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ESA’s 97th Annual Meeting Explores Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing and Sustaining our Ecosystems in Portland, Ore.
Aug. 5-10, 2012
Jane Lubchenco, an Oregon State marine ecologist and head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will open the six day meeting with akeynote address on Sunday, August 5th, at 5:00 p.m.
“Guru of old growth” Jerry F. Franklin, professor of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, and ethno-botanist Nancy Turner of the University of Victoria will also present plenary lectures.
The meeting is expected to draw more than 4,300 scientists, policy makers, educators and concerned citizens to share emerging research.
Find registration, program, field trip, and other meeting information is at http://www.esa.org/portland/. Look for symposia and oral presentation titles to be posted in May.
In a break from past policy, presentations will not be embargoed and members of the press are invited to cover research presented at the meeting as soon as abstracts become publically available online.
- Interested press should contact Liza Lester at llester@esa.org or 202-833-8773 #211 to register.
- Access ESA’s scientific journals. For free press access, contact Liza Lester.
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