Wednesday, August 4, 2010

7:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Development Committee Meeting
ESA Meetings Committee Meeting
ESA Publications Committee Meeting

8:00 AM-9:00 AM
ESA Education and Human Resources Committee

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
SYMP 10 - Planetary Stewardship and the MAHB
SYMP 11 - Ecological Responses to Abrupt Climate Changes: Looking Back to See Ahead
SYMP 12 - ENSO in the Galapagos: A Model System for Studying Ecological Effects of Climate Change in the Ocean
OOS 23 - Reclamation and Reforestation of Mined Land
OOS 24 - Linking People, Nature, and Water Together through Restoration: Applications and Lessons learned in Wetland Restoration, in the Mid-Atlantic United States
OOS 25 - Extending Dynamic Food Web Models to Address Environmental Problems
OOS 26 - The Effects of Abiotic, Biotic and Human Influences on Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Across Varied Environments.
OOS 27 - Invasive Species and Climate Change:  Challenges and Opportunities in a Warmer World
OOS 28 - Management Effects on Ecosystem Services in the Face of Environmental Variability.
OOS 29 - Long-term Research on Ecological Dynamics from Local Through Global Scales: Insights from the NSF LTREB Program
COS 45 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects on Biogeo Processes
COS 46 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients
COS 47 - Climate Change: Plants II
COS 48 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams and Rivers
COS 49 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I
COS 50 - Land-Use and Land-Use History
COS 51 - Conservation Ecology & Ecosystem Management
COS 52 - Microbial Ecology
COS 53 - Reptiles and Amphibians
COS 54 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity
COS 55 - Competition
COS 56 - Disease and Epidemiology II
COS 57 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses
COS 58 - Dispersal and Colonization
COS 59 - GIS, Spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing

8:00 AM-5:00 PM
ESA Vegetation Classification Panel

11:30 AM-12:00 PM
ESA Presider/AV Training

11:30 AM-1:15 PM
ESA Environmental Justice Business Meeting
ESA Southeast Chapter Business Meeting
ESA Student Section Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM
ESA Researchers at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Business Meeting
ESA Urban Ecosystems Ecology Section Business Meeting

12:15 PM-1:15 PM
ESA Plenary 3: Recent Advances Lecture: Energy, the Environment, and the Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
SYMP 13 - The Gate-Keepers in a Changing World: Integrating Microbial Diversity with Global Change Biology
SYMP 14 - A Celebration and Exploration of Joseph H. Connell’s Conceptual and Empirical Influence, Inspiration, and Legacy in Ecological Research and Education
SYMP 15 - Climate and Justice: Exploring Equity through Land, Water and Culture
OOS 30 - Reconstruction of Climate, Fire, and Forest Dynamics in Eastern North America via Dendroecology; Gleaning New Perspective from Ancient Trees
OOS 31 - From Microbial to Conservation Biology: Exploring Phylogenetic Beta Diversity as a Theoretical Tool Uniting Disciplines
OOS 32 - Landscape and Ecoregional Approaches to Protecting Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
OOS 33 - Climate and its Impact on Avian Abundance over Large Geographic Areas and Different Time Scales:  Insights from Terrestrial and Marine Realms
OOS 34 - What is the Fate of Tropical Forests Under Climate Change?  Integrating Remote Sensing, Micro-Meteorology, Forest Plots, and Ecological Models
OOS 35 - Soil Moisture as an Integrating Factor Determining Grassland/Old Field Responses to Global Warming
OOS 36 - The Evolving Role of Ecologists in the Development of Environmental Public Policy
OOS 37 - Vulnerability and Resilience of Ecosystem Carbon and Biodiversity to Climate Change and Deforestation in the Asia-Pacific Region
COS 60 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions
COS 61 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles
COS 62 - Climate Change: Plants III
COS 63 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes and Ponds
COS 64 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II
COS 65 - Education: Research and Assessment
COS 66 - Ecosystem Services Assessment
COS 67 - Forests I
COS 68 - Environmental Gradients
COS 69 - Invasion: Prevention and Management
COS 70 - Plant-Insect Interactions
COS 71 - Mycorrhizae
COS 72 - Evolutionary Ecology & Phenotypic Plasticity
COS 73 - Population Biology and Dynamics
COS 74 - Community Disturbance and Recovery II
COS 75 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions I

4:00 PM-7:00 PM
FT 14 - Hiking Riverview Park

4:30 PM-6:30 PM
PS 49 - Community Disturbance and Recovery
PS 50 - Community Pattern and Dynamics
PS 51 - Food Webs
PS 52 - Fire
PS 53 - Fire Management
PS 54 - Forests
PS 55 - Forest Management
PS 56 - Conservation Ecology
PS 57 - Conservation Management
PS 58 - Ecosystem Management
PS 59 - Ecosystem Services Assessment
PS 60 - Restoration Ecology
PS 61 - Land-Use and Land-Use History
PS 62 - Sustainability
PS 63 - Urban Ecology
PS 64 - Urban Ecosystems
OPS 5 - Improving Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty in Ecology:  A Focus on NSF-Funded ADVANCE Programs

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
ESA Musicians Central

6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Colorado State University Ecologists Mixer
ESA Diversity Mixer
ESA Physiological Ecology Section Mixer and Business Meeting
ESA Plant Population Biology Business Meeting and Mixer
ESA South American Chapter Business Meeting
NEON Meet and Greet
UC Davis, Ecology Graduate Group Mixer

7:00 PM-10:00 PM
WK 30 - An Evening of Music: Live Performance by ESA Musicians

8:00 PM-10:00 PM
SS 19 - Water Resource Management, Ecological Engineering, and Ecosystem Services
SS 20 - Micro-Managing the Planet: The Role of Microbial Ecology in Planetary Stewardship
SS 21 - CANCELLED - Given That the Climate Is Changing, How Do We Know We're Doing the Right Research?
SS 22 - Collaborative Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Developing the Ecological Research/Education Network (EREN) for PUIs
SS 23 - Using Best Science to Educate a Public Confused about Global Climate Change
WK 31 - Drought, Water-Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Justice: Case Studies and Research Needs in a Changing World
WK 32 - Defining Norms and Best Practices for Science-Based Environmental Advocacy
WK 33 - Show Me the Money: How to Write Successful Student Grant Proposals
ESA Section and Chapter Website Development Training Session
Harvard Forest Business Meeting
SEEDS Fellowship Meeting