Welcome and Greetings: Katherine S. McCarter, ESA Executive Director
Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Sunny Power, ESA President
Keynote Speaker: Sandra L. Postel, Director, Global Water Policy Project.
Author of Last Oasis, Pillar of Sand, and (co-author) Rivers for Life.
Title: Strategies to sustain earth's freshwater ecosystems

Welcome and Greetings: Katherine S. McCarter, ESA Executive Director
Presider: Sunny Power, ESA President
Presentation of 2009 ESA Awards
Keynote Speaker: Monica Turner, ESA MacArthur Lecturer
Dept of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world

Presider: Scott Franklin, ESA Program Chair
Keynote Speaker: Diane Pataki, Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth System Science and Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
Title: Urban ecosystem services: Advances and uncertainties