Graduate Student Symposium Draft agenda

Saturday, September 8th

Graduate student travel day
Evening - Graduate student mixer

Sunday, September 9th

8:30-8:40 - Welcome (Kim and Sally)
8:40-9:00 - Brief introduction to the LTER/LNO
9:00-10:00 - Plenary talk on integrating social sciences into ecological research within the LTER network
10:00-10:30 - Coffee break
10:30-11:30 - Three 20-minute talks by graduate students who do cross-discipline ecological research within the LTER network
11:30-12:30 - Panel of LTER investigators who incorporate additional disciplines into LTER research (social science, engineering, chemistry, economics, etc)
12:30-1:30 - Lunch
1:30-3:30 - Graduate student led working group session A (concurrent sessions)
3:30-5:30 - Graduate student led working group session B (concurrent sessions)

• Graduate student working groups will be either two hours in length (fitting within one of the two sessions) or four hours in length (extending over both sessions A and B).
• Working group lengths will be determined by the working group organizers and stated in their proposals.
• We envision working groups which are based on discussing methods/techniques or general ecological patterns across sites/disciplines may be 2 hours in length, while those which will come to ASM with a dataset to be analyzed may be 4 hours in length.
• By splitting the working groups into two sessions, graduate students will have the opportunity to attend several sessions which interest them, rather than having to choose one or the other.