2020 ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 - 6)

SYMP 9 - ESA Early Career Fellows and Mercer Award Symposium I

Tuesday, August 4, 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Organizer:
David Post
Co-organizer:
Katharine N. Suding
Moderator:
David Post
This symposium will showcase the research of ESA Early Career Fellows and the Mercer Award winner. Early Career Fellows are members recognized for advancing ecological knowledge and for their promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to ecology. The Mercer Award is given by ESA for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication. Talks will span the field of ecology and highlight new directions in ecological research.
3:00 PM
Impacts of climate on vector-borne disease transmission
Erin Mordecai, Stanford University; Jamie M. Caldwell, University of Hawai‘i; Marissa Grossman, Perspecta; Catherine Lippi, University of Florida; Leah R. Johnson, Virginia Tech; Marco Neira, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador; Jason R. Rohr, University of Notre Dame; Sadie J. Ryan, University of Florida; Van M. Savage, UCLA; Marta Shocket, University of California Los Angeles; Rachel Sippy, University of Florida; Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; Matthew B. Thomas, Penn State University; Oswaldo Villena, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; A. Desiree LaBeaud, Stanford University; Eric F. Lambin, Stanford University; Melisa Shah, Stanford University; Lisa I. Couper, Stanford University
3:40 PM
Mechanisms of microbial community resilience
Ashley Shade, Michigan State University
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