98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

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6:30 AM-3:30 PM


FT 1 - CANCELLED An Extreme Fire Event in the Border Lakes Region of Northern Minnesota: Ecosystem Impacts and Management Implications of the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire On the Superior National Forest (OVERNIGHT TRIP)

7:00 AM-6:00 PM


FT 2 - CANCELLED University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Land O’Lakes, WI (OVERNIGHT TRIP)

7:30 AM-6:00 PM


FT 3 - Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park: Rare Bluffland Plant Communities of the Paleozoic Plateau

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


WK 1 - CANCELLED - Learning to e-Volve: Networking, Collaboration, Education and Outreach in the Age of Facebook and Twitter

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


WK 2 - Python for Ecologists

WK 3 - Structural Equation Modeling: An Introduction

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


WK 4 - NASA MODIS Remote-Sensing Data Acquisiton and Analysis Tools for Ecology Research

5:00 PM-8:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Student Orientation (SEEDS Students Only)

Sunday, August 4, 2013

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7:45 AM-5:00 PM


FT 4 - SEEDS Education and Outreach Initiative (SEOI) Field Trip

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


WK 5 - Data Visualization Using R

WK 6 - CANCELLED - Developing Research Protocols to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species

WK 7 - Get the Job! Early-Career Professional Development in Networking, Accessing Hidden Career/Job Opportunities, Managing Your Research Reputation, and Partnering with Mentors

WK 8 - Managing Ecological Data for Effective Use and Re-use: A Workshop for Early Career Scientists

WK 9 - Teach Ecological Concepts Through Data Exploration Using Science Pipes

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


FT 5 - CANCELLED Walking in Two Worlds: Combining Traditional Knowledge and Use With Science to Fulfill the Needs of a Tribal Community

WK 10 - A Brief Introduction to Bayesian and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Ecology

WK 11 - Developing Research and Teaching Capacity in the Ecological Sciences at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) (by invitation only)

WK 12 - Software Carpentry for Ecologists

WK 13 - Structural Equation Modeling: Advanced Techniques

WK 14 - Vegetation Databases and the Development of the National Vegetation Classification

8:15 AM-5:00 PM


FT 6 - Native Prairie Communities and Conservation At Minnesota’s Ordway Prairie

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-4:45 PM


FT 7 - CANCELLED Waste Not, Want Not: Fueling Our Future With Biomass

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


FT 8 - CANCELLED Urban Bioblitz in a Riverside Redevelopment Area

8:45 AM-4:30 PM


FT 9 - Biodiversity, Environmental Change and Ecosystem Functioning at the Prairie-Forest Border: The Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

9:15 AM-3:30 PM


FT 10 - CANCELLED Ecology and Stewardship of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Greater Theodore Wirth Park

9:30 AM-3:00 PM


FT 11 - Metro Old-Growth

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


WK 15 - Conducting Open Science Using R and DataONE: A Hands-on Primer (Open Format)

WK 16 - Demography in a Continuous World: New Advances in Integral Projection Models (IPMs)

WK 17 - Exploring Diverse Career Pathways in Ecology

WK 18 - Monitoring the Nation’s Frogs and Toads: Join a Community of FrogWatch USA Volunteers and Chapter Coordinators

WK 19 - Next Generation Ecologists in Global Change Research: Current Status and Future Directions

WK 20 - Participating in Public Policy

WK 21 - Social Media for Scientists (Open Format)

WK 22 - TIEE Author Workshop (CANCELLED)

1:00 PM-2:00 PM


- ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting

1:45 PM-6:00 PM


FT 12 - Bike Trails of Minneapolis (#1 Most Bikeable City in the USA)

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA Governing Council Orientation and Reception

3:00 PM-3:30 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training Session

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Mentor Orientation

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


PL 1 - ESA Opening Plenary Session

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


- ESA Welcome Reception

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Welcome Dinner (By Invitation Only)

Monday, August 5, 2013

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM


- ESA SEEDS Breakfast (SEEDS Students and Mentors only)

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


PL-2 - ESA Scientific Plenary & Awards Session

10:15 AM-11:30 AM


SS 1 - Climate Science Centers: Now Supporting Resource Management With Science at a Location Near You!

SS 2 - Creating Effective Data Management Plans for Ecological Research

SS 3 - Engaging with Business and Industry to Advance Earth Stewardship

SS 4 - Generating a Historical Time Line of 'Earth Stewards' to Inspire Our Future

SS 5 - Managing the World’s Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems - Sustainable Pathways for a Changing World

SS 6 - Resources for Ecology Education: Fair & Share (REEFS)

SS 7 - Sense of Place: Bdote: Mni Sota Makoce (the Minnesota River landscape) as seen by Dakota and Ojibwe artists, elders, and activists

SS 8 - The Current and Future Role of Ecologists as it Relates to Marcellus and Utica Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Research, Policy, and Advocacy.

11:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training Session

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Certification Board Meeting

- ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon

- ESA Past Presidents' Forum (by invitation only)

- ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter and Special Session

- ESA Science Committee Meeting

- ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation

WK 23 - At the Hub: Lessons Learned by Early-career Ecologists in Grassroots Research Networks

WK 24 - Engaging Ecologists in Public Policy: Revisiting ESA Recommendations

WK 25 - Reproducible Research and Collaboration (Open Format)

WK 26 - Teaching Ecology Using Case Studies

WK 27 - Tools for Creating Ecological Metadata: Introduction to Morpho and DataUp

WK 28 - Writing a 'Teaching Philosophy' Statement: Models and Suggestions

11:45 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Rangeland Ecology Section and ESA Southwest Chapter Symposium Development and Business Meeting

- ESA Southwest Chapter and ESA Rangeland Ecology Sections Symposium Development and Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


- ESA Mexican Chapter Annual Business Meeting

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 1 - Agriculture I

COS 2 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

COS 3 - Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

COS 4 - Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change

COS 5 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling I

COS 6 - Cimate Change

COS 7 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory I

COS 8 - Competition

COS 9 - Ecosystem Services Assessment I

COS 10 - Education And Outreach I

COS 11 - GPS And Telemetry

COS 12 - Herbivory I

COS 13 - Invasion I

COS 14 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession

COS 15 - Niche Relationships And Theory

COS 16 - Plant-Insect Interactions I

COS 17 - Theoretical Ecology

OOS 1 - How Does Plasticity In Root Morphology and Physiology Buffer Responses To Changes In Resource Availability?

OOS 2 - Plant Functional Types in Dynamic Vegetation Models for Arctic Ecosystems: Past Experiences, Future Directions

OOS 3 - Plugging Into NEON – A Foundation for Ecological Research At the Continental Scale and Beyond

OOS 4 - Seeing Ecology In Forest Inventories: What National Forest Inventories Can Tell Us About Forest Ecology

OOS 5 - Uncertainty Analysis: A Critical Step in Ecological Synthesis

SYMP 1 - A Guide to Ecology’s Past, Current and Future History: Reflections On a Theme By Robert Mcintosh

SYMP 2 - Disease Ecology in Human-Altered Landscapes

SYMP 3 - The Ecology-Policy Interface: Perspectives on Student Engagement

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 1 - Collaborative Natural Resource Management on Military Lands: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska

PS 1 - Climate Change

PS 2 - Climate Change: Communities

PS 3 - Climate Change: Plants

PS 4 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology

PS 5 - Paleoecology

PS 6 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems

PS 7 - Biogeochemistry

PS 8 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

PS 9 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients

PS 10 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change

PS 11 - Ecosystem Function

PS 12 - Invasion

PS 13 - Invasion: Community Effects

PS 14 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

PS 15 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

PS 16 - Invasion: Prevention And Management

PS 17 - Invasion: Species Interactions

PS 18 - Reptiles And Amphibians

5:00 PM-5:45 PM


- ESA Awards Recipients' Reception (by invitation only)

5:30 PM-7:45 PM


FT 13 - Plant and Animal Phenology Monitoring on the Mississippi River

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- Celebrating 30 Years of ESA Public Affairs

- Christian Ecologists Social

- ESA Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Vegetation Section and IAVS-NA Business Meeting and Mixer

- Utah State University Ecologists Mixer

TK 1 - ESA Student Mixer

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 9 - An Evening of Art and Music

SS 10 - CANCELLED - Building a More Sustainable Upper Mississippi River Social-Ecological System

SS 12 - Organismal Sampling on a Continental Scale:  A Town Hall Discussion of the Terrestrial Soil, Biogeochemical, and Organismal Protocols of the National Ecological Observatory Network.

SS 13 - Research Opportunities with the US Department of Energy-Office of Biological and Environmental Research

SS 14 - Roundtable: Joint Management of Grazing Ungulates and Forest Ecosystems--Advances, Insights, and Future Directions

WK 29 - Scientists’ Got Talent: America’s Next Top Science Communicator

WK 30 - Your Teaching Resource & ESA’s EcoEd Digital Library

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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6:30 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Meeting

7:00 AM-8:00 AM


- ESA Awards Committee Business Meeting

TK 2 - ESA Graduate Students, Post Docs, and Mentor/Mentee Breakfast with ESA Leadership (Mentees/Mentors)

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Meetings Committee Business Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


IGN 1 - Realizing a Resilient Food System

IGN 2 - Sharing Makes Science Better

IGN 3 - Modeling Successful Broader Impacts Programs in Ecology

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 18 - Agriculture II

COS 19 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

COS 20 - Biodiversity I

COS 21 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling II

COS 22 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles

COS 23 - Climate Change: Communities I

COS 24 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory II

COS 25 - Ecosystem Services Assessment II

COS 26 - Forest And Rangeland Management

COS 27 - Herbivory II

COS 28 - Invasion II

COS 29 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

COS 30 - Modeling I

COS 31 - Mutualism And Facilitation

COS 32 - Plant-Insect Interactions II

COS 33 - Statistics

OOS 6 - Climate Change, Drought and Tree Mortality: Pattern, Process, and Prediction

OOS 7 - Doing Justice Through Your Research: Following Your Passion and Creating a Just Society as an Ecologist

OOS 8 - Legacies From Long-Term Ecological Studies: Using The (Recent) Past To Inform Future Research

OOS 9 - Sex-Structured Population Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

OOS 10 - Terrestrial-Aquatic Linkages I: Changing Patterns of Sediment Delivery From Agricultural Watersheds

SYMP 4 - Integrating Soil Biodiversity Into Discussions of Global Sustainability: The Time Is Now

SYMP 5 - Understanding the Past to Shape the Future: A Symposium Honoring the Contribution of Minnesota Ecologists Margaret Davis, Eville Gorham, and Herb Wright

SYMP 6 - Will Educational Technology Fundamentally Transform the Way We Teach Ecology?

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


- ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Agroecology Section Business Meeting and Brown Bag Lunch

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Centennial Implementation Committee Meeting

- ESA Ecosphere Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Human Ecology Section Business Meeting and Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Issues in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting - CANCELLED

- Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) Lunch and Social (EREN Members and Their Guests Only)

- GLBT Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

WK 31 - Beyond Academia (Open Format)

WK 32 - Broadening Ecologists' Impact on the Nation Through NSF Grants

WK 33 - Career Hour: The Interview: What You Need to Do Before, During, and After to Get the Job

WK 34 - ESA-SEEDS Chapter Presentation Workshop

WK 35 - Funding for Ecology from the National Science Foundation: A Discussion with Program Officers

WK 36 - Got data? Visualizing and Manipulating Ecological Data Sets to Support Undergraduate Learning

WK 37 - How to Use Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) in Your Teaching and to Publish in TIEE.

WK 38 - Improv 101: Get Comfortable with Public Speaking

WK 39 - Managing and Innovating the Lifecycle of Your Data

WK 40 - CANCELLED - NEON’s Mobile Deployment Platform: Seeking Input on a Community Resource

11:45 AM-1:15 PM


- Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting

12:00 PM-1:15 PM


- ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


- ESA Paleoecology Section Business Meeting

- ESA Statistical Ecology Business Meeting and Mixer

FT 14 - Greening in Downtown Minneapolis: A Walking Tour of the Loring Greenway and Loring Park

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


IGN 4 - Bridging the Gap between Basic and Applied Science: How Scientists Can Advance Ecology and Solve Environmental Problems at the Same Time

IGN 5 - Complementarity Considers Ecological Principles to Create Sustainable Pathways

IGN 6 - Crossing the Line - An Interdisciplinary Trip Through Climate Change Research at the Treeline Ecotone

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 34 - Behavior I

COS 35 - Biodiversity II

COS 36 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function I

COS 37 - Climate Change: Communities II

COS 38 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory III

COS 39 - Community Pattern And Dynamics I

COS 40 - Dispersal And Colonization

COS 41 - Education: Research And Assessment

COS 42 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

COS 43 - Invasion: Community Effects

COS 44 - Modeling II

COS 45 - Paleoecology

COS 46 - Restoration Ecology I

COS 47 - Species Interactions I

COS 48 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions

COS 49 - Urban Ecosystems I

COS 50 - Wetlands

OOS 11 - Communities, Places, and American Ecology: Case Studies

OOS 12 - Enhancing Linkages between Forest Management and Ecological Theory

OOS 13 - Terrestrial-Aquatic Linkages II: Movement of Nutrients and Carbon

OOS 14 - The Effects of Climate Change on Community and Ecosystem Processes: Lessons Learned from the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

SYMP 7 - Defining Which Microbial Properties Matter Most to Ecosystem Function and How to Measure Them

SYMP 8 - Eco-Epidemiology: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Addressing Public Health Problems

SYMP 9 - Resilience, Disturbance, and Long-Term Environmental Change: Integrating Paleoecology Into Conservation and Management in the Anthropocene

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


- ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 2 - The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Building a Community-Infused, Community-Driven Resource For Ecological Science

PS 19 - Biodiversity

PS 20 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory

PS 21 - Community Pattern And Dynamics

PS 22 - Community Disturbance And Recovery

PS 23 - Restoration Ecology

PS 24 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

PS 25 - Ecosystem Management

PS 26 - Conservation Ecology

PS 27 - Conservation Management

PS 28 - Soil Ecology

PS 29 - Agriculture

PS 30 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry

PS 31 - Sustainability

5:00 PM-11:00 PM


FT 15 - Bdote Mni Sota: Environment and Culture At the Confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- Bringing the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology to Minneapolis

- ESA Applied Ecology, Agroecology, Urban Ecosystems, Human Ecology, and Environmental Justice Join Mixer

- ESA Asian Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Biogeosciences, Microbial Ecology, and Soil Ecology Sections Joint Mixer

- ESA Certification Mixer

- ESA Education Section Mixer

- ESA Fund for the Future Donor Reception (by invitation only) 

- ESA Student Section Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony

- Ecology Letters Drinks Reception

- NEON Meet and Greet

- Oecologia Editorial Board Reception

- Tropical Mixer Sponsored by the Organization for Tropical Studies

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 15 - DataNet: Demonstrations of Data Discovery, Access, and Sharing Tools

SS 16 - Ecological Footprint

SS 17 - Ecological Theory in Microbial Ecology

SS 18 - Incorporating Ecology into Green Roof Research

SS 19 - Open Science and Ecology (Open Format)

WK 41 - Developing Action Plans for Incorporating Environmental Justice (EJ) in Ecological Research and Education: Learning from Diverse EJ Practitioners How to Shape Future Community Sustainability

WK 42 - Ecological Inquiry in a Virtual World

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

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5:30 AM-7:00 AM


TK 3 - ESA Sunrise 5K Fun Run/Walk in Minneapolis

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


- ESA Historical Records Committee Business Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Development Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Publications Committee Business Meeting

- Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting

7:30 AM-9:30 AM


- Committee on Diversity and Education Business Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


IGN 7 - Demystifying Science Communication, Policy, and Decision-making: Experiences of Scientist-practitioners

IGN 8 - Is the Interaction of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics Widespread or a Special Case?

IGN 9 - Urban Ecology: From Biophysics to Society

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 51 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

COS 52 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function II

COS 53 - Climate Change: Plants I

COS 54 - Community Disturbance And Recovery I

COS 55 - Community Pattern And Dynamics II

COS 56 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory

COS 57 - Disease And Epidemiology I

COS 58 - Education: Pedagogy

COS 59 - Food Webs I

COS 60 - Forest Habitats: Temperate

COS 61 - Invasion: Models

COS 62 - Restoration Ecology II

COS 63 - Species Interactions II

COS 64 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry

COS 65 - Urban Ecosystems II

OOS 15 - Evaluating The Dynamics Of Tree Species Range Limits Under Climate Change For Sustaining Biodiversity

OOS 16 - Informing and Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Approaches Using Historic Ecological Data Records

OOS 17 - The Development of Regional Plot-Based Vegetation Classifications: How Classifications Based on Large Sets of Plot Data Further Our Understanding of Vegetation Ecology and Conservation

OOS 18 - What Is The Fate Of a Forest Without Vertebrate Frugivores? Merging Case Studies With Theory

OOS 19 - White-Tailed Deer: Ecology, Management and Social Consequences Of An Overabundant Wildlife Species

SYMP 10 - CANCELLED - Monitoring Ecosystem Services: Standardizing Metrics and Serving Policy

SYMP 11 - The Ecology of Enzymes in the Environment: New Insights into Controls on Enzyme Production, in situ Activity, and Turnover and Their Roles in Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change

SYMP 12 - Using Education Theory: Learning From the Past to Shape the Future of Ecology Teaching

11:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training Session

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- Carleton College Alumni and Friends Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Environmental Justice Business Meeting

- ESA Host-parasite Ecology and Evolution Section Inaugural Business Meeting

- ESA Tutorial for ESA Website Updates: All Section/Chapter Chair Invited

- Envisioning the Next-Generation LTER Network Office: Free Lunch in exchange for your Ideas

- Theoretical Ecology Journal Editorial Board Meeting

- Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Business Meeting

WK 43 - Career Hour: Introduction to Negotiation Strategy and Tactics

12:15 PM-1:15 PM


PL-3 - ESA Recent Advances Lecture

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


IGN 10 - Constraints in Ecology

IGN 11 - Engineered Ecology: How Ecologists are Informing and Improving Engineered Systems

IGN 12 - The Endangered Species Act Turns 40: Lessons Learned for Conservation of Threatened and Endangered Species in the United States

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 66 - Behavior II

COS 67 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change I

COS 68 - Biogeography And Macroecology

COS 69 - Climate Change: Plants II

COS 70 - Community Disturbance And Recovery II

COS 71 - Community Pattern And Dynamics III

COS 72 - Conservation Ecology

COS 73 - Detritus And Decomposition I

COS 74 - Disease And Epidemiology II

COS 75 - Ecosystem Function

COS 76 - Invasion: Prevention And Management

COS 77 - Land-Use And Land-Use History

COS 78 - Mycorrhizae

COS 79 - Restoration Ecology III

COS 80 - Soil Ecology

COS 81 - Sustainability: Urban Systems

OOS 20 - Community-structuring Processes in Fragmented Freshwater Habitats: A Synthesis Across Scales and Systems

OOS 21 - Frontiers In Modeling Drought- and Insect-Induced Tree Mortality With Climate Change

OOS 22 - Population, Community and Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges For The Future Of Ecosystem Management

SYMP 13 - Can Ethics and Justice Pave a Sustainable Pathway for Human Ecosystems?

SYMP 14 - Ecology Across Borders: International, National, and Cultural Challenges of Managing Species Internationally

SYMP 15 - Evolution, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 3 - Current Perspectives On The History Of Ecology

PS 32 - History

PS 33 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

PS 34 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

PS 35 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

PS 36 - Riparian And Floodplain Habitats

PS 37 - Wetlands

PS 38 - Functional Ecology

PS 39 - Physiological Ecology

PS 40 - Phenotypic Plasticity

PS 41 - Evolution

PS 42 - Ecological Genetics

PS 43 - Urban Ecosystems

PS 44 - Education: Community-Based Learning

PS 45 - Education: Pedagogy

PS 46 - Education: Research And Assessment

PS 47 - Education: Tools And Technology

PS 48 - Spatial Analysis And GIS

PS 49 - Stable Isotope Applications

PS 50 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis

PS 51 - Statistics

PS 52 - Modeling

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- Colorado State University Ecologists Mixer Sponsored by the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability

- ESA Natural History Section

- ESA Physiological Ecology Section Mixer and Business Meeting

- ESA Plant Population Ecology Section Mixer and Business Meeting

- RWJF Health & Society Scholars Informational Recruitment Session/Reception

TK 4 - ESA SEEDS Diversity Celebration

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 20 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on the Global Stage: IPBES and you

WK 44 - CANCELLED - International Project Opportunities for Applied Ecologists: Resources and Techniques to Identify and Successfully Compete for Work Abroad

WK 45 - What Editors Want: An Author's Guide to Scientific Publishing

Thursday, August 8, 2013

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Public Affairs Committee Business Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


IGN 13 - Ecological Analysis Using Network Science and Graph Theory

IGN 14 - The Value of Philosophy for Ecology

IGN 15 - Where the Shovel Meets the Science: Reciprocal Learning Between Restoration and Ecology.

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 82 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change II

COS 83 - Biological Control

COS 84 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology I

COS 85 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV

COS 86 - Conservation Management I

COS 87 - Detritus And Decomposition II

COS 88 - Disease And Epidemiology III

COS 89 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience I

COS 90 - Education And Outreach II

COS 91 - Environmental Gradients

COS 92 - Food Webs II

COS 93 - Invasion: Species Interactions I

COS 94 - Life History Theory And Evolution

COS 95 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

COS 96 - Physiological Ecology I

COS 97 - Population Dynamics And Regulation I

OOS 23 - Bridging The Public-Private Land Divide - Supporting Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services By Tapping The Ingenuity In Social-Ecological Systems

OOS 24 - Managing Belowground Processes In Agroecosystems

OOS 25 - Plant Reintroductions As Sustained Ecological Experiments: Results and Feedbacks To Restoration and Theory

OOS 26 - Sustaining Forest Goods and Services In a Time Of Change: The Role Of Harvest Gaps In Northern Temperate Forest Regeneration and Diversity

SYMP 16 - Ecological Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

SYMP 17 - There and Back Again: Replication Standards in Long-Term Research, Integrating the Field and Database Perspectives for Future Management

SYMP 18 - Warming Consumers and their Prey: General Principles and Applications for How Temperature Affects Trophic Interactions

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


WK 46 - Using Large Scale Datasets in Education (by invitation only)

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Tutorial for ESA Website Update--All ESA Sections/Chapters Invited (repeat of Wed. session)

- Ecology and Evolution Editorial Board Meeting

TK 5 - ESA Diversity Luncheon

WK 47 - Combining Field Measurements and Ecosystem Models

WK 48 - Developing Effective Lesson Plans for Sustainability Education which Integrate Historical Human Impacts and Creative Vision for the Future

WK 49 - ESA-SEEDS Chapter Business Workshop

WK 50 - Getting though the Postdoctoral Phase to an Academic Job

WK 51 - Launching A Scientists' Speakers Bureau for Outreach to Faith and Justice Communities

WK 52 - Science Journalism: From 'Little Story on the Prairie' to Worldwide News

WK 53 - Show Me The Money: How To Write Successful Student Grant Proposals

WK 54 - What the Farm Bill Means to an (Agro)Ecologist

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


IGN 16 - Conversation on the Future of Ecology

IGN 17 - Scaling in Global Change Studies: Representation in Multiple Dimensions

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 98 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions

COS 99 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

COS 100 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology II

COS 101 - Conservation Management II

COS 102 - Disease And Epidemiology IV

COS 103 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I

COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience II

COS 105 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems

COS 106 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

COS 107 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation I

COS 108 - Invasion: Species Interactions II

COS 109 - Microbial Ecology I

COS 110 - Phenology

COS 111 - Physiological Ecology II

COS 112 - Population Dynamics And Regulation II

COS 113 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions I

OOS 27 - Indigenous Communities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change: Impacts, Mitigation, Adaptation and Education

OOS 28 - Long-term Legacies of Invasive Shrubs on Forest Ecosystems

OOS 29 - Peatland Processes and Environmental Change: Past, Present, and Future

OOS 30 - The Climate Change Response Framework: Integrating Tools, Partnerships, and Actions to Support Climate-Smart Conservation and Forest Management

SYMP 19 - Coexistence of Closest Relatives: Synthesis of Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives

SYMP 20 - Integrating Agro-Ecological Research Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

SYMP 21 - Rapid Climate Change and Species Range Shifts: Observations, Predictions, and Management

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Closing

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


OPS 4 - Forest Inventory and Analysis Data In Ecological Research: Using Permanent Plots To Assess The Past, Examine The Present, and Project The Future Of Forest Ecosystems In The United States

PS 53 - Forest Habitats: Temperate

PS 54 - Forest And Rangeland Management

PS 55 - Fire

PS 56 - Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

PS 57 - Population Biology

PS 58 - Behavior

PS 59 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet

PS 60 - Herbivory

PS 61 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions

PS 62 - Food Webs

PS 63 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions

PS 64 - Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 65 - Pollination

PS 66 - Mutualism And Facilitation

PS 67 - Species Interactions

PS 68 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 69 - Disease And Epidemiology

PS 70 - Microbial Ecology

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


TK 6 - ESA Closing Social: An Evening at the Twins Ballpark

Friday, August 9, 2013

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM


- ESA International Affairs Section Awards Breakfast

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 114 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients

COS 115 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology III

COS 116 - Community Pattern And Dynamics V

COS 117 - Distributions And Range Limits

COS 118 - Ecosystem Ecology

COS 119 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II

COS 120 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation II

COS 121 - Evolutionary Ecology

COS 122 - Fire

COS 123 - Fisheries Management And Models

COS 124 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, And Diversity

COS 125 - Microbial Ecology II

COS 126 - Pollination

COS 127 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

COS 128 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions II

COS 129 - Riparian And Floodplain Habitats

OOS 31 - Climate Change and Boreal Forests

OOS 32 - Ecophysiological Effects Of Predation Risk

OOS 33 - Implications of Climate Change for Ecosystem Processes in the Southwest U.S.

OOS 34 - Intrapopulation Niche Variation: From Incidence to Relevance

SYMP 22 - Beyond Hypothesis Testing

SYMP 23 - Global Change and The Long-Term Fragmentation Experiments

SYMP 24 - Past, Present, and Future Design of Infrastructures for a Resilient Society

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


PS 71 - Latebreaking: Agriculture

PS 72 - Latebreaking: Aquatic Ecology

PS 73 - Latebreaking: Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

PS 74 - Latebreaking: Behavior

PS 75 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 76 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 77 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 78 - Latebreaking: Communities

PS 79 - Latebreaking: Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory

PS 80 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Services Assessment

PS 81 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 82 - Latebreaking: Environmental Monitoring, Impact, Risk Assessment

PS 83 - Latebreaking: Evolution

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 85 - Latebreaking: Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

PS 86 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Modeling

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Mycorrhizae

PS 89 - Latebreaking: Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 90 - Latebreaking: Physiology

PS 91 - Latebreaking: Population Biology

PS 92 - Latebreaking: Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions

PS 93 - Latebreaking: Restoration Ecology

PS 94 - Latebreaking: Soil Ecology

PS 95 - Latebreaking: Spatial Analysis And GIS

PS 96 - Latebreaking: Species Interactions

PS 97 - Latebreaking: Sustainability

PS 98 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecosystems

PS 99 - Latebreaking: Wetlands

PS 100 - Latebreaking: Woody Plants

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


- CANCELLED-ESA Buell/Braun Student Award Committee Meeting

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