Monday, August 2, 2010

7:00 AM-8:00 AM SEEDS Breakfast 7:00 AM-9:00 AM ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting 8:00 AM-10:00 AM ESA Plenary 2: Opening Scientific Plenary and Awards Ceremony: Innocence lost: Will ecologists become the future global carbon cops? 10:15 AM-11:30 AM SS 1 - Industry and the Environment in the 21st Century SS 2 - Ecoinformatics: Informing Decisions with Ecological Knowledge SS 3 - Meet the Press: Talking Ecology with the Media SS 4 - Connecting Ecological Science and Stewardship in Global Rangelands: What are the Barriers and Opportunities? SS 5 - Anthropogenic Landscape Transformations and Infectious Disease Dynamics SS 6 - Resources for Ecology Education: Fair and Share (REEFS) SS 7 - Sense of Place:  From Local to Global Stewardship SS 8 - Educating Interdisciplinary Leaders for the New Green Economy 11:30 AM-1:15 PM WK 14 - Engaging the Masses: Meeting the Challenges of Large Intro Courses WK 15 - Writing a 'Teaching Philosophy' Statement -  Models and Suggestions WK 16 - CANCELLED - The Road Ahead for REDD: An Interactive Discussion on Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change. ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon (by invitation only) ESA Mexico Chapter Business Meeting ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting ESA Rangeland Ecology Secton Business Meeting ESA Science Committee Business Meeting ESA Southwest Chapter Business Meeting ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation 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 - All You Need to Know is... : Advice from Theorists on Managing Ecosystems in a Changing Climate SYMP 2 - Where's the Carbon? Increasing Public Understanding of Global Warming with Improved College Science Education SYMP 3 - Environmental Scientists as Effective Advocates: Above the Din but in the Fray OOS 1 - Food Webs and Climate Change OOS 2 - Another Challenge to Eastern Forests of North America:  Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Climate Change, and the Loss of Hemlock OOS 3 - Communicating the Ecology and Justice Dimensions of Climate Change to Diverse Audiences: Educational Opportunities and Challenges OOS 4 - Modeling and Managing Forest Impacts from Climate Change: An Integrated Landscape Approach OOS 5 - Long-term Warming Experiment: What We Have Learned and What is Unknown OOS 6 - Effects of Global Warming in Tropical Montane Systems OOS 7 - Managing Impacts of Ungulate Herbivory in Forest Landscapes: New Lessons and Opportunities COS 1 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change I COS 2 - Climate Change COS 3 - Effects of Multiple Global Changes on Communities and Ecosystems COS 4 - Agriculture COS 5 - Behavior COS 6 - Ecosystem Ecology COS 7 - Education: Pedagogy, Cognition, and Learning COS 8 - Restoration Ecology I COS 9 - Ecological Impacts on Human Populations & Biofuel Ecology COS 10 - Fire COS 11 - Invasion COS 12 - Disease and Epidemiology I COS 13 - Population Dynamics and Regulation COS 14 - Food Webs COS 15 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory I 4:00 PM-7:00 PM FT 10 - Hiking Frick Park 4:30 PM-6:30 PM PS 1 - Education: Community-Based Learning PS 2 - Education: Pedagogy PS 3 - Education: Research and Assessment PS 4 - Climate Change PS 5 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles PS 6 - Climate Change: Plants PS 7 - Climate Modeling PS 8 - Paleoecology PS 9 - Phenology PS 10 - Photosynthesis and Gas Exchange Measurement PS 11 - Competition PS 12 - Disease and Epidemiology PS 13 - Herbivory PS 14 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses PS 15 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions PS 16 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions PS 17 - Plant-Insect Interactions PS 18 - Pollination PS 19 - Species Interactions PS 20 - History of Ecology PS 21 - Mycorrhizae PS 22 - Agroecosystems PS 23 - Biological Control OPS 1 - Phenology as a Tool for Understanding and Interpreting Interactive Effects of Environmental Forcing on Natural Ecological Systems OPS 2 - Engaging Undergraduate Students in Ecological Investigations Using Large, Public Datasets 5:00 PM-5:45 PM ESA Award Recipients' Reception (by invitation only) 5:00 PM-6:30 PM ESA Musicians Central 6:30 PM-8:00 PM Christian Ecologists Social ESA Aquatic 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 OTS All Tropical Biology Mixer Utah State University Ecologists Mixer 7:30 PM-10:00 PM Annual Oecologia Editorial Board Meeting 8:00 PM-10:00 PM SS 9 - What Will Ecology Education Look Like in 2020? SS 10 - Actuating Large-Scale, Integrated, Global-Change Research beyond Concept to Implementation: Lessons from the Terrestrial Wetland Global Change Research Network SS 11 - Warfare Ecology: A Continuing Conversation SS 12 - Long-Term Legacy Data in the Ecotrends Project: Historical Context and Clues to Future Dynamics Under Global Change SS 13 - Hope in a Changing Climate WK 17 - Got Broader Impacts? How the Research Ambassador Program Can Turn Outreach from Burden to Benefit WK 18 - Emerald Ash Borer in the Classroom: Invasive Pest an Opportunity for Citizen Science