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Monday,
August 8,
2:40
PM
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5 PM
, Meeting Rooms 710a and 710b,
Level 7, Palais des congrès de Montréal
Opening Video: Powers of Ten
Welcome, Introductions, and Acknowledgements by ESA President Jerry Melillo
90th Anniversary celebration, President Jerry Melillo and Past President Gene E.
Likens
Introduction of Incoming President, and Introduction of Past ESA Presidents
ESA Awards Ceremony with presentations by Judi Bronstein, Awards Committee Chair
MacArthur Lecture by Dr. May Berenbaum
The Opening Plenary kicks off the 90th ESA Annual Meeting on Monday with
ceremony, humor, insight, and science. Join us to honor those who have forged
the history of the Ecological Society of America and whose dedication has made
this Annual Meeting possible.
To set the stage for the theme of this meeting, Powers of Ten –a famous film
created by Charles and Ray Eames and narrated by Gregory Peck–will take us on an
adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a lakeside picnic in Chicago , this film
will transport us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we will
view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is
visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to planet Earth
with breathtaking speed, we will move inward, into the hand of the sleeping
picnicker, with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey will
end inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood
cell.
Following the film will be special acknowledgements of the Program Co-Chairs,
Paul Ringold and Rebecca Sharitz; the Local Host Co-Chairs, Catherine Potvin and
Christian Messier; and their Local Host Committee. ESA President Jerry Melillo
will also provide remarks on the occasion of 90th anniversary of the founding of
the Ecological Society of America. Past Presidents of the Society have been
invited to participate in the anniversary celebration and Gene E. Likens will
offer his reflections about the society’s history and evolution.
These activities will be followed by the ESA Awards Ceremony honoring recipients
of the Eminent Ecologist Award, Distinguished Service Citation, Corporate
Award, Mercer Award, Cooper Award, Odum Education Award, Honorary Member Award,
and Sustainability Science Award.
The program will conclude with the MacArthur Lecture given by Dr. May Berenbaum
entitled “From the ‘tangled bank’ to Genbank: Multi-scale approaches to
plant/insect interactions”.
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