July 12 is the last day to register for the 2018 Annual Meeting before higher on-site prices take effect. Register by 5:00 PM EDT tomorrow to save!
----------- Extending the Tent: A New vision for Membership of the Ecological Society of America Tuesday, August 7, 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM / Room 353 Attend this town-hall style event to learn about efforts to create a more inclusive, diverse, supportive and engaged ESA. Add your input on the vision for ESA's membership for the next 20 years, and the strategies that ESA will get us there. Learn more: https://eco.confex.com/eco/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session14314.html ------------ Field Trips to Give Back to the Hosting City Field Trip 10: Giving Back to New Orleans Sunday, August 5, 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM ESA is partnering with the Acorn Farm to offer our attendees a hands-on opportunity to give back to the community hosting us this year. The Acorn Farm is an organic, non-profit urban farm and community space, dedicated to creating a community built around food access and education. Volunteers will support this organization in their mission by engaging in a range of gardening activities including planting, seeding, and weeding. https://eco.confex.com/eco/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session14991.html Field Trip 7: Service Learning Day at Bayou St. John Urban Marsh Tuesday, August 7, 9:00 AM - 1:15 PM The Urban marsh at the mouth of Bayou St. John is a living classroom and a laboratory for restoration. It also serves as a filter for pollution that enters the lake from the city of New Orleans. Guests will learn about the bayou and its importance to the city while participating in a service cleaning up litter at the marsh. And they will also learn about the history of the lakefront area and what is being done to save Louisiana's disappearing coast. https://eco.confex.com/eco/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session14243.html Be sure to sign up for Field Trip 7 and Field Trip 10 when registering for the conference as slots are limited and filling quickly! ---------- Plenary Sessions Meet our Plenary Speakers and mark your calendar for the sessions. All plenary sessions will be held at La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. For more information on the Plenary Sessions: https://esa.org/neworleans/program/plenary-speakers/ Opening Plenary Sunday, August 5, 5:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Robert R. Twilley, Louisiana State University Ecosystem design approaches in a highly engineered landscape of the Mississippi River Delta Scientific Plenary and ESA Awards Session Monday, August 6, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Ariel E. Lugo, Int'l Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service Adaptations and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems to Extreme Events: Examples from the Caribbean Recent Advances Lecture Wednesday, August 8, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Guest Lecturer: Lauren E. Culler, Dartmouth College Mosquitoes in the Arctic: Indicators of rapid change in coupled human and natural ecosystems New Phytologist Trust Keynote Speaker Monday, August 6, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Guest Lecturer: David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Lab Cuvettes and flux towers in the sky: the promise of contemporary remote sensing for planetary plant science ---------- BECOME A MEMBER and get the BEST DEAL on Registration Members receive exclusive pricing on registration for the Annual Meeting, discounts to publish in ESA's 6 journals, unlimited access to all our journals, and connection to a growing, global community of 9,000 ecologists. If you are not an ESA member yet, join now! https://eservices.esa.org/
