100th ESA Annual Meeting (August 9 -- 14, 2015)

Saturday, August 8, 2015

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7:30 AM-3:30 PM


FT 1 - A NEON Site Tour: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (CANCELLED)

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


WK 2 - Life Under the City: Assessment of Urban Soils

WK 3 - Connecting Students to Ecology through Culture: An Ethnobiological Approach (CANCELLED)

WK 4 - Introduction to R for Ecologists

WK 5 - Individual Stochasticity: How to Model, Measure, and Interpret It

WK 6 - Educating the Interdisciplinary Ecologist: Assessing Educational Ecosystems to Help PhD Students Succeed, Get Hired, and Push Boundaries

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


FT 2 - Biodiversity and History Along the Potomac River — George Washington’s Plantation and Four Parks Including Great Falls on the Potomac of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia

WK 1 - Embedding Authentic Ecology Research in Introductory Lab Courses

8:00 AM-7:00 PM


FT 3 - Canoe Trip: Natural and Cultural History of the Potomac River

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

9:00 AM-3:30 PM


FT 4 - Ecological Science and Grassroots Planning: Defining Research Opportunities That Support Diverse Community Interests (CANCELLED)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


WK 7 - Introduction to Community Data Analysis Using the vegan Package in R

WK 8 - COMPADRE: The Era of Comparative Plant Demography

WK 9 - Engaging K-12 Educators in Teaching and Learning about Urban Ecosystems (CANCELLED)

WK 10 - Sampling for Species Using Environmental DNA (eDNA): Applications, Methods, and Analysis

4:00 PM-8:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Student Orientation (by invitation only)

5:00 PM-9:00 PM


WK 11 - Saturday Night Special! Get the Job: Early-Career Professional Development in Networking, Accessing Hidden (and Creating Your Own) Career Opportunities, Managing Your Research Reputation, and Partnering with Mentors

Sunday, August 9, 2015

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7:00 AM-3:30 PM


FT 5 - From Land To Water: Grassland Restoration And Ecology Of The Chester River

7:30 AM-5:00 PM


FT 6 - Vegetation, Flora, and Ecology of the Potomac Gorge

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


WK 12 - Increasing Openness in Science Research: Lessons and Best Practices (CANCELLED)

WK 14 - Advanced Community Data Analysis Using the vegan Package in R

WK 15 - Connecting with Community Groups: Clear and Compelling Public Communication

WK 18 - Learning Across Natural and Social Sciences: Using a Social and Ecological Framework

WK 19 - Time Saving Tools and Services for Ecological Applications Utilizing MODIS Products (CANCELLED)

WK 20 - A Hands-on Tutorial in Empirical Dynamic Modeling and Convergent Cross-Mapping

WK 22 - Operationalisation of Ecological Public Health – Integrating Ecosystem Services into Health Impact Assessment

8:00 AM-1:00 PM


FT 7 - Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


- DryadLab QUBES Mentoring Network (by invitation only)

WK 13 - A Hands-on Primer for Working with Big Data in R: Introduction to Hierarchical Data Formats, LiDar Data & Efficient Data Visualization

WK 16 - Simple App Creation for Ecologists Using MIT App Inventor

WK 17 - CANCELLED - Structural Equation Modeling: An Introduction

WK 21 - Exploring Diverse Career Pathways in Ecology

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


- Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


FT 8 - Ecology and Tribal Cultures of North America: A Trip to the National Museums!

9:00 AM-3:00 PM


FT 9 - Urban Bioblitz Along Sites of Baltimore's Upper Middle Branch and Watershed 263.

9:45 AM-2:00 PM


FT 10 - Green Infrastructure in a Revitalizing Dense Urban Neighborhood

10:15 AM-3:00 PM


FT 11 - Long Term Ecological Research Sites in Baltimore

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


WK 23 - 7th Annual Resources for Ecology Education: Fair and Share

WK 24 - Tips and Tools for Entrepreneurial Ecologists (CANCELLED)

WK 25 - Ecological Network Analysis

WK 26 - Population and Ecological Data Tools and Services: An Introduction to Working with Terra Populus and DataONE (FREE but must register for workshop)

WK 27 - Demography in a Continuous World: New Advances in Integral Projection Models (IPMs)

WK 28 - Data Visualization Using R and ggplot

WK 29 - Communicating Science Vividly

1:00 PM-2:00 PM


- ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting

- ESA Governing Council Special Orientation and Discussion

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA Governing Council Orientation and Reception

3:00 PM-3:30 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Mentor Orientation (by invitation only)

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


PL 1 - ESA Opening Plenary Session

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- ESA Welcome Reception

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Welcome Dinner (by invitation only)

Monday, August 10, 2015

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7:00 AM-8:30 AM


- ESA SEEDS Mentoring Breakfast (by invitation only)

- ESA Science Committee Business Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


PL 2 - ESA Scientific Plenary & ESA Awards Session

11:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Board of Certification Meeting

- ESA Editors' Joint Luncheon (by invitation only)

- Journal of Ecology and Evolution Editorial Board Meeting

SS 1 - How to Get the Most Out of ESA’s 2015 Annual Meeting: An Orientation for Student and First Time Attendees

SS 2 - Ecology on the Runway: An Eco-Fashion Show and Other Non-Traditional Public Engagement Approaches (CANCELLED)

SS 3 - Creating Effective Data Management Plans for Ecological Research

SS 4 - Carbon Cycle Science at the Frontier of Global Change: A Coordinated Effort Among Federal Agencies

WK 30 - Modeling in the Biology Classroom: Creating Opportunities to Build Connections and Assess Science Skills

WK 31 - Implementing Group Work in Ecology Classes

WK 32 - How to Participate in Public Policy and Communicate with Congress

WK 33 - Demonstrating the First Ecosystem Simulation Models: H.T. Odum's Original Passive Electrical Analog Computers

WK 34 - The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): A Progress Report

11:45 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Rangeland Ecology Section Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


- ESA Southwest Chapter Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:15 PM


- ESA Past Presidents' Forum (by invitation only)

CELS 1 - ESA Centennial Ecology Lecture Series: Chris Field

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


IGN 1 - Advances, Frontiers, Applications, and Challenges within and Across Ecological Disciplines: A Celebration of ESA’s Centennial, and a Roadmap for the Next 100 Years

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 1 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

COS 2 - Behavior I

COS 3 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling I

COS 4 - Biological Control

COS 5 - Climate Change I

COS 6 - Community Disturbance And Recovery I

COS 7 - Ecosystem Function

COS 8 - Ecosystem Management

COS 9 - Ecosystem Services Assessment

COS 10 - Environmental Gradients

COS 11 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

COS 12 - Microbial Ecology I

COS 13 - Modeling

COS 14 - Paleoecology

COS 15 - Physiological Ecology I

COS 16 - Pollination I

COS 17 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions I

COS 18 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

COS 19 - Soil Ecology

OOS 1 - Weaving the Soil Biodiversity Food Web: Advancements in Understanding on a Global Scale

OOS 2 - Biodiversity of Temperate and Tropical Rivers in a Changing World: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

OOS 3 - The ESA at 100: Historical Perspectives on Ecology and Ecological Management

OOS 4 - Advances in Modeling Wildlife Abundance

OOS 5 - Ecological Controls over Soil Organic Carbon Cycling: An Emerging Frontier in Ecology

OOS 6 - From Drought to Deluge: Evolutionary Lessons for Natural Resource Management in an Increasingly Variable World

OOS 7 - Synergies for Food Production, Conservation and Rural Development in a Changing Climate

OOS 8 - Danse Macabre: The Role of Migrations and Mortality in Shaping Our Planet

OOS 9 - Student Learning and Understanding in Ecology and Evolution: Development and Use of Assessment Tools to Guide Undergraduate Education Reform

OOS 10 - Toward Prediction in the Restoration of Biodiversity

OOS 11 - Community and Ecosystem Effects of Rapid Evolution

OOS 12 - Snapshot Ecology: Inferring Ecosystem Dynamics from a Single Point in Time or Space

SYMP 1 - Synergies Between Ecology and Economics: Cross-Pollination and Gains from Trade

SYMP 2 - An Ecology IN, OF, and FOR the City

SYMP 3 - Global Change and Infectious Disease Dynamics

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


IGN 2 - Going Macro: Is Scaling Up All the Same?

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


- Ecosystems, Health and Sustainability Editorial Board Meeting

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


- Meet the Editors of the ESA Journals

OPS 1 - Upstream Engagement: Social-Ecological Approaches to Freshwater and Coastal Restoration

OPS 2 - New Frontiers in Amphibian Conservation

PS 1 - Reptiles And Amphibians

PS 2 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

PS 3 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

PS 4 - Estuarine

PS 5 - Marine Systems

PS 6 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

PS 7 - Wetlands

PS 8 - Microbial Ecology

PS 9 - Soil Ecology

PS 10 - Detritus And Decomposition

PS 11 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions

PS 12 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

PS 13 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients

PS 14 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change

PS 15 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects On Biogeo Processes

PS 16 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function

PS 17 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems

PS 18 - Climate Change

PS 19 - Climate Change: Plants

PS 20 - Phenology

PS 21 - Ecosystem Function

PS 22 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity

5:00 PM-5:45 PM


- ESA Awards Recipients' Reception (by invitation only)

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- ESA Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Policy Section Business Meeting

- ESA Science Communication Section Business Meeting

- ESA Theoretical Ecology Section and ESA Statistical Ecology Section Joint Mixer

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

- Utah State University Ecology Center Social

- World Ecological Societies' Dinner (by invitation only)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 6 - Ecology’s Concepts: How Are They Used and Valued?

SS 7 - Integrating Ecological Wisdom with Ecology: A New Strategy for Socio-Ecosystem Planning and Management

SS 9 - A Way Forward with the Open Science Network in Ethnobiology: Natural and Cultural Systems Embedded in Core Concepts and Competencies (CANCELLED)

SS 10 - New Frontiers: Bridging the Gaps Between Continental and Global-Scale Research Networks, A Special AGU-ESA Event and Evening Social

WK 35 - Career Hour: Networking Night! Become a Networking Rock Star (FREE but must register)

WK 36 - Breaking the Ice with STEAM: Synthesis, Innovation, and Improving Scientific Outreach through Artistic Collaboration (FREE but must register)

WK 37 - Opportunities and Strategies for Securing Ecology-Student Funding (FREE but must register)

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM


- ESA Awards Committee Business Meeting

TK 2 - ESA Student Mentor/Mentee Breakfast

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Meeting

7:30 AM-8:30 AM


- ESA SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


TK 3 - NEON, Inc. Membership Breakfast (by invitation only)

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


IGN 3 - Ecology in Earth System Models: What’s Missing and Why Is It Important?

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 20 - Behavior II

COS 21 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions I

COS 22 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling II

COS 23 - Climate Change II

COS 24 - Community Disturbance And Recovery II

COS 25 - Competition

COS 26 - Conservation Management I

COS 27 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I

COS 28 - Education: Community-Based Learning

COS 29 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

COS 30 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation

COS 31 - Invasion I

COS 32 - Invasion: Prevention And Management

COS 33 - Microbial Ecology II

COS 34 - Physiological Ecology II

COS 35 - Pollination II

COS 36 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions II

COS 37 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry

OOS 13 - New Perspectives for Ecology during the Anthropocene: New Paradigms, Technologies and Collaborations

OOS 14 - Road Ecology - Moving Forward

OOS 15 - Dynamics, Conservation Status, and Future of the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome: A Session in Honor of E. Lucy Braun

OOS 16 - Allee Effects: Theory and Applications

OOS 17 - Demography Gone Wild: Applications of Integral Projection Models in Functional Ecology, Life History Theory, Community Ecology and Conservation Biology

OOS 18 - Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Plant Coexistence: Integrating Theoretical Models and Empirical Approaches

OOS 19 - Green Roof Biodiversity and the Food Web

OOS 20 - Biomarkers in Trophic Ecology: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

OOS 21 - Urban Soil Biodiversity: A New Frontier in Ecological Science and Education

OOS 22 - Dead Roots: The Dark Side of the Carbon Cycle

OOS 23 - Models and Mechanisms of Fungal Disease

SYMP 4 - Understanding Temporal Trends of Biodiversity

SYMP 5 - Ecology, Conservation and Human Well-Being: Improving Outcomes for Nature and People

SYMP 6 - Science Under Scrutiny: Insulating Scientists from Harassment and Political and Ideological Interference in Their Work

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


- ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification Panel Meeting

10:00 AM-11:30 AM


IGN 4 - Developing a Pilot Indicator System for U.S. Climate Changes, Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Responses

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


- Theoretical Ecology Editorial Board Lunch Meeting

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- Biological Invasions Board Meeting (Springer: by invitation only)

- ESA Ecosphere Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Human Ecology Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon (by invitation only)

- Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) Brown Bag Lunch

- Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting

- Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting

- GLBT Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

SS 11 - Sense of Place-Importance of Integrating American Indian Traditional Ecological Knowledge in to Federal Research, Land Management and Policies: 100 Years of Working with Tribes

SS 13 - DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments: A Coupled Model-Experiment in Arctic and Tropical Ecosystems

WK 39 - Science Speed Dating: Networking for the Career Ecologist

WK 40 - Looks Who’s Talking! Using Discussion as an Effective Learning Tool

WK 41 - Making Ecology Safer for Everyone: Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Field

WK 42 - Teaching Organic Chemistry As If Biology Matters

WK 43 - Plugging into NEON: Resources Available From the National Ecological Observatory Network

11:45 AM-1:15 PM


- Christian Ecologist Brown Bag Lunch

12:00 PM-1:15 PM


CELS 2 - ESA Centennial Ecology Lecture Series: Joshua Tewksbury

1:00 PM-6:00 PM


FT 12 - Baltimore Harbor Boat Trip: Exploring an Urban Aquatic Ecosystem

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


IGN 5 - Image Processing and Computer Vision for Ecology

LNG 1 - Contributed Lightning Session I

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 38 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

COS 39 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet I

COS 40 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions II

COS 41 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function I

COS 42 - Biogeography And Macroecology I

COS 43 - Climate Change: Communities I

COS 44 - Community Disturbance And Recovery III

COS 45 - Community Pattern And Dynamics I

COS 46 - Conservation Management II

COS 47 - Dispersal And Colonization

COS 48 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II

COS 49 - Education: Research And Assessment

COS 50 - Evolutionary Ecology

COS 51 - Invasion II

COS 52 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession

COS 53 - Phenology

COS 54 - Physiological Ecology III

COS 55 - Plant-Insect Interactions I

COS 56 - Sustainability: Urban Systems

OOS 24 - Collaborative Ecological Research Networks: Sociology, Successes, and Future Opportunities

OOS 25 - Disrupted Nitrogen Cycling in the Tropics: Tracking the Effects of Global Change Impacts on N Biogeochemistry from Soil to Stream

OOS 26 - Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Applications of Science to Management in the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains

OOS 27 - Demographic Buffering Beyond the Comfort Zone: Species’ Responses to Anthropogenic Disturbances

OOS 28 - Functional, Phylogenetic and Genetic Dimensions of Forest Diversity and Change

OOS 29 - Resilience to Climate Change Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science

OOS 30 - Ecology in the Critical Zone

OOS 31 - Soil's Role in Providing and Restoring Ecosystem Services

OOS 32 - Contributions of Urban Agriculture to the Urban Ecosystem

OOS 33 - The Macroecology of Infectious Disease

OOS 34 - Molecular Insights into Microbial Feedbacks to Climate

OOS 35 - The Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Communities, Ecosystems, and Responses to Environmental Change

SYMP 7 - Beyond Invasional Meltdown: Implications and Impacts of Co-Occurring Invasive Species and Assessing Future Research Needs

SYMP 8 - The Importance of 100 Years of Natural History to the Ecological Sciences

SYMP 9 - Fostering Transdisciplinary Science to Meet 21st-Century Challenges: How Can Ecology Learn from the 'Science of Team Science'?

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


IGN 6 - Hacking Ecology: The Infiltration of Coding in Ecology for Data Integration, Analysis, and Visualization

LNG 2 - Contributed Lightning Session II

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


- ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


- Cambridge University Press Reception in Booth 328-330

- Meet the Editors of the ESA Journals

- Springer Reception in Booth 357

OPS 3 - Advancing Ecological Understanding Using Network-Level Science

OPS 4 - Drones for Ecology: New Sampling Tools for Personal Remote Sensing of Ecosystems

PS 23 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience

PS 24 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory

PS 25 - Community Disturbance And Recovery

PS 26 - Community Pattern And Dynamics

PS 27 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

PS 28 - Food Webs

PS 29 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions

PS 30 - Herbivory

PS 31 - Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 32 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions

PS 33 - Disease Ecology

PS 34 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 35 - Mutualism And Facilitation

PS 36 - Species Interactions

PS 37 - Pollination

PS 38 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

PS 39 - Biodiversity

PS 40 - Modeling

PS 41 - Ecoinformatics

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


- ESA Committee on Diversity and Education

5:30 PM-8:00 PM


- ESA Fund for the Future Reception

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- Celebrating 100 Years of ESA with the Odum School of Ecology

- ESA Biogeosciences, Microbial Ecology, and Soil Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Disease Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Early Career Ecologist Section Business Meeting

- ESA Ecological Restoration Business Meeting

- ESA Natural History Section Mixer and Silent Auction

- ESA Open Science Section

- ESA Sections Joint Mixer (Urban Ecosystems Ecology, Applied Ecology, Human Ecology, Environmental Justice, Agroecology, Asian Ecology, Education, Early Career, International Affairs, Long-Term Studies, Rangeland, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Disease

- Ecology Letters Drink Reception (by invitation only)

- Oecologia Editorial Board Drink Reception

TK 1 - ESA Student Mixer

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


- USGS Meet and Greet Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 14 - Aligning Ecology with Cultural Landscape Studies and Community History to Improve Urban Ecosystems

SS 15 - Building Global Ecological Understanding

SS 16 - An Evening of Art and Music

SS 17 - Expanding Diversity in the Next Generation of Ecology: What Works to Recruit, Matriculate, and Retain Disadvantaged Youth in Undergraduate Degrees in Ecological Degree Programs?

SS 18 - Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice

SS 19 - Developing a Set of Fundamental Concepts in Ecology

WK 44 - Career Hour: The Interview: What You Need to Do Before, During, and After to Get the Job

WK 45 - Kill the Powerpoint: Exploring Teaching Moments Via Impromptu Chalk Talks

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

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5:30 AM-7:30 AM


TK 4 - ESA Sunrise 5K Fun Run and Walk in Baltimore

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Historical Records Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Meeting

- ESA Publications Committee Meeting

- ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter Business Meeting

7:00 AM-1:00 PM


FT 13 - Battlefield Ecology

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Public Affairs Committee: Engaging in Policy Breakfast (by invitation only)

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


IGN 7 - DataNet Tools and Services

LNG 3 - Contributed Lightning Session III

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 57 - Agriculture I

COS 58 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

COS 59 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet II

COS 60 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects On Biogeo Processes

COS 61 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function II

COS 62 - Biogeography And Macroecology II

COS 63 - Climate Change: Communities II

COS 64 - Climate Change: Plants I

COS 65 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory I

COS 66 - Community Pattern And Dynamics II

COS 67 - Conservation Management III

COS 68 - Disease And Epidemiology I

COS 69 - Distributions And Range Limits

COS 70 - Functional Ecology

COS 71 - Invasion: Community Effects

COS 72 - Life History Theory And Evolution

COS 73 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

COS 74 - Plant-Insect Interactions II

COS 75 - Population Dynamics And Regulation I

OOS 36 - Coastal Plant Range Shifts: Causes and Consequences

OOS 37 - Implications of Positive Interaction Studies to the Future of Ecological Research

OOS 38 - Seeds of Evolution: Using Resurrection Ecology and the Project Baseline Collection to Understand Responses to Anthropogenic and Natural Change

OOS 39 - Native Plant Materials Development Research: Synthesis, Cutting Edge and Use Implications

OOS 40 - ESA Vice Presidents’ Centennial Session: Frontiers in Science, Education, Management, and Policy to Address Pressing Environmental Issues

OOS 41 - Scaling Microbial Functions from Molecule to the Globe: Integrated Experiment-Model Approaches

OOS 42 - Putting Agroecology to Work: From Science to Practice and Policy

OOS 43 - Effects of Climate Warming on Aboveground-Belowground Feedbacks in Terrestrial Ecosystems

OOS 44 - Ecologists and Faith & Justice Communities: A Journey from Antagonism to Earth Stewardship Partnerships for the Next Century

OOS 45 - The Emergence, Rise, and Future of Urban Ecology in the United States

SYMP 10 - Integrating Genetics into Strategies for Mitigating Global Change Problems

SYMP 11 - Novel Perspectives on Plant-Soil Networks

SYMP 12 - Recent Advances in Studies on Seed Masting: Interpreting Empirical Data with Mechanistic Models

10:00 AM-11:30 AM


IGN 8 - Enhancing Ecological Research with iDigBio Biological Specimen Data

IGN 9 - When Tiny Things Rule the World

10:00 AM-2:00 PM


FT 14 - A Hike Along the Gwynns Falls Trail

11:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Presider/AV Training

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Urban Ecosystem Ecology and Environmental Justice Joint Business Meeting and Crosstown Walk

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- AoB Plants Editorial Board Meeting

- ESA Education Section Brown Bag Lunch

- ESA Paleoecology Business Meeting

- ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Meeting

- ESA Tutorial on Section/Chapter ESA Website: All Chairs Invited

- Freeman Focus Group

- Learn All About ESA's Professional Certification Program Brown Bag Lunch

11:45 AM-1:00 PM


- ESA Student Section Business Meeting and Award Ceremony

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


- ESA Agroecology Section Brown Bag Lunch, Networking, and Business Meeting

- ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:15 PM


CELS 3 - ESA Centennial Ecology Lecture Series: MacArthur Lecture, Mercedes Pascual

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


FT 15 - Field Sampling Methods for the National Vegetation Classification (CANCELLED)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


IGN 10 - Design for People and Ecosystems

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


COS 76 - Agriculture II

COS 77 - Behavior: Migration And Movement I

COS 78 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change I

COS 79 - Climate Change: Plants II

COS 80 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory II

COS 81 - Community Pattern And Dynamics III

COS 82 - Conservation Ecology I

COS 83 - Disease And Epidemiology II

COS 84 - Diversity Estimation

COS 85 - Genetics And Molecular Techniques

COS 86 - Herbivory

COS 87 - Invasion: Species Interactions I

COS 88 - Mycorrhizae

COS 89 - Population Dynamics And Regulation II

COS 90 - Restoration Ecology I

COS 91 - Theoretical Ecology

COS 92 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions I

COS 93 - Urban Ecosystems I

COS 94 - Wetlands

OOS 46 - Ungulate Overabundance As a Driver of Above- and below-Ground Interactions and Ecosystem Processes

OOS 47 - Paleoecological Patterns, Ecological Processes, Modeled Scenarios: Crossing Scales to Understand an Uncertain Future

OOS 48 - Effects of Disturbance on Consumer Mediated Habitat Linkages

OOS 49 - A Century of Structured Population Models in Ecology

OOS 50 - History and Its Uses in the NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Network

OOS 51 - Functional Traits in Ecological Research: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?

OOS 52 - Assessing Urban Agriculture: Ecosystem Services and Ecological Consequences

OOS 53 - Human Ecology -- A Gathering of Perspectives: Portraits from the Past - Prospects for the Future

OOS 54 - The Role of Biotic Interactions in Structuring Species Distributions: Synthesizing Across Ecological Disciplines and Spatial Scales in the Face of Climate Change

OOS 55 - Head in the Clouds: Advancing Our Understanding of How Fog and Dew Affect Plants in Ecosystems Around the World

OOS 56 - Ecologists and Faith & Justice Communities: Evaluating Opportunities and Challenges for Outreach and Partnership for the Next 100 Years

OOS 57 - Invasive Vines: Drivers of Large-Scale Ecosystem Shifts Worldwide and Consequences for Restoration

SYMP 13 - High-Elevation Ecosystems in a Warmer World: Mechanisms of Change and Interactions Between Abiotic and Biotic Processes

SYMP 14 - Frontiers in the Evolution of Plant-Soil-Microbe Interactions: Linking Ecology and Evolution Belowground

SYMP 15 - Coupled Natural and Human Systems Science: The Need, Challenges and Rewards

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


IGN 11 - Future Directions of Usable Science for Sustainable Rangelands

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


- Meet the Editors of the ESA Journals

OPS 5 - A Fresh Look at Conservation Science: Students Applying Ecology to Address Societal Challenges

PS 42 - Biological Control

PS 43 - Agriculture

PS 44 - Sustainability: Agriculture/Forestry

PS 45 - Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

PS 46 - Fire

PS 47 - Forest And Rangeland Management

PS 48 - Forest Habitats

PS 49 - Conservation Ecology

PS 50 - Conservation Management

PS 51 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory

PS 52 - Ecosystem Management

PS 53 - Ecosystem Services Assessment

PS 54 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

PS 55 - Restoration Ecology

PS 56 - Land-Use And Land-Use History

PS 57 - Sustainability: Urban Systems

PS 58 - Urban Ecosystems

PS 59 - Resource Allocation And Partitioning

PS 60 - Biogeography And Macroecology

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


- Drought-Net Meeting

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


- CANCELLED Alumni Reception, Penn State Science

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

- ESA Asian Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Invasion Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Physiological Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Plant Population Ecology Section Mixer and Business Meeting

- ESA Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Section Mixer and Business Meeting

- ESA SEEDS Chapters Business Meeting

- ESA South American Chapter and Mexican Chapter Joint Business Meeting

- Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting (by invitation only)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


SS 20 - Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences (CANCELLED)

SS 21 - Ecosystem Science in Mongolia: Past Research and Future Prospects Under a Regime of Increasing Environmental Impacts

SS 22 - Welcome to the BLM – One of the West’s Last Ecological Frontiers

SS 23 - ESA Faith Community Outreach/Speakers Bureau Strategic Planning Session

SS 24 - A Game Show for Ecological Science: The Shark Tank of Societal Relevance

SS 25 - Concerns and Challenges in Personal and Professional Development for Early Career Ecologists

SS 26 - Using Science-Policy Integration to Improve Ecosystem Science and Inform Decision-Making: Lessons from U.S. LTERs

WK 46 - Relationships and Interactions: An Eco-Fiction Writing Workshop

WK 47 - From Studying to Shaping Land: A Workshop Bridging Ecology with Design Performance Objectives

Thursday, August 13, 2015

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM


- ESA Exhibit Advisory Board Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


IGN 12 - Dare We Prepare Students for Non-Academic Careers in Ecology?

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 95 - Behavior: Migration And Movement II

COS 96 - Biodiversity I

COS 97 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change II

COS 98 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles

COS 99 - Climate Change: Plants III

COS 100 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory III

COS 101 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV

COS 102 - Conservation Ecology II

COS 103 - Disease And Epidemiology III

COS 104 - Ecoinformatics

COS 105 - Global Change Biology

COS 106 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

COS 107 - Invasion: Species Interactions II

COS 108 - Land-Use And Land-Use History

COS 109 - Niche Relationships And Theory

COS 110 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

COS 111 - Restoration Ecology II

COS 112 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions II

COS 113 - Urban Ecosystems II

OOS 58 - The Ecological Impacts of Drought As Revealed Through Experimental Approaches

OOS 59 - Shifting Dimensions: Temporal Ecology for the Next 100 Years and Beyond

OOS 60 - Parasites in Trophic Networks: Complex Life Cycles, Coinfection Dynamics, and Community Structure

OOS 61 - The Ecology of Renewable Energy Development

OOS 62 - The Consequences of Anthropogenic Chemical Pollution for Community and Ecosystem Dynamics

OOS 63 - Solving Complex Problems in Coupled Natural and Human Systems: Socio-Ecological Research at the Frontier of Global Change

OOS 64 - The Soil Frontier: Understanding How Belowground Processes Drive Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change

OOS 65 - Research Frontiers in Ecological Stoichiometry

OOS 66 - Conservation Genetics of Bee Pollinators

OOS 67 - Population Stabilization and Planetary Stewardship: Making up for Lost Time

OOS 68 - Building Bridges – Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) Imagery to Link Ecological Observations

OOS 69 - Intraspecific Genetic Adaptation in Forest Trees and Its Ecological Implications Under a Changing Climate

SYMP 16 - 100 Years of Agroecology: Pushing the Frontiers of Ecology

SYMP 17 - Synthesizing Ecosystem Responses to Nitrogen Deposition in the U.S. in a Changing Climate: Are There Useful Indicators Across Systems and Scales?

SYMP 18 - Natural Capital As a Lever of Change: Scaling Ecosystem Service Science for Transformative Decisions

9:30 AM-6:00 PM


FT 16 - Greenbelt, Maryland:  An Ecological Perspective on a New Town (CANCELLED)

10:00 AM-11:30 AM


IGN 13 - Ecological Frontiers Require a Permanent Sense of Place: Using and Preserving Campus Natural Areas

11:30 AM-12:00 PM


- ESA Tutorial on Section/Chapter Websites: All Chairs Invited

11:30 AM-1:15 PM


- ESA Issues in Ecology Advisory Board Meeting

SS 27 - Upgrading and Expanding the ESA Certification Program to Meet Ecology Workforce Needs in the 21st Century

SS 28 - Sharing and Managing Data to More Effectively Conduct Ecological Research

SS 29 - Landscape-Scale Scenarios and Projections for Ecosystem Models in a Changing Climate: Research Needs and Capabilities for the National Climate Assessment

TK 5 - ESA Diversity Luncheon

WK 48 - Building a Broader Community in Ecology and the Related Sciences

WK 49 - Developing Ecology Research Modules for Introductory Lab Courses (FREE but must register)

WK 50 - Protecting Campus Natural Areas From Development: Creating a Legacy into the Next Century

WK 51 - Career Hour: Introduction to Negotiation Strategy and Tactics

WK 52 - Women in Ecology: Unique Pathways, Common Experiences, and Next Steps to Addressing Remaining Challenges

WK 53 - Federal Agency Networking Session

WK 54 - Going ‘On the Grid’: The Impacts of Point-to-Pixel Conversion Methods on Uncertainty in Spatial Data

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


IGN 14 - Effects of Evolutionary Processes on Ecosystem Biogeochemical Cycles: Integration of Evolutionary Biology and Ecosystem Science

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


- ESA SEEDS Wrap Up

COS 114 - Biodiversity II

COS 115 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients I

COS 116 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology I

COS 117 - Community Pattern And Dynamics V

COS 118 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory I

COS 119 - Disease And Epidemiology IV

COS 120 - Ecosystem Ecology

COS 121 - Education: Pedagogy

COS 122 - Food Webs I

COS 123 - Grasslands And Steppes

COS 124 - History

COS 125 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

COS 126 - Landscape Ecology

COS 127 - Marine Systems

COS 128 - Modeling: Populations I

COS 129 - Restoration Ecology III

COS 130 - Species Interactions

COS 131 - Temperate Forests I

COS 132 - Urban Ecosystems III

OOS 70 - The Impact of Ecologists in Higher Education Administration in Promoting Ecoliteracy, Ecological Research and Sustainability in the 21st Century

OOS 71 - The Role of Long-Term Studies in Advancing Ecological Understanding

OOS 72 - Microbial Efficiency: Perspectives on the Fate of Metabolized Organic Carbon in a Changing World

OOS 73 - Rewetting Dry Soil: The Century’s Unifying Problem in Soil Microbial Ecology

OOS 74 - Usable Science: Meeting the Needs of Decision Makers in a Changing World

OOS 75 - The Effects of Drought on the Formation, Resilience, and Recovery of Xylem Embolism in Plants: Linking Experimental Results and Synthesizing Observations

OOS 76 - Trait-Based Ecology at the Micro-Scale

OOS 77 - Science at the Frontier of Understanding "Natural Infrastructure": Societal Benefits of Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

OOS 78 - Predicting Range Shifts in Response to Ongoing Environmental Change Using Dynamic Modelling Approaches

OOS 79 - Beyond the Spreadsheet: Data Integration and Informatics for the Next Century of Ecology

OOS 80 - External Influences on Ecological Theory: The Effects of Economic, Sociopolitical, Climatic, and Other Conditions

OOS 81 - Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Supports 21st Century Ecological Research

SYMP 19 - How Basic Ecology Has and Will Continue to Shape Conservation Science

SYMP 20 - Ecological Economics and Planetary Stewardship: Making Up for Lost Time

SYMP 21 - Scaling in Ecology: Building a Synthetic and Predictive Science for the Next 100 Years

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


IGN 15 - Understanding of the Dynamics and Controls of Primary Productivity in a Changing World

4:30 PM-6:30 PM


- Meet the Editors of the ESA Journals

OPS 6 - College Campus Natural Areas As Living Laboratories for Teaching and Research

OPS 7 - Pair Power: Developing the Next Generation of Ecologists through Collaboration

PS 61 - Education: Community-Based Learning

PS 62 - Education: Pedagogy

PS 63 - Education: Research And Assessment

PS 64 - Education: Tools And Technology

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 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis

PS 73 - Spatial Analysis And GIS

PS 74 - Sampling

PS 75 - Behavior

PS 76 - Population Dynamics And Regulation

PS 77 - Physiological Ecology

PS 78 - Evolution

PS 79 - Life History Theory And Evolution

PS 80 - Ecological Genetics

PS 81 - Genetics And Molecular Techniques

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


TK 6 - ESA 100 Year Birthday Bash!

Friday, August 14, 2015

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7:30 AM-9:30 PM


FT 17 - Ecologists Go to Washington: Exploring the Frontier of Ecology and Public Policy

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


IGN 16 - Heterogeneity in Animal Disease Ecology: Then and Now

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


COS 133 - Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change

COS 134 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients II

COS 135 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology II

COS 136 - Community Pattern And Dynamics VI

COS 137 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory II

COS 138 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience

COS 139 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems

COS 140 - Fire

COS 141 - Food Webs II

COS 142 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

COS 143 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, And Diversity

COS 144 - Microbial Ecology III

COS 145 - Modeling: Populations II

COS 146 - Mutualism And Facilitation

COS 147 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis

COS 148 - Restoration Ecology IV

COS 149 - Statistics

COS 150 - Temperate Forests II

COS 151 - Urban Ecosystems IV

OOS 82 - Terrestrial Carbon Cycle and Nonautonomous Systems

OOS 83 - Bees Across Urban Environments: Social and Ecological Forces

OOS 84 - Bridging Ecology and Community-Based Planning Towards Earth Stewardship

OOS 85 - The Community Ecology of Host-Symbiont Interactions: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Scales

OOS 86 - Coastal Wetlands in a Changing World: Drivers of Carbon Storage and Loss

OOS 87 - Creative Approaches for Addressing Ecological Uncertainty in Earth System Models

OOS 88 - Extreme Disturbance Events Leading to Forest Ecosystem Change

OOS 89 - Evolutionary Responses to Directional Climate Change

OOS 90 - Cross-Scale Perspectives: Integrating Long-Term and High-Frequency Data into Our Understanding of Communities and Ecosystems

OOS 91 - Agroecosystems and Processes of Global Change

OOS 92 - Ecological Acoustics: Conceptual and Technological Advances in Ecology Through Sound

SYMP 22 - Ecological Implications of Endemism Hotspots As Climate Change Refugia

SYMP 23 - Global Ecology in the Era of Big Data: Challenges and Promises for Plant Ecology in the 21st Century

SYMP 24 - The Role of Ecology in Achieving Global Food Security

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


PS 82 - Latebreaking: Agriculture

PS 83 - Latebreaking: Aquatic Ecology

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Behavior

PS 85 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 86 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Community Ecology

PS 89 - Latebreaking: Conservation

PS 90 - Latebreaking: Disease Ecology

PS 91 - Latebreaking: Distributions And Range Limits

PS 92 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Function

PS 93 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Management

PS 94 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 95 - Latebreaking: Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

PS 96 - Latebreaking: Evolution

PS 97 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 98 - Latebreaking: Grasslands And Steppes

PS 99 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 100 - Latebreaking: Microbial Ecology

PS 101 - Latebreaking: Modeling

PS 102 - Latebreaking: Physiology

PS 103 - Latebreaking: Population Ecology

PS 104 - Latebreaking: Restoration Ecology

PS 105 - Latebreaking: Species Interactions

PS 106 - Latebreaking: Sustainbility

PS 107 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecology

10:00 AM-11:30 AM


IGN 17 - Ecology and Management of Source-Sink Dynamics

11:30 AM-2:00 PM


- ESA Buell/Braun Student Award Committee Meeting