Call for Proposals: Symposium, Organized Oral Session, and Organized Poster Session
96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Austin, Texas August 7-12, 2011 http://www.esa.org/austin Deadline for Submission: September 16, 2010 The theme for the ESA Annual Meeting in 2011 is "Planetary stewardship: Preserving and enhancing earth's life-support systems". Human society currently faces global-scale issues including climate change, loss of biodiversity, population pressures, food production, energy acquisition, and resource use that threaten earth's life-support systems. Resolution of these issues will require integration of knowledge from many sources and simultaneous consideration of multiple problems, in contrast to the individualistic approach to problems commonly used in the past. Ecologists are challenged to provide a scientific basis for addressing these issues and to lead in developing a sense of planetary stewardship. Symposium, Organized Oral Session, and Organized Poster Session proposals related to the meeting's theme are highly encouraged, but any timely and coherent subject of broad interest will be considered. We also welcome proposals that explore interdisciplinary connections with areas of social and natural science outside of ecology or that relate to ecological education at any level. Please visit the homepage for the 2011 ESA Annual Meeting for additional information: http://www.esa.org/austin SYMPOSIA are the scientific centerpiece of the meeting. They are limited to half-day sessions (3.5 hours). Individual talks in symposia range from 15 to 30 minutes in length at the discretion of the symposium organizer. Time devoted to synthesis, summary, and discussion is strongly encouraged. This meeting will include 24 symposia, and all proposals will be peer-reviewed. For additional information and to begin the submission process, please visit: http://esa.org/austin/symposium_proposals.php ORGANIZED ORAL SESSIONS are organized around a specific topic with most of the speakers invited by the organizer. These sessions are distinguished from symposia in that 1) there is less emphasis on breadth of appeal and overall synthesis; 2) they may be comprised largely of related case studies; 3) talks are set at 15 minutes each, with 5 minutes following for discussion (as in contributed oral sessions); and 4) at least 2 time slots out of the 10 available in an organized oral session are reserved for the Program Chair to place related talks from the contributed abstracts. Organized oral sessions are limited to half-day sessions (3.5 hours). There is no set number of accepted Organized Oral Session proposals for the meeting, and all proposals will be peer-reviewed. For additional information and to begin the submission process, please visit: http://esa.org/austin/oral_proposals.php ORGANIZED POSTER SESSIONS are sets of posters (in multiples of 5) organized around a specific topic. Presenters are invited by the organizer. Organized poster sessions will be scheduled during one of the regular poster sessions at the annual meeting. All posters in each organized poster session will be placed as a group in a designated area of the exhibit hall. For additional information and to begin the submission process, please visit: http://esa.org/austin/poster_proposals.php If you have any questions, please contact the Program Chair, Tom Jurik, at ju...@iastate.edu, or the Program Coordinator, Jennifer Riem, at jenni...@esa.org. Jennifer Riem Science Programs Coordinator Ecological Society of America jenni...@esa.org 202.833.8773 x 218
