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ESA Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Newsletter
July 2008

The 2008 ESA annual meeting will be held in Milwaukee on 3–8 August 2008 at the Midwest Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  http://www.esa.org/milwaukee/

URBAN EVENTS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING:

ESA Urban Ecology Section Brown Bag Meeting – Tuesday, August 5, 2007: 11:30 AM–1:15 PM, Wright B, Hilton  – Items to be discussed include Executive Council report, elections, next year’s field trips/symposia in Albuquerque, NM, awards for student travel and presentations, and other section business.  Bring your lunch. 

FT 9 – Snakes, Canoeing, and Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center, Sunday, Aug 3, 9–3:30 PM, West Well St. Entrance, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3726.HTM

FT 13: Urban Forestry, Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Justice, Thurs, Aug 7, 8–1 PM, West Well St. Entrance , Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3730.HTM
$40 Fee includes transportation, breakfast snack and box lunch. Organizer: Charles Nilon, Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, University of Missouri–Columbia

SYMP 4 – Ecology Education and Outreach Programs at North American Field Stations: Natural Resource Islands to Improve Ecological Literacy and Outdoor Learning Experiences for a K–20+ Urbanized Society, Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM–11:30 AM, 102 C, Midwest Airlines Center http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S2807.HTM

SYMP 20 – Using Urban Ecological Research as a Tool for Enhancing Ecological Literacy, Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM–5:00 PM, 104 A, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S2725.HTM

COS 121 – Urban Ecology, Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM–11:30 AM, 102 A, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3345.HTM

SS 7 – Studying Chicago Wilderness: An Urban Conservation Model as a Regional Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Monday, August 4, 2008: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM, 104 A, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3163.HTM

PS 52 – Urban Ecosystems, Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 5:00 PM–6:30 PM, Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3470.HTM

PS 88 – Latebreaking: Urban Ecology, Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:30 AM–10:30 AM, Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/techprogram/S3787.HTM

Travel Awards – This year the Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section sponsored three, student–travel awards of $300/each.  Each applicant was asked to submit his/her abstract, a letter of need, and a letter of reference.  We received a number of great applications which made the decision process very difficult.  This year’s recipients and their presentations are:

Sonja Djuricin, University of California, Irvine
PS 52–175: A comparison of atmospheric methods for determining the sources of atmospheric CO2 in urban ecosystems

Charles Hofer, Rutgers University New Brunswick
PS 52–174: If you build it, will they stay? Using passerine nestlings as bioindicators of heavy metal accumulation at a former brownfield site

Yvette Williams, University of Maryland Baltimore County
PS 52–171: Investigating vegetation dynamics of vacant lots and community gardens in an urban watershed
Please congratulate these students when you visit their posters!

Nominations for Urban Ecology Section Officers – Terms for the current section officers Wayne Zipperer (Chair), Paige Warren (Vice–Chair), and Paul Mayer (Secretary/Treasurer) end after the annual meeting in Milwaukee in August.  Please submit names and contact information of nominees to Wayne Zipperer
(wzipperer@fs.fed.us).  Nominees and voting details will be announced via email to members after the meeting.  Duties of the officers are described in the bylaws available at http://www.esa.org/urbanecosystem/

Meetings and calls for abstracts

Also visit http://www.unri.org/iufro for more details on the following events.

Final Conference of COST Action E39 ‘Forests, Trees and Human Health and
Wellbeing’, Hamar, Norway, 28–30 August 2008 – This final conference of an interesting research network that has focused on the contributions of forests and trees to human health and wellbeing is open to all.  http://www.e39.ee/?Conferences:Hamar–Elverum_conference

ECLAS conference: ‘New Landscapes – New Lives, New Challenges in Landscape
Planning, Design and Management’, Alnarp, Sweden, 11–14 September 2008 – A draft programme for this event, organised under the umbrella of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, is now available at http://www.ltj.slu.se/eclas/

‘The Landscape Below Ground III Conference’, Lisle (near Chicago), Illinois, USA, October 6–8, 2008 – Latest research and management practices on all aspects of tree root development in urban soils. http://www.LandscapeBelowGround.org.

Third ASEM Symposium on Urban Forestry, Guangzhou, China, November 12–13, 2008 – Please note that the event is only open to experts from the 17 Asian and 28 European ASEM member states. http://www.lknet.ac.cn/asemUF3.htm

Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Board
Wayne Zipperer – Chair (wzipperer@fs.fed.us)
Paige Warren – Vice–Chair (pswarren@forwild.umass.edu)
Paul Mayer – Secretary (mayer.paul@epa.gov)

www.esa.org/urbanecosystem/