2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11)

2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11)

Saturday, August 5, 2017

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7:00 AM-6:00 PM

FT 1 - Messages from the Mountain: Reflections on 36 Years of Ecosystem Responses Following the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

WK 1 - CANCELLED- Engaging K-12 Educators in Authentic Ecology and Education Learning

WK 19 - CANCELLED: Structural Equation Modeling: An Introduction

8:00 AM-4:30 PM

FT 2 - Field-to-Collection Bioblitz in Forest Park: Creating Lasting Records of Biodiversity

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

WK 2 - An Introduction to Structured Decision Making for Natural Resources Management

WK 3 - Data Carpentry in Ecology

WK 4 - Ecological Field Course Design: Teach Where the Magic Happens

WK 5 - Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package

8:00 AM-5:45 PM

FT 3 - Natural History of the Columbia River Gorge: Day Hiking Organized By the Natural History Section

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

12:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 6 - Strategies to Engage Middle and High School Students in Ecological Learning

5:00 PM-8:00 PM

- SEEDS Student Orientation (Invitation Only)

5:00 PM-9:00 PM

WK 7 - Saturday Night Special! Get the Job: Strategies and Tactics for Early-Career Ecologists in Finding and Landing Your Dream Career

Sunday, August 6, 2017

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7:00 AM-7:00 PM

FT 4 - Mount Rainier National Park: An Icon on the Horizon

7:30 AM-6:45 PM

FT 5 - Vegetation and Ecology of the South Prairie Botanical Area and the White Salmon Oak NRCA, Washington

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

WK 8 - Introduction to Community Data Analysis Using the vegan Package in R

WK 9 - Learning Activities and Tools for Teaching Global Climate Change through Student-Centered Explorations

WK 10 - Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics in R

WK 11 - CANCELLED: Preserving Proper Programs for Posterity: Open-Source Tools for increasing the Transparency and Reproducibility of Ecological Analysis

WK 12 - Reproducible Research with R, Git, and GitHub

WK 13 - Teach Inquiry-Based Ecology with a Citizen Science Trail Camera Project

WK 14 - The Empiricists’ Guide to the Analysis of Biodiversity Data Across Scales

WK 15 - Unstructured and Qualitative Data on Socio-Ecological Systems

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

WK 16 - A Hands-On Short Course on Species Distribution Modeling in Conservation Using R: From Start to Finish

WK 17 - Exploring Diverse Career Pathways in Ecology

WK 18 - CANCELLED - Simple App Creation for Ecologists Using MIT App Inventor

WK 20 - CANCELLED - Using Digitized Data from Natural History Collections in Ecological Research

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

- ESA Governing Board Meeting

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

FT 6 - Improving Landscape Scale Biodiversity through Rural Partnerships

9:00 AM-2:30 PM

FT 7 - Urban Ecology Bicycle Field Trip: Art, Restoration, and Community

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

FT 8 - Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Fire-Restoration of Ecological and Tribal Significant Habitats in the Willamette Valley

12:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 21 - Advanced Community Data Analysis Using the vegan Package in R

WK 22 - Data Visualization Using R and ggplot

WK 23 - Firming Up Your Soft Skills: A Crash Course in Team Science for Ecologists

WK 24 - Introduction to Matrix Population Models and Comparative Population Biology Using the COM(P)ADRE Matrix Databases

WK 25 - Managing Ecological Data for Effective Use and Re-Use: A Workshop for Early Career Scientists

WK 26 - Resources for Ecology Education - Fair and Share (REEFS)

WK 27 - Video in a Hurry (and on a Shoestring)

WK 28 - CANCELLED - How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Multivariate Analyses

WK 29 - Working with Time Series in R Using NEON Data

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

- ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting

- ESA Governing Council Orientation

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

- ESA Governing Council Business Meeting and Reception

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

- Presider and A/V Volunteer Training I

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

- SEEDS Mentor Orientation (Invitation Only)

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

- Opening Plenary

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- ESA Welcome Reception

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

- SEEDS Welcome Dinner (Invitation Only)

Monday, August 7, 2017

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- SEEDS Mentor/Mentee Breakfast

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

- Scientific Plenary And Awards Session

10:15 AM-11:30 AM

- New Phytologist Trust Keynote Speaker

SS 1 - Creating Effective Data Management Plans for Ecological Research

SS 2 - Functional Diversity of Microbiomes: Integrating Human Biology and Ecology Towards New Avenues of Analysis

SS 3 - Improv Your Science: Building Skills for Effective Communication

SS 4 - Overview and Status of the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2), an Interagency Sustained National Climate Assessment Report

SS 5 - Putting Policy into Practice: Achieving Sustainable Groundwater Management for People and Nature

SS 6 - Sense of Place-Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Tribal Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest

SS 7 - Standing on the Shoulders of Clients: Evolving Cyberinfrastructure in the Ecological Sciences

SS 8 - Student Orientation: Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of the Meeting

SS 9 - The Critical Importance of Field Education in a Changing World

SS 10 - What Should We Measure? Remote Sensing for Monitoring Biodiversity with Essential Biodiversity Variables

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

- Presider and A/V Volunteer Training II

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Joint Editors' Luncheon (by invitation only)

- ESA Past Presidents Forum (by invitation only)

- Functional Diversity of Microbiomes: Integrating Human Biology and Ecology Towards New Avenues of Analysis - Working lunch (By Invitation Only)

- TEK Section Business Meeting

WK 30 - Accessing Research Funding from Federal Agencies: An Early Career Networking Session

WK 31 - Branding Is Not a Dirty Word: Marketing Yourself and Your Science in a Digital World

WK 32 - Networking for Nerds: Become a Networking Rock Star

WK 33 - Course-Based Research in Your Ecology Course: Yes, You Can Do This!

WK 34 - Getting the Job at a PUI: Lessons from Department Chairs and Search Committee Members

WK 35 - How to Participate in Public Policy and Communicate with Congress

WK 36 - Promoting Persistence in Science through Enhancing Culturally Relevant Mentoring

WK 37 - The Importance of Networking and Section Involvement

WK 38 - CANCELLED: Using DNA Samples Collected at Different Times in Phylodynamics Studies: A Practical Approach with the R Package “TipDatingBeast”

WK 39 - Using the NEON API

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

IGN 1 - Diversity and Biodiversity: How Students Connected Ecosystem Services, Citizen Science, and Biodiversity in the National Parks

IGN 2 - Sustainable Development Goals: Can Ecologists Help Them Transform our World?

1:30 PM-3:30 PM

- Editorial Board Meeting for Ecology and Ecological Monographs

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 1 - Agriculture I

COS 2 - Biodiversity I

COS 3 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions

COS 4 - Climate Change: Plants I

COS 5 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory I

COS 6 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity I

COS 7 - Conservation Management I

COS 8 - Detritus And Decomposition

COS 9 - Distributions And Range Limits I

COS 10 - Ecosystem Function

COS 11 - Ecosystem Services Assessment I

COS 12 - Grasslands/Steppe

COS 13 - Herbivory

COS 14 - Invasion I

COS 15 - Invasion: Community Effects

COS 16 - Modeling I

COS 17 - Mycorrhizae

COS 18 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions I

COS 19 - Phenology I

COS 20 - Physiology I

COS 21 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis I

COS 22 - Restoration Ecology I

COS 23 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions I

COS 24 - Urban Ecosystems I

OOS 1 - Biodiversity and Human Diversity for Ecosystem Health and Sustainability in a World of Change

OOS 2 - Cutting-Edge Remote Sensing Applications in Ecology: Spanning Scales, Sensors, and Ecosystems

OOS 3 - Delineating the Assembly Mechanisms Shaping Microbial Community Structure: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives of Novel Approaches

OOS 4 - Dynamics of Population Spread and Range Expansion in an Era of Global Change

OOS 5 - Integrating Trait-Based Ecology Across Plants and Microbes to Predict Ecosystem Functioning

OOS 6 - The Impact of Global Change on Chemically Mediated Species Interactions and Ecosystem Services

SYMP 1 - Aquatic Ecosystem Services in a Changing World

SYMP 2 - Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Possibilities and Challenges of Merging Ecological Networks Across Interaction Types

SYMP 3 - The Endangered Species Act Under Attack: Opportunities for Independent Science

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

IGN 3 - Engagement 2.0: Increasing Our Collective Impact

IGN 4 - Try This to Help Students Learn Ecology Better

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

OPS 1 - U.S. National Vegetation Classification: Advancing the Description and Management of the Nation’s Ecosystems

PS 1 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions

PS 2 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

PS 3 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients

PS 4 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change

PS 5 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects On Biogeo Processes

PS 6 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function

PS 7 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling

PS 8 - Detritus And Decomposition

PS 9 - Disease And Epidemiology

PS 10 - Ecosystem Function

PS 11 - Invasion

PS 12 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

PS 13 - Invasion: Prevention And Management

PS 14 - Invasion: Species Interactions

PS 15 - Physiology

4:30 PM-7:30 PM

FT 9 - A Tour of Portland’s Ecoroofs Via Aerial Tram

5:00 PM-5:45 PM

- ESA Awards Recipients' Reception (by invitation only)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

- Environmental Biology Careers for the Next Generation

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer

- ESA Joint Section Mixer (Agroecology, Applied, Black Ecologists, Early Career, Education, Human, Inclusive, Justice, Long-Term Studies, TEK, and Urban Sections; Southwest Chapter)

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

- Microbial Ecology Section Mixer

- Science Advances Reception

- Utah State University Ecology Center Social

7:15 PM-8:45 PM

- Special Policy Forum

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 11 - Large Infrequent Disturbances: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

SS 12 - Our Living Environment: Causes and Strategies for Alleviating Impacts of Environmental Change on Minority Communities

SS 13 - Saving Historical Records: Challenges for Ecology and Its Historians in the 21st Century

SS 14 - Strategic Directions for ESA’s Support of K-12 Ecological Education

WK 40 - Archive and Publish your Ecological Research Data

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- ESA Soil Ecology Section Business Meeting

- ESA Student Mentor/Mentee Breakfast

- Early Career Mentorship Program Breakfast

- SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

- Southwest Chapter Breakfast Social And Business Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Meetings Committee Business Meeting

- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Editorial Board Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

IGN 5 - Art and Science Collaboration: Disciplinary Diversity As a Means of Exploring Ecological Systems and Value Structures

IGN 6 - Trait-Based Methods for Representing Change in Belowground Ecosystems

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 25 - Agriculture II

COS 26 - Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic Systems

COS 27 - Biodiversity II

COS 28 - Biogeochemistry: Atmospheric N Deposition Effects

COS 29 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function I

COS 30 - Climate Change: Plants II

COS 31 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory II

COS 32 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity II

COS 33 - Conservation Management II

COS 34 - Disease And Epidemiology I

COS 35 - Distributions And Range Limits II

COS 36 - Ecosystem Services Assessment II

COS 37 - Food Webs

COS 38 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

COS 39 - Invasion II

COS 40 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes

COS 41 - Modeling II

COS 42 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions II

COS 43 - Phenology II

COS 44 - Physiology II

COS 45 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis II

COS 46 - Restoration Ecology II

COS 47 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions II

COS 48 - Urban Ecosystems II

OOS 7 - Advancing Ecological Theory through Synthesis of Long-Term Ecological Research

OOS 8 - Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps

OOS 9 - Consequences of Individual Variation in Dispersal for Recruitment, Populations, and Communities

OOS 10 - Designed Urban Ecosystems as Habitat for Biodiversity: Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit

OOS 11 - Ecoclimate Teleconnections: Global Connectivity Between Ecosystems with Consequences for Biodiversity, Material Cycling, and Ecosystem Services in a Changing World

OOS 12 - Investigating Structure-Function Relationships in Microbial Communities

SYMP 4 - A Tree Grew in Seattle Producing a Profusion of Seeds, Saplings and Trees: Honoring the Diverse and Profound Legacy of RT Paine

SYMP 5 - Has Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone Provided Evidence for a Trophic Cascade?

SYMP 6 - New Approaches and Challenges for the Next Generation of Biodiversity Models

8:00 AM-1:00 PM

FT 10 - Ecology for Cities: Exploring Green Infrastructure in Portland

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

- ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification Meeting

8:30 AM-1:00 PM

FT 11 - Restoring Ecosystem Services in the Urban Environment

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

IGN 7 - Ecological Art-Science Collaborations

IGN 8 - Integrating Microbial Silos to Enhance Ecosystem Services

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

- Presider and A/V Volunteer Training III

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- Christian Ecologists Mixer

- ESA Awards Committee Business Meeting

- Ecosphere Editorial Board Meeting

- Environmental Justice Section Business Meeting

- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Ecologist Brownbag Lunch

- Latin America Chapter Business Meeting

- Rapid Response Team Luncheon

- Theoretical Ecology Editorial Board Lunch

WK 41 - A First Look at the Fully Functional NEON Mobile Observation Platform

WK 42 - Transitioning Your Career Beyond Academia

WK 43 - Communicating Science, Increasing the Impact of Ecology, and #EngageESA: Tools for Ecologists

WK 44 - Linking Biodiversity, Material Cycling and Ecosystem Services in a Changing World with the Paris Climate Agreement

WK 45 - Long-Term Restoration of Forest Ecosystems Following Severe Wildfires

WK 46 - Navigating NSF: Opportunities for Funding Research and Training at All Career Stages

WK 47 - Phenomenal Ecology in the Classroom: Turning Phenomena into Something Phenomenal for K-12 Learning

WK 48 - SEEDS Chapter Workshop

WK 49 - Which of the Following Is True: We Can Write Better Multiple Choice Questions

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

- 500 Women Scientists - Promoting Diversity in Ecology

- Paleoecology Section Business Meeting

- Phenology Brown Bag Lunch

- Rangeland Ecology Section Business Meeting

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

IGN 9 - Beyond the Data Life Cycle: Tips and Techniques for Working with Ecological Data

IGN 10 - Which Trees in Your Urban Forest like It Hotter and Drier Than It Is Right Now?

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 49 - Biodiversity III

COS 50 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients I

COS 51 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function II

COS 52 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles

COS 53 - Climate Change: Plants III

COS 54 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory III

COS 55 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity III

COS 56 - Conservation Management III

COS 57 - Disease And Epidemiology II

COS 58 - Dispersal And Colonization

COS 59 - Ecosystem Services Assessment III

COS 60 - Education: Research And Assessment

COS 61 - Environmental Gradients

COS 62 - Fisheries Management And Models

COS 63 - Genetics And Molecular Techniques

COS 64 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

COS 65 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession I

COS 66 - Mutualism And Facilitation I

COS 67 - Physiology III

COS 68 - Plant-Insect Interactions I

COS 69 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis III

COS 70 - Restoration Ecology III

COS 71 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions III

COS 72 - Urban Ecosystems III

OOS 13 - Advances in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science: Building on the Work of Harold A. Mooney

OOS 14 - Challenges and Opportunities for Investigating Ecological Communities Across Space and Time: Insights from Coordinated Research Networks

OOS 15 - Ecological Forecasting: Advances and Opportunities

OOS 16 - Interactions Among Insects, Pathogens, and Drought in Tree Stress and Mortality

OOS 17 - Microbes in Modernity: Microbial Responses to Anthropogenic Change

OOS 18 - The Ecological Impacts of Wind Energy Development: Balancing Wildlife Conservation and the Need to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

SYMP 7 - Dynamic Approaches to Changing Communities

SYMP 8 - Integrating Ecological Science into Policy and Management for Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Keys to Success

SYMP 9 - Towards a Unified Framework for Functional Traits and Life History Strategies in Plants

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

IGN 11 - Advances in Science to Guide Forest Management in the Northwest Forest Plan Area

IGN 12 - Replication in Ecology

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

- Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

OPS 2 - Diversity and Biodiversity: How Students Connected Ecosystem Services, Citizen Science, and Biodiversity in the National Parks

PS 16 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

PS 17 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

PS 18 - Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

PS 19 - Biodiversity

PS 20 - Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change

PS 21 - Education: Community-Based Learning

PS 22 - Education: Pedagogy

PS 23 - Education: Research And Assessment

PS 24 - Education: Tools & Technology

PS 25 - Estuarine

PS 26 - Forests

PS 27 - Grasslands/Steppe

PS 28 - Soil

PS 29 - Urban Ecosystems

PS 30 - Wetlands

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

- SESYNC Mixer

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- Drought-Net Meeting

- ESA Asian Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

- ESA Biogeosciences and Soil Ecology Joint Mixer

- ESA Fund for the Future Donor Reception (Invitation Only)

- Ecological Restoration Mixer

- Education Section Business Meeting

- Hal Mooney's Reception

- Invasion Ecology Business Meeting and Mixer

- Natural History Section Mixer

- Oecologia Editors' Reception

- Science Communication Section's Business Meeting

- Theoretical Ecology and the Statistical Ecology Sections Joint Mixer

- University of Florida Mixer

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

- Policy Section Business Meeting

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

- Student Section Mixer

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 15 - Creativity in Ecology: Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

SS 16 - Enhancing Diversity in Ecology: Planning for Strategic Coordination Among ESA Sections

SS 17 - Implementing ESA’s 4DEE Framework to Transform Your Undergraduate Ecology Course

SS 18 - Local Ecology-Policy Connections in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond

WK 50 - How to Promote a Healthy Culture in Your Academic Department

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

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7:00 AM-8:00 AM

- Committee for Diversity and Education Business Meeting

- Mid Atlantic Chapter Mentoring and Recruiting Event for Students and Early Career Ecologists (Limited to 50 Attendants)

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- ESA Historical Records Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Meetings Committee Business Meeting

- ESA Publications Committee (By Invitation)

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

- Public Affairs Committee Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

IGN 13 - Bloom and Bust: Ecological Consequences of Precipitation Variability in Aridlands

IGN 14 - Connecting Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science in the Anthropocene

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 73 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes And Ponds

COS 74 - Behavior I

COS 75 - Biodiversity IV

COS 76 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along Environmental Gradients II

COS 77 - Biogeochemistry: Linking Community Structure And Ecosystem Function III

COS 78 - Climate Change: Communities I

COS 79 - Climate Change: Plants IV

COS 80 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery I

COS 81 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients I

COS 82 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity IV

COS 83 - Conservation Management IV

COS 84 - Disease And Epidemiology III

COS 85 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment I

COS 86 - Forest And Rangeland Management

COS 87 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, And Diversity I

COS 88 - Life History Theory And Evolution

COS 89 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession II

COS 90 - Mutualism And Facilitation II

COS 91 - Physiology IV

COS 92 - Plant-Insect Interactions II

COS 93 - Restoration Ecology IV

COS 94 - Species Interactions I

COS 95 - Statistics

COS 96 - Urban Ecosystems IV

OOS 19 - Beyond Biodiversity in Urban Agriculture Research: Ecosystem Services, Social Dimensions, and Management Applications

OOS 20 - Ecological Succession in a Changing World

OOS 21 - Integrating Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity to Understand the Delivery of Ecosystem Services

OOS 22 - Linking Biodiversity, Material Cycling, and Ecosystem Services in Coastal Ecosystems

OOS 23 - Linking Fire, Fuels, and Biological Diversity

OOS 24 - Permafrost Microbial Ecology and Climate Change

OOS 25 - Planning for Serendipity: The Importance of Surprises in Long-Term Ecological Research

SYMP 10 - Animating the Carbon Cycle

SYMP 11 - Ecological Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory: Scaling from Functional Traits to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

SYMP 12 - People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest

8:00 AM-12:30 PM

FT 12 - A Tour of the City of Portland's Green Infrastructure

8:00 AM-1:00 PM

FT 13 - Portland's Urban Ecosystems

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

IGN 15 - What Is the Single Greatest Threat to Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World?

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Science Committee Meeting

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

- Refugia Research Coalition Lunch

- Storytelling Social for Science Communication

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

- Agroecology Brown Bag Lunch

- Carleton College Alumni and Friends Bag Lunch

- ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Business Meeting

- Human Ecology Section Business Meeting

- SEEDS Careers Workshop (Invitation Only)

- Tutorial for ESA Chapter/Section Website Updates

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

- Recent Advances Lecture

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

FT 14 - Biodiversity in Portland’s International Rose Test Garden and Hoyt Arboretum

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

IGN 16 - Multiple Common Garden Experiments for Meeting Restoration Challenges: Difficulties and Potential Pitfalls

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 97 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers

COS 98 - Behavior II

COS 99 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change I

COS 100 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling I

COS 101 - Climate Change: Communities II

COS 102 - Climate Change: Plants V

COS 103 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery II

COS 104 - Communities: Paleoecology And Long-Term Dynamics

COS 105 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients II

COS 106 - Competition

COS 107 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory I

COS 108 - Disease And Epidemiology IV

COS 109 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems I

COS 110 - Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment II

COS 111 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation I

COS 112 - Fire I

COS 113 - Forests: Boreal And Subalpine

COS 114 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, And Diversity II

COS 115 - Modeling: Populations I

COS 116 - Pollination I

COS 117 - Population Dynamics And Regulation I

COS 118 - Restoration Ecology V

COS 119 - Species Interactions II

COS 120 - Urban Ecosystems V

OOS 26 - A Worldwide Perspective on the Bidirectional Interactions Between Plant Communities and Global Change in Alpine-Arctic Regions

OOS 27 - Ecology of a Rapidly Changing Arctic

OOS 28 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Performance and Socio-Ecological Function of Green Infrastructure

OOS 29 - Linking Terrestrial Nitrogen Fixation, Element Cycling, and Biodiversity in a Changing World

OOS 30 - The Extended Phenotype of Microbial Communities: When and How Do Microbes Affect Plants, Animals, and Their Interactions?

OOS 31 - Understanding the Relationships Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at the Scale of Real-World Landscapes

SYMP 13 - Bringing Translational Ecology into the Mainstream: Surmounting Barriers, Seizing Opportunities

SYMP 14 - Linking Functional Traits to Species Coexistence in Changing Environments

SYMP 15 - Wicked Problems in Ecology Teaching and Learning: Biodiversity, Material Cycling, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

IGN 17 - Putting Ecology to Work: How to Design for Nutrient Spirals, Biodiversity, and Biophilia Along the Urban-to-Rural Gradient

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

- Q & A with ESA Board of Professional Certification

PS 31 - Agriculture

PS 32 - Climate Change

PS 33 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles

PS 34 - Climate Change: Plants

PS 35 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology

PS 36 - Conservation Management

PS 37 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory

PS 38 - Ecosystem Management

PS 39 - Ecosystem Services Assessment

PS 40 - Environmental Gradients

PS 41 - Evolution

PS 42 - Genetics And Molecular Techniques

PS 43 - Modeling

PS 44 - Modeling: Populations

PS 45 - Remote Sensing And Image Analysis

PS 46 - Restoration Ecology

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

- Green Infrastructure Post-Session Mixer

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

- CSU Mixer

- Disease Ecology Section Mixer

- Earth Stewardship Initiative Demonstration Project Reception

- Ecosystems 20th Anniversary Reception

- Joint Menge-Lubchenco Research Group Mixer

- Minority Ecologists Networking Reception and Forum (Invitation only). Sponsored by ESA SEEDS.

- Physiological Ecology Mixer And Business Meeting

- Plant Population Ecology Section Mixer

- Public Engagement for Ecologists: A Gathering to Exchange Ideas, Experiences, and Support

- Springer Nature Storytellers Live at ESA: Sips, Snacks, and Stories about Ecology told by Researchers Themselves

- UC Davis Ecology Mixer

- University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology Mixer

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

- Science Stories: an evening of entertainment sponsored by NCEAS, LTER and SNAPP

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 19 - How Can Current and Future Satellite Missions Advance Biodiversity Science? a Discussion of Current Tools and Future Ideas.

SS 20 - Integrating Ecology into Faith Community Education: How Ecologists Can Engage a New Initiative to Shape Ecological Literacy and Environmental Justice

SS 22 - Translational Ecology: Building Capacity, Cultivating Community

WK 51 - What Editors Want: An Author's Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing

Thursday, August 10, 2017

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7:00 AM-9:00 AM

- Issues in Ecology Advisory Board

8:00 AM-8:55 AM

- Exhibit Advisory Breakfast

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

IGN 18 - A Pioneer’s Legacy: Ant Ecologists Honor Mary Talbot

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 121 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages I

COS 122 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet

COS 123 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change II

COS 124 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling II

COS 125 - Climate Change: Plants VI

COS 126 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology I

COS 127 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery III

COS 128 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients III

COS 129 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory II

COS 130 - Disease And Epidemiology V

COS 131 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I

COS 132 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience I

COS 133 - Education: Community-Based Learning

COS 134 - Effects Of Multiple Global Changes On Communities And Ecosystems II

COS 135 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation II

COS 136 - Fire II

COS 137 - Forests: Temperate I

COS 138 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity I

COS 139 - Invasion: Species Interactions I

COS 140 - Modeling: Populations II

COS 141 - Pollination II

COS 142 - Population Dynamics And Regulation II

COS 143 - Restoration Ecology VI

COS 144 - Species Interactions III

FT 15 - A Crosstown Walk on North Williams Street: Socioeconomic Gradients, Gentrification, and Environment

OOS 32 - Advancing Conservation Ecology through Integrative Modeling Approaches

OOS 33 - Community Ecology of Host-Associated Microbiomes: Using Ecological Theory to Advance Microbiology

OOS 34 - Evaluating Lags and Legacies of Drought Recovery

OOS 35 - Linking Management, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services Via Mechanistic Models

OOS 36 - Nutritional Ecology in a Changing World: The Transduction of Energy Between the Environment, Individuals and Communities

OOS 37 - Re-Establishing Consumer Communities and Consumer-Driven Function in Restored Ecosystems

OOS 38 - Will Climate Change Increase the Impacts of Invasive Species?

SYMP 16 - International Collaboration in Ecology: Common Keys to Success

SYMP 17 - Nitrogen in Terrestrial Ecosystems: New Paradigms

SYMP 18 - Transformations in Coupled Natural-Human Systems

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

IGN 19 - Put a Number on It: Quantitative Microbial Ecology for Deeper and Broader Scientific Impact

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

- ESA Diversity Luncheon

WK 52 - Introduction to Negotiation Strategies and Tactics

WK 53 - Comparative 'Omics and Modeling Microbial Community Interactions Using the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)

WK 54 - Data Nuggets and Data Jams: Strategies to Increase Your Broader Impacts and Student Quantitative Reasoning

WK 55 - Ecology from Space: How Can NASA Remote-Sensing Data Inform Your Research?

WK 56 - CANCELLED - Empowering Decision-Making through Scientific and Ethical Literacy at Standing Rock: An Interactive Socioscientific Primer for Educators and Students

WK 57 - Green Infrastructure Implementation and Monitoring in Portland Focusing on Experimental Research and Ecological Function

WK 58 - Inclusive Communication: Improving Conversations Through Consideration and Empathy

WK 59 - International Collaboration in Ecology: Why Should I and How Do I Do It?

WK 60 - Using Logic Models to Write Successful Grant Proposals

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

- Early Career Ecologist Section Business Meeting

- Student and Early Career Ecologist Section Joint Business Meeting

- Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Business Meeting

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

IGN 20 - Linking Ocean Food Systems & Ecology: A Call to Explore the Ecological Merits of Sustainable Ocean Farming in a Changing Ocean

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 145 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages II

COS 146 - Behavior: Migration And Movement I

COS 147 - Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change I

COS 148 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In Response To Global Change III

COS 149 - Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms In Biogeochem Cycling III

COS 150 - Climate Change I

COS 151 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology II

COS 152 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery IV

COS 153 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients IV

COS 154 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory III

COS 155 - Disease And Epidemiology VI

COS 156 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II

COS 157 - Ecosystem Management I

COS 158 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience II

COS 159 - Education: Pedagogy

COS 160 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation III

COS 161 - Fire III

COS 162 - Forests: Temperate II

COS 163 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity II

COS 164 - Invasion: Species Interactions II

COS 165 - Pollination III

COS 166 - Population Dynamics: Modeling I

COS 167 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions I

COS 168 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

OOS 39 - Dam Removal: A Synthesis of Existing Science and Its Implications for the Practice

OOS 40 - Does It Scale? Linking Plant-Microbe Mutualisms to Population, Community, and Ecosystem Dynamics

OOS 41 - Fungi and Global Change: Linking Diversity, Community Composition, and Ecosystem Function in a Changing World

OOS 42 - Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Interactions Among Plant, Microbial, and Biogeochemical Diversity

OOS 43 - Revealing the Causes and Consequences of Interaction Complexity Using Gradient-Based Ecological Networks

OOS 44 - Transcending Guilds: Mixotrophs and Omnivores As Regulators of Ecosystem Function

OOS 45 - Volcano Ecology: A Global Perspective on Biotic Assembly and Ecosystem Processes Following Explosive Volcanism

SYMP 19 - 20 Years of Insights into Social-Ecological Research from the Two Urban LTER Sites

SYMP 20 - From Microbes to Moles: Diversity in Soils Support Resilience in Ecosystem Services

SYMP 21 - Turn and Face the Strain: Changing Signatures of Niche Processes in Disease and Community Diversity

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

- SEEDS Closing Event

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

IGN 21 - Preparing the North American Agricultural and Forestry Sectors for Climate Change: An Introduction to the USDA Climate Hubs

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

PS 47 - Behavior

PS 48 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet

PS 49 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory

PS 50 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery

PS 51 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients

PS 52 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity

PS 53 - Dispersal And Colonization

PS 54 - Fire

PS 55 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

PS 56 - Herbivory

PS 57 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

PS 58 - Mutualism And Facilitation

PS 59 - Mycorrhizae

PS 60 - Pollination

PS 61 - Species Interactions

PS 62 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

- ESA Closing Conference Reception

Friday, August 11, 2017

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

IGN 22 - Our Sinking Coasts: Sea Level Rise Effects on Coastal Ecosystem Services

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 169 - Behavior: Migration And Movement II

COS 170 - Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change II

COS 171 - Biogeochemistry: Experimental Climate Change Effects On Biogeo Processes

COS 172 - Biogeochemistry: Scaling Processes From Genes To Ecosystems

COS 173 - Climate Change II

COS 174 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology III

COS 175 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients V

COS 176 - Communities: Succession

COS 177 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory IV

COS 178 - Disease And Epidemiology VII

COS 179 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity III

COS 180 - Ecosystem Management II

COS 181 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience III

COS 182 - Education: Tools & Technology

COS 183 - Evolution: Selection And Adaptation IV

COS 184 - Fire Management

COS 185 - Forests: Tropical

COS 186 - Invasion: Prevention And Management

COS 187 - Invasion: Species Interactions III

COS 188 - Pollination IV

COS 189 - Population Dynamics: Modeling II

COS 190 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions II

COS 191 - Soil

COS 192 - Wetlands

OOS 46 - Cascading Effects of Large Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Systems: Community-, Ecosystem- and Landscape-Level Consequences

OOS 47 - Phenology in a Community Context

OOS 48 - Plant-Soil Interactions in a Changing World: Exploring the Interface Between Global Change Drivers and Plant-Soil Feedbacks

OOS 49 - Urban Ecological Theory and Adaptive Land Management: From Patterns to Processes

OOS 50 - Using Data to Improve Models of Forest Dynamics

SYMP 22 - Beyond BEF: Integrating Community Assembly and Species Turnover into Biodiversity-Ecosystem-Function Research

SYMP 23 - Ecological Restoration for Multiple Ecosystem Services and the People Who Value Them

SYMP 24 - The Other Dimension of Biodiversity: Dominant Species As Drivers of Ecosystem Functioning and Services

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

PS 63 - Latebreaking: Agriculture

PS 64 - Latebreaking: Aquatic Ecology

PS 65 - Latebreaking: Behavior

PS 66 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 67 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 68 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 69 - Latebreaking: Communities

PS 70 - Latebreaking: Conservation Management

PS 71 - Latebreaking: Disease And Epidemiology

PS 72 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Management

PS 73 - Latebreaking: Ecosystem Services Assessment

PS 74 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 75 - Latebreaking: Environmental Impact And Risk Assessment

PS 76 - Latebreaking: Evolution

PS 77 - Latebreaking: Fire

PS 78 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 79 - Latebreaking: Genetics And Molecular Techniques

PS 80 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 81 - Latebreaking: Modeling

PS 82 - Latebreaking: Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 83 - Latebreaking: Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Population Dynamics And Regulation

PS 85 - Latebreaking: Remote Sensing And Image Analysis

PS 86 - Latebreaking: Restoration Ecology

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Species Interactions

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Statistics

PS 89 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecosystems

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

IGN 23 - Ecology in a 400+ ppm CO₂ World: Which Processes and Questions Should Rise to the Forefront of Global Change Science?