diversity Luncheon

- ESA Urban Ecosystems Ecology Brown Bag Lunch

- Issues in Ecology Advisory Board Meeting

- The EM Buzz: we feed you; you help us move Ecological Monographs into the Twittering Age

WK 30 - Preparing Tomorrow’s Ecologists Today: "Reading the Landscape" using the ABCs of Ecology

WK 31 - The USA National Phenology Network: A Practical Tool for Research, Management and Education in the Face of Climate Change

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 98 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

COS 99 - Behavioral Ecology

COS 100 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change II

COS 101 - Climate Change

COS 102 - Community Disturbance and Recovery II

COS 103 - Conservation Planning, Policy, and Theory

COS 104 - Disease and Epidemiology: Modeling

COS 105 - Dispersal and Colonization: Genetics and Invasion

COS 106 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity

COS 107 - Effects of Multiple Global Changes on Communities and Ecosystems

COS 108 - Environmental Gradients

COS 109 - Forest Habitats: Tropical

COS 110 - Invasion: Species Interactions II

COS 111 - Pollination

COS 112 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

COS 113 - Statistics, Sampling, and Methods

OOS 40 - Ecological Insights from Long-Term Research Plots in Tropical and Temperate Forests

OOS 41 - Global Ecology in the 21st Century: Sustaining an Anthropogenic Biosphere

OOS 42 - The Long-Term Response of Ecosystems to Simulated Global Change

OOS 43 - Transcending Tradition to Understand and Model Complex Interactions in Ecology

OOS 44 - Advances in Biochemical Methods for Studying Organic Matter Dynamics in an Ecological Context

OOS 45 - Toward a Sustainable Future for the Middle Rio Grande Ecosystem

SYMP 19 - Integrating Ecology and Poverty Alleviation

SYMP 20 - Models and Microbes as Tools for Understanding Diversity

SYMP 21 - The Environmental Effects of Geoengineering

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

- SEEDS Closing

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 61 - Arid and Semi-Arid Systems

PS 62 - Behavior

PS 63 - Community Disturbance and Recovery

PS 64 - Community Pattern and Dynamics

PS 65 - Competition: Interspecific

PS 66 - Disease and Epidemiology

PS 67 - Dispersal and Colonization

PS 68 - Distributions and Range Limits

PS 69 - Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment

PS 70 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity

PS 71 - Physiology

PS 72 - Physiology: Plant Respiration and Transpiration

PS 73 - Restoration Ecology

PS 74 - Urban Ecosystems

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

- Musicians Central

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

- An Evening in Albuquerque

Friday, August 7, 2009

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7:00 AM-4:00 PM

FT 17 - Valles Caldera National Preserve -- Science-Based Adaptive Management of Public Lands

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 114 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure and Ecosystem Function

COS 115 - Climate Change: Communities

COS 116 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Interactions and Invasions

COS 117 - Disease and Epidemiology: Spread

COS 118 - Ecosystem Function

COS 119 - Global Change Biology

COS 120 - Invasion: Models

COS 121 - Microbial Ecology

COS 122 - Mycorrhizae and Ecosystem Function

COS 123 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions

COS 124 - Physiology

COS 125 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats

COS 126 - Soil

COS 127 - Spatial Analysis and GIS

COS 128 - Stable Isotope Applications

COS 129 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions

OOS 46 - Animal Migration in a Changing Landscape

OOS 47 - Bridging the Divide: Integrating Human Ecology and Ecology to Improve Research and Management

OOS 48 - Effects of Winter Climate Change and Soil Frost on Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems

OOS 49 - Standards, Protocols, and Tools for Sharing Ecological Information: Data Interoperability on a Global Scale

OOS 50 - Using Community and Ecosystem Knowledge to Inform Restoration Goals of Seabird-Dominated Ecosystems

OOS 51 - Ecological, Social, and Economic Benefits of Agroforestry Systems in Rural Communities

SYMP 22 - Agroecology for a Sustainable Future: Cross-Disciplinary Research at Multiple Scales

SYMP 23 - Ecological Knowledge and Campus Sustainability Initiatives

SYMP 24 - Resilient Adaptation to Global Changes

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

PS 75 - Latebreaking: Agricultural Habitats

PS 76 - Latebreaking: Aquatic Ecology

PS 77 - Latebreaking: Behavior

PS 78 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 79 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 80 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 81 - Latebreaking: Community Pattern and Dynamics

PS 82 - Latebreaking: Conservation

PS 83 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Services Assessment

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 85 - Latebreaking: Fire

PS 86 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 89 - Latebreaking: Modeling

PS 90 - Latebreaking: Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 91 - Latebreaking: Physiology

PS 92 - Latebreaking: Population Dynamics

PS 93 - Latebreaking: Restoration Ecology

PS 94 - Latebreaking: Sustainability

PS 95 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecosystems

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

- Braun Student Award Committee Meeting

- Musicians Central

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Closing Lunch

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