OOS 11
Nurturing Ideas and Scientists in Ecology: A Tribute to Bill Robertson

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Magnolia, Sheraton Hotel
Organizer:
Lars O. Hedin, Princeton University
Co-organizers:
Hal Mooney, Stanford University; and Pamela Matson, Stanford University
Moderator:
Harold Mooney, Stanford University
This session is designed to reflect upon, and to celebrate, the impact that William (Bill) Robertson IV and the A.W. Mellon Foundation has had on Ecology as a vibrant and evolving scientific discipline. Rather than focussing on Bill directly, we propose to focus on what Bill and the Foundation cared about in their way of supporting our field of science over more than three decades: how best to nurture ideas and the ecologists that develop them.
8:00 AM
OOS 11-1
 Advances in sustainability science and marine ecology
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University
8:20 AM
OOS 11-2
 Bringing theory to real-world ecosystems
Simon Levin, Princeton University
8:40 AM
OOS 11-3
 Promoting ideas in ecology: Bill Robertson, biogeochemistry, and biodiversity
Lars O. Hedin, Princeton University
9:00 AM
OOS 11-4
 Savanna vegetation structure. Top down or bottom up?
Edmund C. February, University of Cape Town
9:20 AM
OOS 11-5
 Discoveries in microbial ecology
Kathleen Treseder, University of California Irvine
9:40 AM
OOS 11-
 Break
9:50 AM
OOS 11-6
 Risking scientific discovery at new ecological scales
Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science
10:10 AM
OOS 11-7
 Changing directions: Mellon-enabled discoveries in plant ecophysiology reveal novel behaviors in plants
Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 AM
OOS 11-8
 Impact on the Ecological Society of America
Katherine McCarter, Ecological Society of America
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