2024 Conference Schedule – The Great Lakes Chapter of the ESA

Friday April 5, 2024

Time	Session	Location type	Location
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM	No Host Social	Offsite	The Old Goat Tavern – 2731 W Michigan Ave.

Western Michigan University, Fentzer Center

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https://www.fetzercenterbymillennium.com/directions

Parking:

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Time	Session	Location type	Location
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	Chapter Meeting	Fetzer Center	TBA
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM	Continental Breakfast	Fetzer Center	Lobby
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katie Stuble (Holden Arboretum)	Fetzer Center	Kirsch Auditorium
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM	Oral Session 1	Fetzer Center	Kirsch Auditorium
	Oral Session 2		Room 1035
	Oral Session 3		Room 1045
	Oral Session 4		Room 1055
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Break and Pick Up Lunch Box	Fetzer Center	Lobby
12:00 PM – 1:40 PM	Workshop I: Best practices in reproduceable R workflows for ecological data analysis and visualization	Fetzer Center	Room 1035
	Workshop II: Intro to QGIS and Open Source Ecology Tools		Room 1045
	Workshop III: Breaking the 4th Wall: Secrets of science communication from museums, movies and memory		Room 1055
1:40 PM – 1:45 PM	Transition to Sessions	Fetzer Center
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM	Oral Session 5	Fetzer Center	Kirsch Auditorium
	Oral Session 6		Room 1035
	Oral Session 7		Room 1045
	Oral Session 8		Room 1055
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Break	Fetzer Center	Lobby
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM	Oral Session 9	Fetzer Center	Kirsch Auditorium
	Oral Session 10		Room 1035
	Oral Session 11		Room 1045
	Oral Session 12		Room 1055
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM	Poster Session	Fetzer Center	Lobby
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM	No Host Social	Offsite	Bell’s Eccentric Cafe – 355 E Kalamazoo Ave

Time	Session	Location type	Location
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Field Trip – Sponsored by Western Michigan University	Offsite	W.K. Kellogg Biological Station