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2024 Conference Schedule

Friday April 5, 2024

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

Saturday April 6, 2024

   
Western Michigan University, Fentzer Center
Directions:   https://www.fetzercenterbymillennium.com/directions
Parking:   https://www.fetzercenterbymillennium.com/parking

 

Time Session Location type Location
8:00 AM
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9:00 AM		 Chapter Meeting Fetzer Center TBA
8:00 AM
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9:30 AM		 Continental Breakfast Fetzer Center Lobby
9:30 AM
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10:30 AM		 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katie Stuble (Holden Arboretum) Fetzer Center Kirsch Auditorium
10:45 AM

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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
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12:00 PM		 Break and Pick Up Lunch Box Fetzer Center Lobby
12:00 PM
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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
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1:45 PM		 Transition to Sessions Fetzer Center  
1:45 PM
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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
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3:00 PM		 Break Fetzer Center Lobby
3:00 PM
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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
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5:30 PM		 Poster Session Fetzer Center Lobby
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM		 No Host Social Offsite Bell’s Eccentric Cafe – 355 E Kalamazoo Ave

 

Sunday April 7, 2024

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