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95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Saturday, July 31, 2010

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7:30 AM-5:00 PM


FT 1 - Allegheny River Canoe Float: Tidioute to Tionesta

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

FT 2 - Disturbance Ecology on the Allegheny Plateau--2-Day Overnight Trip

8:30 AM-4:30 PM


WK 1 - Developing and Interpreting Fire Histories From Sediment Charcoal Records

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


FT 3 - Brownfield Blitzers: A Dialog with Inner City Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Using Visual Approaches for Conserving Biodiversity, Engaging Communities, Sharing Knowledge, and Addressing Environmental Justice

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


WK 2 - NASA Tools for Remote-Sensing in Ecology Research

10:30 AM-1:00 PM


- SEEDS student orientation

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


WK 3 - Two Day Workshop--Using the National Vegetation Classification to Classify and Assess the Condition of  Ruderal, Plantation, and Natural Forest and Wetland Types

WK 4 - Public Outreach, Undergraduate Engagement and Professional Networking: How to Write a Science Blog and Why You Should

4:30 PM-6:00 PM


- SEEDS mentor orientation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


- SEEDS dinner

Sunday, August 1, 2010

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7:00 AM-5:00 PM


FT 5 - Management of Fallingwater and Bear Run Nature Reserve, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

7:00 AM-5:30 PM


FT 4 - Lake Pleasant Canoe Trip

7:30 AM-4:30 PM


FT 6 - Youghiogheny River Gorge at Ohiopyle State Park

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

WK 5 - How Ecological Scientists Can Participate in Regional Environmental Policy

8:00 AM-4:30 PM


WK 6 - Analysis of Time-Series Data using State-Space and Hierarchical Modeling

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


FT 7 - Urban Agriculture in Action: Greening Blighted Land and Revitalizing Communities

WK 3 - Two Day Workshop--Using the National Vegetation Classification to Classify and Assess the Condition of  Ruderal, Plantation, and Natural Forest and Wetland Types

WK 7 - A Brief Introduction to Bayesian and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Ecology

WK 8 - Visual Communication of Ecological Knowledge: Photography as a Tool of Style and Substance

8:30 AM-4:30 PM


FT 8 - SEEDS Educational Outreach Initiative: Sharing Ecological Tools for Biodiversity Enhancement with Future Generations

WK 9 - Structural Equation Modeling with Bayesian Methods

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


WK 10 - Learn Latex for Efficient Thesis Writing

WK 11 - Using Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQCs) to Improve Introductory Biology and Ecology Teaching

12:30 PM-4:30 PM


WK 12 - Diversity and Inclusiveness in Ecology

1:00 PM-2:00 PM


- Buell/Braun Judges Meeting

1:00 PM-5:45 PM


FT 9 - Parks, Streams, and Urban Systems: Successes and Challenges in Restoration (Companion to OOS 24 on Wed. Aug. 4, 8 AM to 11:30 PM)

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception

WK 13 - How to Prepare Ecological Data Sets for Effective Analysis and Sharing

3:00 PM-4:00 PM


- Presider/AV Training

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


- ESA Opening Plenary 1: Environmental Disasters In the US: Exploring Our Reactive Mode (Panel Discussion)

Monday, August 2, 2010

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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


- 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

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.

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 - 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

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

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

4:00 PM-7:00 PM


FT 10 - Hiking Frick Park

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


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

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

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

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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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


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

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

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

9:30 AM-3:00 PM


FT 11 - Steel City to Green City

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- 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

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

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


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

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)

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

4:00 PM-7:00 PM


FT 13 - Hiking Highland Park

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


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

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

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


- Musicians Central

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- 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

- Ecology Letters Drink Reception (by invitation only)

- USGS Meet and Greet

- University of Michigan Ecology Mixer: School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

4:00 PM-7:00 PM


FT 14 - Hiking Riverview Park

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 5 - Improving Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty in Ecology:  A Focus on NSF-Funded ADVANCE Programs

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

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


- ESA Section and Chapter Website Development Training Session

- Harvard Forest Business Meeting

- SEEDS Fellowship Meeting

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

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM


- ESA Awards Committee Meeting

- ESA Historic Records Section Business Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 76 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms in Biogeochem Cycling

COS 77 - Climate Change: Communities I

COS 78 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

COS 79 - Behavior: Migration and Movement

COS 80 - Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment

COS 81 - Abundance, Rarity, Diversity Estimation

COS 82 - Forests II

COS 83 - Physiological Ecology

COS 84 - Invasion: Models and Ecosystem Processes

COS 85 - Pollination

COS 86 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions

COS 87 - Evolution: Genetic Isolation and Differentiation

COS 88 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

COS 89 - Community Pattern and Dynamics I

COS 90 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions II

OOS 38 - Ecological Dimensions of Biofuel Production

OOS 39 - Novel Applications of Remote Sensing to Environmental Monitoring under a Changing Climate

OOS 40 - Latitudinal Gradients in Consumer-Resource Interactions: Bridging the Gap Between Pattern and Processes (Part 1 of 2)

OOS 41 - Plant Genotypic and Microbial Controls Over Ecosystem Processes: The Role of Diversity in Modulating Response to Global Change

OOS 42 - Training the Next Generation of Ecologists: How Universities Are Doing It

OOS 43 - Combining Experiments, Process Studies, and Models to Forecast the Future of Ecosystems, Communities, and Populations

SYMP 16 - Towards a General Theory for How Climate Change will affect Infectious Disease

SYMP 17 - Pondering the Future by Peering into the Past: Integrating Paleoecology and Contemporary Research to Predict Grassland and Shrubland Responses to Climate Change

SYMP 18 - Global Warming, Smallholder Agriculture And Environmental Justice: Making Critical Connections

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Diversity Luncheon

- NSF Funding Opportunities

WK 34 - The USA National Phenology Network: A Practical Tool for Research, Management and Education in the Face of Climate Change

WK 35 - CANCELLED - Conservation Easements and Global Climate Change

WK 36 - Fight for what’s Right: Become a Student Leader in Planetary Stewardship

WK 37 - Advancing Planetary Stewardship through Innovative Education and Outreach to Fulfill Broader Impacts Requirements

11:30 AM-2:00 PM


FT 15 - Hiking Schenley Park

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 91 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

COS 92 - Climate Change: Communities II

COS 93 - Global Change Biology

COS 94 - Marine, Riparian, and Floodplain Systems

COS 95 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet

COS 96 - Community-Based Education & Traditional Ecological Knowledge

COS 97 - Conservation Management

COS 98 - Urban Ecology I

COS 99 - Forest Management

COS 100 - Invasion: Species Interactions I

COS 101 - Seed production, Dispersal, and Predation

COS 102 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation

COS 103 - Modeling II

COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

COS 105 - Community Pattern and Dynamics II

COS 106 - Species Interactions I

OOS 44 - Predicting the Present from the Past: Using Historic Datasets to Understand and Predict Climate Change Impacts

OOS 45 - Latitudinal Gradients in Consumer-Resource Interactions: Bridging the Gap between Pattern and Processes (Part 2 of 2).

OOS 46 - Mechanistic Assessments of the Role of Natural Enemies and Negative Frequency Dependence in Facilitating Species Coexistence

OOS 47 - Stressing Out: Ecological Responses of Plants to a Changing Environment

OOS 48 - Causes and Consequences of Individual Variation in Dispersal

OOS 49 - The Role of Microorganisms in the Ecology and Evolution of Tri-Trophic Interactions.

OOS 50 - The Role of Landscape Connectivity in Planning and Implementing Conservation and Restoration Priorities

SYMP 19 - Socioecological Adaptations to Climate Change.

SYMP 20 - Legacy Effects and Material Fluxes:  Climatic and Human Forcings to the Landscape

SYMP 21 - Landscape Planning, Species Ranges, and Climate Change

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 6 - New Directions in an Ancient Ecosystem: Syntheses, Mechanisms, Models, and Applications in Florida Scrub Research

PS 65 - Invasion

PS 66 - Invasion: Community Effects

PS 67 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

PS 68 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

PS 69 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity

PS 70 - Invasion: Prevention and Management

PS 71 - Invasion: Species Interactions

PS 72 - Behavior

PS 73 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet

PS 74 - Population Dynamics

PS 75 - Population Estimation

PS 76 - Distributions and Range Limits

PS 77 - Modeling

PS 78 - Reptiles and Amphibians

PS 79 - Remote Sensing and Image Analysis

PS 80 - Microbial Ecology

PS 81 - Invertebrates

PS 82 - Physiological Ecology

PS 83 - Plant Physiology

PS 84 - Arid and Semi-Arid Systems

PS 85 - Seed Production, Dispersal, and Predation

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


- ESA Musicians Central

6:30 PM-11:00 PM


- Play Ball!!  An Evening with ESA, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Colorado Rockies.

Friday, August 6, 2010

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8:00 AM-10:30 AM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 107 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure and Ecosystem Function

COS 108 - Phenology

COS 109 - Biodiversity: Effects of Global Change

COS 110 - Wetland Systems

COS 111 - Conservation Planning, Policy, and Theory

COS 112 - Urban Ecology II

COS 113 - Forest Habitats: Temperate

COS 114 - Plant Physiology

COS 115 - Invasion: Species Interactions II

COS 116 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions II

COS 117 - Statistics & Landscape Analysis

COS 118 - Life History Theory and Evolution

COS 119 - Modeling: Populations

COS 120 - Niche Relationships and Theory

COS 121 - Community Pattern and Dynamics III

COS 122 - Species Interactions II

OOS 51 - The Invasion Ecology of the Disease:  Understanding the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly and Host-Microbe Dynamics in the Human Body

OOS 52 - Plant Signaling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication

OOS 53 - Beyond the Pavement: Road Network Structure, Use and Ecological Responses in Backcountry Environments

OOS 54 - Garlic Mustard: Lessons Learned from Multiple Dimensions of Ecological Invasion Study

OOS 55 - Wind Energy: A Solution to Global Warming or a Wildlife Disaster?

OOS 56 - Ecological Impacts of Emerald Ash Borer on Forest Ecosystems

OOS 57 - Scaling Genes to Ecosystems: Building the Bridge between Microbial Ecology and Global Processes

SYMP 22 - Alternative Approaches to the Study of Global Warming Effects on Natural Communities

SYMP 23 - Marine Ecosystem Services: Connecting the Dots for Marine Spatial Planning

SYMP 24 - “Revolutionary Ecology: Multidisciplinary and Multimedia approaches to Cooling the Planet”

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


PS 86 - Latebreaking: Agriculture

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Aquatic Ecology

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic Systems

PS 89 - Latebreaking: Arid and Semi-Arid Systems

PS 90 - Latebreaking: Behavior

PS 91 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 92 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 93 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 94 - Latebreaking: Climate Modeling

PS 95 - Latebreaking: Community Assembly and Neutral Theory

PS 96 - Latebreaking: Community Pattern and Dynamics

PS 97 - Latebreaking: Conservation Ecology

PS 98 - Latebreaking: Conservation Management

PS 99 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Function

PS 100 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 101 - Latebreaking: Evolution

PS 102 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 103 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 104 - Latebreaking: Modeling

PS 105 - Latebreaking: Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions

PS 106 - Latebreaking: Physiology

PS 107 - Latebreaking: Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 108 - Latebreaking: Population Dynamics and Regulation

PS 109 - Latebreaking: Restoration Ecology

PS 110 - Latebreaking: Soil Ecology

PS 111 - Latebreaking: Spatial Analysis and GIS

PS 112 - Latebreaking: Sustainability

PS 113 - Latebreaking: Trophic Dynamics and Interactions

PS 114 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecology

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Braun Student Award Committee Meeting

- ESA Musicians Central

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Closing Luncheon

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