2015 HRC-sponsored Sessions at Annual Meeting – Historical Records Committee

Centennial Meeting of the ESA

In recognition of ESA’s centennial celebration this year, HRC’s program subcommittee, chaired by Juliana Mulroy, has worked with committee members and others to put together the following sessions for the August meeting in Baltimore.

Special Session: Ecology’s Concepts: How Are They Used and Valued?
Monday, August 10, 8-10:00 p.m.
(Organized by William Reiners, with Jeffrey Lockwood, Steven Prager, Derek Reiners)
Symposium: Fostering Transdisciplinary Science to Meet 21st-Century Challenges: How Can Ecology Learn from the ‘Science of Team Science’?
Tuesday, August 11, 1:30-5:00 p.m.
(Organized by S. Kingsland and supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Maryland).
Organized Oral Session: External Influences on Ecological Theory: The Effect of Economic, Sociopolitical, Climatic and Other Conditions.
Thursday, August 13, 1:30-5:00 p.m. (Organized by Michael Huston).

ESA members have been encouraged to address history this year, with the theme of the meeting set as “Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating ESA’s Centennial.” As we learn of other history-related sessions, we will add them here.