Tuesday, August 3, 2010

7:00 AM-8:00 AM
ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Meeting
ESA Graduate Students and Post Doc Roundtable with ESA Leadership
ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Business Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Board of Professional Certification
ESA Meetings Committee Meeting
SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
SYMP 4 - Environmental Impacts of MountainTop Removal-Valley Fill Coal Mining
SYMP 5 - Contributions of Citizen Science to Our Understanding of Ecological Responses to Climate Change
SYMP 6 - Extreme Climatic Events: Perspectives on their Ecological Role and Approaches for Future Research
OOS 8 - Mechanisms of Resilience in Ecological and Socioecological Systems
OOS 9 - Spatial Food Web Ecology: Toward a Mechanistic Landscape Ecology
OOS 10 - Ecosystem Changes: Connecting Long-Term Vegetation Studies with USNVC
OOS 11 - Vegetation Dynamics, Structures and Traits of the Midwestern Oak-Savannas Under Changing Environment
OOS 12 - Rooftop Ecology: What Is a Green Roof and Why Should Ecologists Care?
OOS 13 - Forecasting Ecosystem Responses to Elevated CO2: Confronting Models with Long-Term CO2 Enrichment Experiment
OOS 14 - Ecology Education in 2020 -- Integrating New Technologies with Mother Nature
COS 16 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change II
COS 17 - Climate Change: Ranges and Phenology
COS 18 - Paleoecology
COS 19 - Agroecology/Agroforestry
COS 20 - Ecosystem Function
COS 21 - Restoration Ecology II
COS 22 - Sustainability
COS 23 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity
COS 24 - Biogeography and Macroecology
COS 25 - Invasion: Community Effects
COS 26 - Stable Isotope Applications & Genetic and Molecular Techniques
COS 27 - Herbivory
COS 28 - Modeling I
COS 29 - GPS and Telemetry & Distributions and Range Limits
COS 30 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory II

9:30 AM-3:00 PM
FT 11 - Steel City to Green City

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
WK 19 - Natural Areas...from Napkin Sketches to Built Environment
WK 20 - In Full Bloom: Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Align Class Learning Objectives and Assessments in Introductory Biology
WK 21 - Science and Citizens: a Workshop on Citizen Participation in Complex Social and Environmental Governance
WK 22 - Arriving, Surviving, and Thriving as an Ecological Educator/Scientist at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution
WK 23 - Seeds Campus Ecology Chapter Workshop: Sweeping the Nation with Hope!
WK 24 - Environmental Justice Education and Community Partnerships  Addressing Global Warming and Planetary Stewardship
Brown Bag Lunch Highlighting the New ESA On-line Journal Ecosphere
ESA Agroecology Section Business Meeting
ESA Human Ecology Inaugural Business Meeting
ESA Natural History Business Meeting
ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon
ESA Student Section Choice Award Ceremony
GLBT Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch
Hiram College Brown Bag Lunch
USA National Phenology Network

11:45 AM-1:00 PM
FT 12 - Green Convention Center in Action

12:00 PM-1:00 PM
ESA Paleoecology Section Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
SYMP 7 - Does Biology (physiology, ecology, evolution) Matter in Predicting How S+pecies’ Distributions Will Respond to Climate Change?
SYMP 8 - Ecosystem Threshold Responses to Global Warming: Key Dynamics and Management and Policy Implications
SYMP 9 - Urban Ecosystems as Socio-Ecological Centers of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
OOS 15 - Toward a Traits-Based Understanding of Coexistence Under Competition for Light in Forest Communities: Combining Demography and Functional Ecology
OOS 16 - Global Change and Alpine Ecosystems: the Experience So Far and Looking Ahead
OOS 17 - Engaging Underrepresented Audiences in the Study of Continental Scale Ecological Change
OOS 18 - Citizen Science to Remote Sensing: Emerging Programs and Methods for Establishing Broad-Scale Phenological Monitoring
OOS 19 - Gaps In Predicting Vegetation Change - Physiological and Genetic Variation And Extreme Events
OOS 20 - The Role of Student Research in Long-Term Studies: Insights into Climate Change and Disturbance Theory
OOS 21 - Climate Change and Biotic Interactions: When and Where Do They Matter
OOS 22 - Ecosystem Changes: Connecting Long-Term Vegetation Studies with Vegetation Classification (part 2)
COS 31 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change III
COS 32 - Detritus and Decomposition
COS 33 - Climate Change: Plants I
COS 34 - Biodiversity
COS 35 - Restoration Ecology III
COS 36 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry
COS 37 - Photosynthesis and Gas Exchange Measurement & Rhizosphere and Root Function
COS 38 - Soil Ecology
COS 39 - Amphibian Decline and Chytridiomycosis
COS 40 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes
COS 41 - Mutualism and Facilitation
COS 42 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions
COS 43 - Population Dynamics: Metapopulations
COS 44 - Community Disturbance and Recovery I

4:00 PM-7:00 PM
FT 13 - Hiking Highland Park

4:30 PM-6:30 PM
PS 24 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions
PS 25 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects
PS 26 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients
PS 27 - Biogeochemistry: C and N Cycling in Response to Global Change
PS 28 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects on Biogeo Processes
PS 29 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure and Ecosystem Function
PS 30 - Ecosystem Function
PS 31 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity
PS 32 - Detritus and Decomposition
PS 33 - Soil Ecology
PS 34 - Soil Processes and Development
PS 35 - Rhizophere and Root Function
PS 36 - Marine Systems
PS 37 - Aquatic Ecology
PS 38 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages
PS 39 - Coastal Habitats
PS 40 - Wetland Systems
PS 41 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats
PS 42 - Ecoinformatics
PS 43 - Genetics and Molecular Techniques
PS 44 - Evolution
PS 45 - Biodiversity
PS 46 - Grasslands/Steppe
PS 47 - Stable Isotope Applications
PS 48 - Statistics
OPS 3 - Interacting with the National Vegetation Classification – A Window on the Ecological Landscape of the United States.
OPS 4 - EcoEd Digital Library: A Showcase of Ecology Resources for Education

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Musicians Central

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Ecology Letters Drink Reception (by invitation only)
ESA Asian Ecology Business Meeting and Mixer
ESA Biogeosciences Mixer
ESA Canada Chapter Business Meeting
ESA Ecological Applications Business Meeting
ESA Education Section Mixer
ESA Fund for the Future Reception (by invitation only)
ESA Joint Mixer: Applied Ecology, Urban Ecosystems, Long-term Studies, Agroecology, and Environmental Justice Sections
ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer
ESA Statistical Ecology Business Meeting and Mixer
University of Michigan Ecology Mixer: School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
USGS Meet and Greet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 14 - Implementing Ecosystem Stewardship at the Local Level
SS 15 - CANCELLED - From Global Warming to a Renewed Relationship with Nature and Culture
SS 16 - Learn How to Publish in EcoEd DL, ESA’s Digital Teaching Library!
SS 17 - Public Participation in Research (e.g., Citizen Science) and Ecological Literacy: Meeting the Challenges in Times of Rapid Climate Change.
SS 18 - Understanding Threshold Changes and Regime Shifts under Climate Change: How Can Managers Respond?
WK 25 - Teaching Global Climate Change:  Meeting the Challenges of Information Conveyance while Promoting Innovative Thinking
WK 26 - An Introduction to Special Project Grant Writing for Student Organizations.
WK 27 - Addressing Global Warming Challenges in Drylands:  Integrating Ecophysiological Mechanisms with Ecohydrological Feedbacks
WK 28 - Promoting Ecological Literacy and Climate Literacy: Successful Strategies for Public Participation in Scientific Research
WK 29 - Careers in Ecology: Advice from Professionals in the Field