Call for Symposium and Organized Oral Session Proposals! 94th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Albuquerque, New Mexico August 2-7, 2009
Deadline for Submission: September 25, 2008 The theme for the ESA Annual Meeting in 2009 is "Ecological Knowledge and a Global Sustainable Society". With fossil fuels waning, a public awareness of global warming and biodiversity issues increasing, and new green technologies breaking into public markets, the world is poised for planning sustainability of a global society. While ecologists continue to be on the forefront of research examining anthropogenic effects on biodiversity and ecosystem function, interdisciplinary studies incorporating ecological knowledge into sustainable planning are lacking. Growing fields of agro-ecology and urban ecology are attempting to develop interdisciplinary links, but all fields of ecological study can offer information toward sustainability, as evidenced in recent books of sustainability and societal collapse. Symposia and Organized Oral Session proposals related to this year’s theme are highly encouraged. Please visit the homepage for next year’s ESA Annual Meeting for additional information: http://www.esa.org/albuquerque. SYMPOSIA are the scientific centerpiece of the meeting. They are limited to half-day sessions (3.5 hours). Individual talks in symposia range from 15 to 30 minutes in length at the discretion of the symposium organizer. Time devoted to synthesis, summary, and discussion is strongly encouraged. This meeting will include 24 symposia, and all proposals will be peer- reviewed. ] For additional information and to begin the submission process, please visit http://www.esa.org/albuquerque/call_symposium.php. ORGANIZED ORAL SESSIONS are organized around a specific topic with most of the speakers invited by the organizer. These sessions are distinguished from symposia in that 1) there is less emphasis on breadth of appeal and overall synthesis; 2) they may be comprised largely of related case studies; 3) talks are set at 15 minutes each, with 5 minutes following for discussion (as in contributed oral sessions); and 4) at least 2 time slots out of the 10 available in an organized oral session are reserved for placing related talks from the contributed abstracts by the Program Chair. Organized oral sessions also are limited to half-day sessions (3.5 hours). There is no set number of accepted Organized Oral Session proposals, and all proposals will be peer-reviewed. For additional information and to begin the submission process, please visit http://www.esa.org/albuquerque/call_oos.php. If you have any questions, please contact Program Chair, Scott Franklin, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or Program Assistant, Aleta Wiley, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
