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Schedule of Sessions SYMP: Symposia should consist of focused, integrated number of OPS’s that may be accepted each year. Organized presentations assessing current understanding regarding a poster sessions are scheduled concurrently with the regular particular research problem, concept, application, or educational poster sessions on specially marked boards. theme. Generally, symposia should have broad appeal within COS: Contributed oral sessions are collections of submitted the ecological community or involve integration across abstracts each organized around a common study taxon, sub-disciplines. Symposia focused within particular areas of ecosystem, subdiscipline, concept/process, or tool/application. ecology may be considered if these are areas of particularly Contributed abstracts are reviewed and organized by the Program active research, or if the symposia offer important new insights. Chairs and Program Coordinator. Symposia may integrate historical perspectives explicitly, but this should generally be in the context of understanding current WK: Workshops are intended to convey specific knowledge or research and research questions. Presentations should offer new skills; they are not intended for the presentation of research results and syntheses; speakers should not simply review papers. Workshops are frequently more interactive and informal previous work and results. No more than 24 symposia can be than sessions within the formal scientific program, and are not accepted for an Annual Meeting. scheduled concurrently with symposia, organized oral, contributed oral, or poster sessions. Workshops may involve one OOS: Organized oral sessions allow a wider range of thematic or several teachers/presenters, and may include computer-based and conceptual options than symposia. Presentations included in or other ‘hands-on’ training. Weekend workshops may be linked an OOS must be topically coherent, but explicit synthetic with a scientific field trip. Workshop proposals should make clear overview is not required, and sessions need not have broad what participants might expect to gain. Limits of space and time disciplinary or cross-disciplinary appeal. OOS’s are particularly may make it impossible to accommodate all worthy submissions. well suited for sets of related case studies, for specialized themes, or for presenting new work that does not yet admit of the SS: The ESA Annual Meetings include a wide range of events that synthesis called for in a symposium. Sessions may focus, for do not conform to the criteria for the scientific sessions, example, on a particular conceptual question, management workshops, or field trips. These ‘special sessions’ have included, problem, ecological process, or other unifying theme. A strong for example, panel discussions, open discussions, lectures, and OOS proposal will provide a broad sampling of research in the film screenings. Special sessions can permit extended dialogue, topical area. OOS’s may generate ideas for subsequent symposia. and may be vehicles for planning future events or organizations. Up to (but no more than) eight speakers should be invited by Whatever its format, a special session should have some bearing session organizers and listed in the proposal; at least two on ecological science or education, broadly construed. Special speakers will be added subsequently by the Program Chair from sessions are open to all meeting registrants, although a ticket the contributed abstracts. There is no limit on the number of may be required for food or beverages. OOS’s that may be accepted each year. PS: Poster sessions are collections of submitted abstracts each OPS: Organized poster sessions are thematically and conceptually organized around a common study taxon, ecosystem, equivalent to organized oral sessions. Each OPS consists of a set subdiscipline, concept/process, or tool/application. Contributed of posters in multiples of 5. A strong OPS proposal will provide a abstracts are reviewed and organized by the Program Chairs and broad sampling of research in the topical area. OPS’s may Program Coordinator. generate ideas for subsequent symposia. There is no limit on the THURSDAY Thursday, August 4 7 am-6 pm 1 pm-5 pm CANCELED FT 3 - Endangered Species and the Military: Management of Sensitive Natural Resources on Fort Hood, CANCELED FT 1 - Big Bend National Park - Texas Chihuahuan Desert Diversity (4 days 3 overnights) Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Organized by: G Eckrich ([email protected]), Organized by: DJ Leavitt ([email protected]) TJ Hayden ([email protected]) Saturday, August 6 8 am-1 pm SATURDAY 6:30 am-5:30 pm FT 5 - A Day on the Blackland Prairie: Changes Wrought by Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, the Proliferation of CANCELED FT 2 - The Balcones Canyonlands Preserve: Exotic Plants, and Land Use Changes Managing for Multiple Endangered Species in an Urban Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Preserve System Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Organized by: HW Polley, PA Fay ([email protected]), BJ Wilsey ([email protected]) Organized by: L O’Donnell, L Laack Earth Stewardship: Preserving and enhancing earth’s life support systems 33 8 am-7 pm 8 am-4 pm 9 am-4:30 pm CANCELED FT 4 - Arid Mesquite Savanna of South Texas: CANCELED FT 8 - Action Ecology for All: Discovering the Comparing Native and Modified Landscapes (OVERNIGHT) Oak Springs and Other Urban Socioecological Projects In Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Austin while Planting Ecological Knowledge with Poder Organized by: L Gilbert ([email protected]) Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Organized by: AE Pérez-Quintero ([email protected]), 8 am-5 pm L Lastra-Díaz ([email protected]), B Otero, LM Moreno (lorna. [email protected]) SATURDAY Governing Board Meeting Austin Suite, Austin Convention Center 9 am-6 pm FT 9 - The National Vegetation Classification: Exploring the 8 am-9 pm Unique Vegetation of the Edwards Plateau Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center FT 6 - Landscape, ecosystem, and species diversity and Organized by: A McKerrow ([email protected]), D Diamond conservation ranching in the Texas Hill Country ([email protected]), J Singhurst (Jason.Singhurst@tpwd. Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center state.tx.us) Organized by: WE Rogers, FE Smeins 4 pm-7 pm 8:30 am-4:30 pm ESA SEEDS Student Orientation Skyline, Radisson Hotel WK 1 - Analysis of Multivariate Time-Series Data Using State-Space Models 14, Austin Convention Center Organized by: EE Holmes ([email protected]), M Scheuerell, EJ Ward This workshop covers the use of multivariate state-space models for analysis of ecological time-series data under situations where there are known and unknown measurement errors, unobserved states, multiple data sources or sites, and missing values. 8:30 am-6 pm CANCELED FT 7 - Endangered Landscapes: Fire, Restoration, and Avian Ecology of the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Organized by: JD White 9 am-12 pm WK 2 - Finding, Accessing and Using NASA Data and Tools for Ecology Research 12B, Austin Convention Center Organized by: J Brennan ([email protected]), T Beaty This workshop will provide the attendee with information regarding how to find, access and use NASA Earth science data that can be useful to the ecological research community. Spatial analysis, subsetting, visualization, and online data ordering tools will be featured. Speakers: J Brennan, NASA T Maiersperger, NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) SS Vanaan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 34 ESA 96th Annual Meeting, August 7 - 12, 2011, Austin Convention Center 7 am-4:30 pm Sunday, August 7 8 am-4:30 pm 7 am-3 pm FT 14 - Urban Bioblitz: Ecologists Contributing to and Learning from a Progressive Austin Community FT 10 - Ecology, Hydrology and Management of Live Restoration Effort oak-Juniper Savannas on the Edwards Plateau Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center Organized by: G Bowser, CT Lee, H Balbach, M Armstrong Organized by: PW Barnes ([email protected]), S Schwinning ([email protected]) ([email protected]), GW Moore ([email protected]) 8 am-5 pm 7 am-5 pm FT 11 - Karst, Caves and Quercus: Where in the Soil-Rock WK 4 - A Brief Introduction to Bayesian and Hierarchical System Do Trees Roots Fit In? Bayesian Modeling in Ecology Trinity Street Lobby Field Trip Pick Up, Austin Convention Center 16A, Austin Convention Center Organized by: BF Schwartz Organized by: K Ogle ([email protected]), I Ibanez, M Dietze This workshop provides a brief introduction to Bayesian and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. It includes presentation and 8 am-12 pm discussion of basic concepts, including important elements of Bayesian statistics and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. Participants ESA Governing Board Meeting will have the opportunity to develop and implement a Bayesian Austin Suite, Austin Convention Center model in OpenBUGS. WK 3 - Analysing biodiversity experiments using WK 5 - Photography for Ecologists: Diversity-Interaction models Part 1. Capturing Powerful Images 14, Austin Convention Center 13, Austin Convention Center Organized by:
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