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Sustainable Pathways: Learning From the Past and Shaping the Future

In anticipation of the 100th Annual Meeting in 2015, the 98th Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting will look to the past as guidance in understanding and predicting future trends in ecosystem dynamics and services. With the backdrop of the beautiful city of Minneapolis, this meeting will capture the long influence of the ESA on ecology, and will set the stage for events leading to the centennial meeting. Long-term data, from fossil and pollen records, environmental proxies and observations that date in some cases from the early 1900s, provide the historical context and an important baseline for future trajectories. However, the future of Planet Earth is far from certain or predictable based on its past. Global drivers are changing in slope, magnitude, and direction, novel organisms are being introduced or developed, no-analog communities are forming, and humans continue to modify and interact with their environment. Historic legacies provide the template for these complex interactions. Developing and maintaining sustainable trajectories in the midst of these certain, yet highly unpredictable, changes that affect and interact with ecological systems is a critical challenge for ecologists, and provide the theme of the 98th meeting.

Blood Drive

ESA will hold a blood drive in Exhibit Hall B, Aug. 7 from 12pm to 5pm and Aug. 8, from 1pm to 6pm. To make appointments to donate please read the pdf document.

Minneapolis provides an excellent venue for ecologists to meet and discuss sustainable trends in the future of Planet Earth. From green cuisine to green buildings, transportation, and an emphasis on local agriculture, the city is an exemplar for sustainable living. Minneapolis is a good place to learn from past insights of city leaders. Circa 1883 the city (then with 50,000 people) created a parkway system that encircled the city with walking and bike paths, making most of the city’s waterfront on its chain of lakes and the Mississippi River into public space. Today these parks comprise one of the world’s greenest inner city environments, in a metro area with 3,300,000 people, including such gems as the Eloise Butler wildflower garden, and a quaking bog. Minneapolis is set in the midst of a transition across three biomes. There are few cities where one can, within a few hours, reach vast areas of grasslands, deciduous forests, boreal forests, and at least 10,000 lakes. The sustainability issues dealt with by Minnesotans thus range from agricultural practices and water quality to fisheries management and sustained yield forestry.      

Abstracts – Submission Deadlines and Notification Dates

 

Call Open

Submission Deadline

Notification of Acceptance

Notification of Session Scheduling

Contributed Abstracts
(Talks and Posters)

mid Dec., 2012

Feb. 21, 2013

Apr. 18, 2013

May 16, 2013

Symposia
Organized Oral Sessions (OOS)
Organized Poster Sessions (OPS)

Unique submission links will be sent to invited speakers in January 2013.

Feb. 21, 2013

Apr. 18, 2013

Sent to organizers by Feb. 14, 2013. Organizers should notify their speakers.

Latebreaking Posters

early April, 2013

May 9, 2013

June 6, 2013

All Latebreaking posters will be presented on Friday, August 9, 2013.

Sessions – Proposal Submission Deadlines and Notification Dates

 

Call Open

Submission Deadline

Notification of Acceptance

Notification of Session Scheduling

Symposia
Organized Oral Sessions (OOS)
Organized Poster Sessions (OPS)

mid July, 2012

Sept. 13, 2012

Dec. 13, 2012

Feb. 14, 2013

Workshops
Special Sessions
Field Trips
Ignite ESA Sessions

late Sept., 2012

Nov. 29, 2012

Jan. 17, 2013

Feb. 14, 2013