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

Saturday, August 8, 2015

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

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

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

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

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 21^st-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

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

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 21^st 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

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