Media Tip Sheet: Food Systems and Agriculture
Presentations at the 105th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America featuring research on the ecology of agricultural systems and the environmental changes that affect food security worldwide.
July 28, 2021
For Immediate Release
Contact: Heidi Swanson, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, gro.asenull@idieh
ESA is offering complimentary registration at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America for press and institutional public information officers (see credential policy). The meeting will feature live plenaries, panels and Q&A sessions from August 2–6, 2021. To apply for press registration, please contact ESA Public Information Manager Heidi Swanson at gro.asenull@idieh.
All live discussion times are in Pacific Daylight Time (U.S. West Coast).
On-Demand Talks with Live Discussion
Engineering seed-soil microbiome coalescence to promote plant health
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Marie Simonin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Policy Solidarity: Why We Should Be Thinking About Wildlife and Human Health As One
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: Summer Traylor, Portland State University
Smallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: Caroline Ward, University of York
Adapting agroecosystems to climate change
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Presenter: Nathaniel D. Mueller, Colorado State University
Forecasting and monitoring plant-available N supply in organic vegetable cropping systems
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 1:30 PM –2:30 PM
Presenter: Dan Sullivan, Oregon State University
Impacts of conservation management practices on plant nitrogen availability and greenhouse gas emissions for organic vegetables
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Presenter: Guihua Chen, University of Maryland
RegenerateLA and LA’s Green New Deal
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Presenter: Michelle Barton, City of Los Angeles
Using Osteometrics and Geometric Morphometrics to Explore Ancient Cattle Population Dynamics in Colonial Spanish America
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Presenter: Nicolas DelSol, University of Florida
Governing Nutrient Pollution Beyond Farmers
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: David R. Kanter, New York University
Agroecology: A path to reach out environmental justice in peasant territories
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Alejandra Guzman Luna, University of Vermont
Challenges of the oil palm sector in Cameroon and sustainable production options
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: Raymond Ndip Nkongho, University of Buea
Enacting Everyday Resistance: Food and Agricultural Practices of Mexican Migrant Farmworker Women in North Carolina
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Emila Cordero Oceguera, North Carolina State University
Life in the Plantationocene: Biodiversity conservation and political ecologies in shade grown coffee plantations in Mexico
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Esteli Jimenez-Soto, University of California, Santa Cruz
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM
Presenter: Melissa K. Nelson, Arizona State University
Biogas production and digestate quality of diet-influenced food waste in anaerobic digestion
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Presenter: Emily Nungesser, Ohio University
Preaching to more than the choir: Obstacles to communicating broadly about pollinator conservation
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: Lara G. Zwarun, University of Missouri – St. Louis
A trait-based framework for predicting foodborne pathogen spillover from wild birds
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Presenter: Daniel Karp, University of California, Davis
The potential for bats to provide biodiversity-based ecosystem services in agriculture
Live discussion: Wednesday, August 4, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Presenter: Erin McHale, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
How do Midwest farmers perceive soil health management? Using qualitative interviews to understand attitudes about, expected benefits from, and the practices used to improve soil quality
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Rachel M. Irvine, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
Bottom-up food-web impacts of commercial-scale resource harvest on coastal bird communities
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Elliot M. Johnston, University of Maine
Native floral strips fill seasonal resource gaps supporting pollinators in horticultural settings
Live discussion: Wednesday, August 4, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Presenter: Lena Alice Schmidt, Western Sydney University
Evaluating non-insecticidal pest control tools in citrus agroecosystems
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Presenter: Angela Chuang, University of Florida
Farmland diversification shapes bird-mediated trade-offs and synergies
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Presenter: Elissa M. Olimpi, Virginia Tech
Hot moments drive extreme nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural peatlands
Live discussion: Wednesday, August 4, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Presenter: Tyler L. Anthony, University of California, Berkeley
Microbiome effects on maize form and function under altered watering conditions
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Kelsey R. Carter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
On-Demand Posters with Live Discussion
Contamination of pollinator conservation habitats in Illinois with neonicotinoids
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Shih-Huai Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lost phenotypes: Exploring the role of maize history and breeding in rhizosphere nitrification suppression
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Sierra Raglin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The effects of agriculture on fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River System through archaeological and modern time periods
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Lyric S. Buxton, Samford University
The current state of urban agriculture and extension and research needs in the Northeast U.S
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Megan J. Thompson, University of the District of Columbia
Oak trees on California rangeland ameliorate microclimate and may reduce cattle heat stress in a warmer future
Live discussion: Monday, August 2, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Amber Kerr, University of California, Berkeley
Seasonal changes in transmission of and recovery from Hyalophysa lynni in commercial shrimp
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Megan Tomamichel, University of Georgia
Broad-scale climate drivers of a vector-borne disease expansion from Mexico into the United States
Live discussion: Tuesday, August 3, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
Presenter: Heather M. Savoy, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range & Jornada Basin LTER
Drought tolerant seed use in the Eastern Corn Belt: Using seed dealer interviews to understand the lack of adoption
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Presenter: Victoria M. Seest, Indiana University
Evaluating the socio-hydrological dynamics of water reuse adoption by farmers using an agent based model
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Presenter: Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland-College Park
Biochar amendment influenced distribution of soil organic matter fractions: A climate-smart approach to ensure food security
Live discussion: Thursday, August 5, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Presenter: Debjani Sihi, Emory University
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