SYMP 16 - ESA Early Career Fellows and Mercer Award Symposium II

Organizer(s)

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  Charles Nilon

  School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri
  Columbia, Missouri, United States

This symposium will showcase the research of ESA Early Career Fellows and the Mercer Award winner. Early Career Fellows are members recognized for advancing ecological knowledge and for their promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to ecology. The Mercer Award is given by ESA for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication. Talks will span the field of ecology and highlight new directions in ecological research.

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM PDT

  Developing advanced quantitative tools to improve ecological inference and forecasting for wildlife diseases
  

  Presenting Author: Graziella V. DiRenzo – U. S. Geological Survey, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
• 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM PDT

  Forest resilience to fire and interacting disturbances in the northwest US in a period of rapid change
  

  Presenting Author: Brian J. Harvey – University of Washington
• 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

  Global dynamics of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) and gross primary production (GPP) reshaped by plant mesophyll diffusion
  

  Presenting Author: Ying Sun – Cornell University

  Co-author: Ying Sun – Cornell University

  Co-author: Jiameng Lai – Cornell University
• 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM PDT

  Assessing the role of the matrix in supporting bee diversity in natural fragments
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, Entomology – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Co-author: Nicholas Anderson – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 11:20 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

  Discussion