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