Agenda

Preliminary Conference Agenda
A detailed version of the preliminary meeting agenda, including presentation titles and abstracts, may be downloaded as a PDF. A more general overview is provided here.

The schedule will include AM and PM breaks, lunch, and dinner Monday through Wednesday.  The conference will begin with dinner on Sunday and conclude at 4:00 PM on Thursday. Most participants will arrive Sunday evening and depart Thursday afternoon.

Monday, February 27  
   
8:00 AM Welcome Address
8:15 AM – 8:45 AM Introduction — Conservation and global change: Setting the stage for a new paradigm
8:45 AM – 11:45 AM Symposium I — Protected Areas: Fostering Museums, Way Stations, and Endpoints
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM Symposium II — Preventing Extinctions: Balancing Tradeoffs
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Symposium III — Managing Ecosystem Services: Balancing Utility and Preservation
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Poster Session I
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Keynote Address — Conserving the future vision: The role of U.S. Fish and Wildlife and its National Wildlife Refuge System
 
Tuesday, February 28  
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM Symposium III — Managing Ecosystem Services: Balancing Utility and Preservation
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Symposium IV — Management Outside of Protected Areas: Approaching Alternative Choices
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Poster Session II
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner
Wednesday, February 29
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Plenary
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Working Groups: Parallel ProcessingParticipants will be assigned to small groups to identify emergent themes from the conference.
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Working Groups Report
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Working Groups: Conference ProductsParticipants will be invited to join working groups that will initiate specific products identified in the morning plenary, e.g., articles for peer-reviewed journals, input to an online managers’ resource being developed by ESA staff, and products for educators and policy makers.
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Working Groups continued
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner
Thursday, March 1
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PlenaryProduct ideas from Wednesday will be shared and small working groups will form to develop products
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Working Groups continuedGroups will work on products identified during the Wednesday discussions and the Thursday morning plenary.
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Working Groups continued
 
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Closing Session