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Schedule of Sessions Schedule of Sessions SYMP: Symposia should consist of focused, integrated presentations COS: Contributed oral sessions are collections of submitted abstracts assessing current understanding regarding a particular research problem, each organized around a common study taxon, ecosystem, sub-discipline, concept, application, or educational theme. Generally, symposia should concept/process, or tool/application. Contributed abstracts are reviewed have broad appeal within the ecological community or involve integration and organized by the Program Chairs and Program Coordinator. across sub-disciplines. Symposia focused within particular areas of IGN: Ignite ESA is a session format where participants are given five ecology may be considered if these are areas of particularly active minutes to speak accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for research, or if the symposia offer important new insights. Symposia may 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The presentations integrate historical perspectives explicitly, but this should generally be in are meant to "ignite" the audience on a subject, i.e. to generate the context of understanding current research and research questions. awareness and to stimulate thought and action on the subjects Presentations should offer new results and syntheses; speakers should not presented. simply review previous work and results. No more than 24 symposia can be accepted for an Annual Meeting. PS: Poster sessions are collections of submitted abstracts each organized around a common study taxon, ecosystem, sub-discipline, concept/ OOS: Organized oral sessions allow a wider range of thematic and process, or tool/application. Contributed abstracts are reviewed and conceptual options than symposia. Presentations included in an OOS organized by the Program Chairs and Program Coordinator. must be topically coherent, but explicit synthetic overview is not required, and sessions need not have broad disciplinary or cross-disciplinary appeal. WK: Workshops are intended to convey specific knowledge or skills; OOS’s are particularly well suited for sets of related case studies, for they are not intended for the presentation of research papers. specialized themes, or for presenting new work that does not yet admit Workshops are frequently more interactive and informal than sessions of the synthesis called for in a symposium. Sessions may focus, for within the formal scientific program, and are not scheduled concurrently example, on a particular conceptual question, management problem, with symposia, organized oral, contributed oral, or poster sessions. ecological process, or other unifying theme. A strong OOS proposal will Workshops may involve one or several teachers/presenters, and may provide a broad sampling of research in the topical area. OOS’s may include computer-based or other ‘hands-on’ training. Weekend generate ideas for subsequent symposia. Up to (but no more than) eight workshops may be linked with a scientific field trip. Workshop proposals speakers should be invited by session organizers and listed in the should make clear what participants might expect to gain. Limits of proposal; at least two speakers will be added subsequently by the space and time may make it impossible to accommodate all worthy Program Chair from the contributed abstracts. There is no limit on the submissions. number of OOS’s that may be accepted each year. SS: The ESA Annual Meetings include a wide range of events that do OPS: Organized poster sessions are thematically and conceptually not conform to the criteria for the scientific sessions, workshops, or field equivalent to organized oral sessions. Each OPS consists of a set of posters trips. These ‘special sessions’ have included, for example, panel in multiples of 5. A strong OPS proposal will provide a broad sampling of discussions, open discussions, lectures, and film screenings. Special research in the topical area. OPS’s may generate ideas for subsequent sessions can permit extended dialogue, and may be vehicles for symposia. There is no limit on the number of OPS’s that may be accepted planning future events or organizations. Whatever its format, a special each year. Organized poster sessions are scheduled concurrently with the session should have some bearing on ecological science or education, regular poster sessions on specially marked boards. broadly construed. Special sessions are open to all meeting registrants, although a ticket may be required for food or beverages. Saturday, August 3 6:30 am-3:30 pm Field Trips, Workshops, and FT 1 - An Extreme Fire Event in the Border Lakes Business Meetings Region of Northern Minnesota: Ecosystem Impacts and Management Implications of the 2011 8:30 am-5 pm Pagami Creek Fire On the Superior National Forest (OVERNIGHT TRIP) - CANCELLED ESA Governing Board Meeting Level One, Reg Area, 3rd Ave South Lobby, Minneapolis Convention Rochester, Hilton Minneapolis Center Organized by: KA Rusterholz ([email protected]) 5 pm-8 pm SATURDAY ESA SEEDS Student Orientation 7 am-6 pm (SEEDS Students Only) Carlson School of Management Private Dining Rm, FT 2 - University of Notre Dame Environmental University of Minnesota Research Center, Land O’Lakes, WI (OVERNIGHT TRIP) Level One, Reg Area, 3rd Ave South Lobby, Minneapolis Convention Center CANCELLED Organized by: D Tazik ([email protected]), D Hoekman (dhoek- [email protected]), S Newman 33 7:30 am-8 pm 7:30 am-6 pm 8:30 am-5 pm FT 3 - Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park: Rare ESA Governing Board Meeting Bluffland Plant Communities of the Paleozoic Rochester, Hilton Minneapolis Plateau Level One, Reg Area, 3rd Ave South Lobby, Minneapolis Convention Center 12 pm-5 pm Organized by: H Texler ([email protected]) WK 4 - NASA MODIS Remote-Sensing Data Acquisiton SATURDAY and Analysis Tools for Ecology Research 8 am-11:30 am 101A, Minneapolis Convention Center Organized by: T Beaty, D Meyer WK 1 - Learning to e-Volve: Networking, Collaboration, Education and Outreach in the Age of ORNL and LP DAACS will provide workshop participants with training Facebook and Twitter on NASA’s MODIS data products and tools enabling them to find, 101A, Minneapolis Convention Center access, manipulate, subset, and download MODIS data without special knowledge or software experience; as well as how to obtain Organized by: C Wilcox ([email protected]) and work with HDF-EOS data formats. We live in a digital age. Whether we like it or not, social media is an integral part of conducting and disseminating science in today’s Speakers: world. This workshop will explain the complex digital ecosystem, R Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealing how new media platforms can transform collaboration, SS Vannan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory education and outreach. WC Lenhardt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory T Sohre, LP DAAC C Doescher, LP DAAC 8 am-5 pm 5 pm-8 pm WK 2 - Python for Ecologists 101B, Minneapolis Convention Center ESA SEEDS Student Orientation (SEEDS Students Organized by: T Purucker ([email protected]), T Hong Only) Python is a high-level scripting language that is becoming increasingly Carlson School of Management Private Dinning Rm, University of popular for scientific computing. This all-day workshop is designed to Minnesota introduce the basics of Python programming to ecologists. WK 3 - Structural Equation Modeling: An Introduction 101C, Minneapolis Convention Center Organized by: JB Grace ([email protected]), DR Schoolmaster Jr. This workshop provides a basic introduction to structural equation modeling, summarizes the fundamental principles of the methodology, and exposes participants to basic modeling methods and issues; demonstrations and exercises will use the lavaan package in R. Speakers: JB Grace, US Geological Survey 34 8:30 am-9 pm Sunday, August 4 Field Trips, Workshops, Business Meetings and Receptions 8:30 am-12 pm 8 am-11:30 am ESA Governing Board Meeting WK 5 - Data Visualization Using R Rochester, Hilton Minneapolis 101B, Minneapolis Convention Center Organized by: N Zimmerman ([email protected]), A Treden- nick, K Ram 1 pm-2 pm In addition to the large suite of analytical tools available in R, it can ESA Buell/Braun Judges Meeting also produce high-quality figures for publications, presentations, and lab notebooks. This workshop will focus on R’s powerful tools for data 101I, Minneapolis Convention Center visualization, with emphasis on the ggplot2 library (and associated packages for data formatting, plyr and reshape2). 2 pm-5 pm Speakers: N Zimmerman, Stanford University ESA Governing Council Orientation and Reception Duluth, Hilton Minneapolis WK 6 - Developing Research Protocols to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species 101C, Minneapolis Convention Center 3 pm-4 pm Organized by: DA Jensen ([email protected]), R Kinnunen ESA Presider/AV Training Session Researchers and instructors pose risks for spreading potentially 101D, Minneapolis Convention Center terrestrial and aquatic invasive species while conducting work in the field. By attending this training workshop, participants will create protocols that will prevent the spread of invasive species. Participants SUNDAY will receive certification, a training manual, companion video, and CD. 3 pm-5 pm ESA SEEDS Mentor Orientation WK 7 - Get the Job! Early-Career Professional Carlson School of Management Private Dinning Rm, Development in Networking, Accessing Hidden University of Minnesota Career/Job Opportunities, Managing Your Research Reputation, and Partnering with Mentors 101D,
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