Call for Symposium and Organized Oral Session Proposals 95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 1-6, 2010 http://www.esa.org/pittsburgh
Deadline for Submission: September 24, 2009 The theme for the ESA Annual Meeting in 2010 is "Global Warming: The legacy of our past, the challenge for our future". Increases in surface temperatures on a global scale over recent decades support past predictions of global warming as a theory. Although this pattern may be attributable to long-term cycles in global temperatures and atmospheric CO2, data sets examining climate phenomena at multi-millennial time scales (e.g., the Lake Vostok data) clearly demonstrate that current trends are far out of range of cyclic change alone. The accumulation of such data has led the United National Environment Programmes Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the unavoidable conclusion: human activity has brought about unprecedented rates of temperature increase on a global scale through release of greenhouse gases primarily associated with combustion of fossil fuels. Symposia and Organized Oral Session proposals related to this years theme are highly encouraged. Please visit the homepage for next years ESA Annual Meeting for additional information: http://www.esa.org/pittsburgh. 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/pittsburgh/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/pittsburgh/call_oosp.php. If you have any questions, please contact the Program Chair, Frank Gilliam, at [email protected], or the Program Assistant, Aleta Wiley, at [email protected].
