APPLIED ECOLOGY SECTION NEWSLETTER

JULY 2003

GREETINGS!

The Applied, Agroecology, Rangelands, and Soil Sections are planning a joint mixer for the ESA 2003 meeting in Savannah, Georgia. The mixer will be held on Wednesday August 6 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, at the Hyatt Regency Savannah, Second Floor, Percival and Verelst Rooms. The Applied Ecology Section will hold a business meeting towards the end of the mixer to discuss business items for the coming year including the establishment of a student award for an outstanding oral paper or poster presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, the development of a 5-year charter, and the 2004 elections.

The Applied Ecology Section has selected Carrie Reinhardt, a PhD student in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota, to receive a $500 Student Travel Award to attend the 88^th ESA Annual Meeting this summer. She will be presenting the paper "Patterns in rhizome carbohydrate fluctuation in the invasive Phalaris arundinacea: implications for wetland restorations."

This year we are also co-sponsoring the symposium “Biogeochemistry of Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems: Local to Regional Linkages and Impacts of Land Use.” Co-sponsors include the USGS, the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, and the Rangeland and Soil Ecology Sections. The symposium will be held Thursday, August 7, 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM on the 2^nd floor of the Savannah Convention Center (SITCC) in the Chatham Ballroom B. The primary focus of this symposium is how land use and land use change affect biogeochemical cycles of grass and shrub lands. Biogeochemical cycles are central to many components of global change and land management, including increases in greenhouse gases, land conversion, and nitrogen deposition. Each speaker will consider local to regional (i.e., scales from plant to plot to ecosystem to region) impacts of land use and conservation on the biogeochemical cycling of three key resources: water, nitrogen, and carbon. The objectives are to explore how land management influences biogeochemical cycles, and to examine linkages (or lack of linkages) at different scales.

Hope to see you in Savannah!

Paulette Ford, Chair

Applied Ecology Section